A Unique Opportunity for Students to build effective "Commercialization Strategies" for cutting-edge MIT Technologies
i-Teams is offered each semester - Apply Now!
Are you interested in guiding cutting-edge inventions from the laboratory towards the marketplace? Are you committed to ensuring that inventions have a powerful economic and social impact? Are you someone who enjoys working in a diverse team with leading researchers from preeminent labs at MIT and beyond?
i-Teams (short for "Innovation Teams") is a unique MIT course that guides student teams as they undertake commercial due diligence for scientific and engineering breakthroughs from a range of disciplines. By collaborating with faculty and students in leading research lab, mentors from the business community and fellow students you will assess the economic and social prospects of the innovation and develop your insights into a thorough understanding of the technical and market risks, the key commercial milestones and recommendations of the most effective commercialization strategy.
Project work is supported by lectures that focus on building the tools needed for the thorough and analytically-grounded commercial due diligence of promising early-stage inventions: Assessment of key market opportunities, the market and technical risks of these opportunities, and the commercial risks shaping likely competitive advantage. Lectures will also analyze factors shaping the most effective commercialization strategies including existing industry structure, distribution channels and IP strategy. Guidance will be provided in assessing critical commercialization milestones such as prototype requirements, initial customer relationships, timing of licensing and IP strategy.
You will be coached throughout the process by faculty director Professor Fiona Murray (Associate Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center), lecturer Dr. Luis Perez-Breva and our TAs. Together we will determine technological directions and identify the most effective product markets. The course is supported by the Deshpande Center whose window into MIT's early-stage research ideas is the source of most i-Teams projects. i-Teams is also supported by the MIT Entrepreneurship Center .
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