The 2012 IdeaStream Symposium featured technological developments that could hit the
market someday. Presenter Doug Hart and researcher Gabe Kwong were featured on the
May 8 WGBH segment, Greater Boston.
June 28, 2010 In The News
A recent NY Times article, "The Idea Incubator Goes to Campus", discusses how visionaries, researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs, are all working together to move technology 'from the lab to the marketplace' at the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation.
May 28, 2010 In The News Can a 'tattoo' help diabetics track their blood sugar? In the Department of Chemical Engineering, Prof. Michael Strano and postdoctoral researcher, Paul Barone, are experimenting with carbon nanotubes that could be injected under the skin to reveal blood glucose levels. This research is being funded by the Deshpande Center. Read the full article on the MIT News Office site.
May 21, 2010 In The News Prof. Chris Love, of the Department of Chemical Engineering, believes that there is a better way to diagnose food allergies. One of his projects, funded in part by the Deshpande Center, involves a new technology that can analyze individual immune cells taken from patients, allowing for precise measurement of the cells' response to allergens such as milk and peanuts. To learn about this project read the MIT News Office article.
May 20, 2010 In The News Hear ye, hear ye! Prof. Doug Hart, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and his research team are developing 3-D imaging technology, funded by the Deshpande Center, that could lead to hearing aids that fit — and thus function — better than current models. To learn about this project read the MIT News Office article.
March, 2010 In The News Call for entries - DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday, March 5. Share your great idea at the Innovation Showcase at IdeaStream 2010. The Deshpande Center is providing an opportunity for MIT researchers to pitch their innovative technology ideas to the high level, invitation-only, audience at the Innovation Showcase at our IdeaStream Symposium on April 13, 2010 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. The Innovation Showcase is a session that offers early-stage ideas to get market feedback at the research stage. At IdeaStream '10 you can get visibility for your work, make connections, and get real-world feedback on how you can commercialize your idea. Chosen applicants must participate in a "Practice Pitch Session" during which they will receive coaching/advice on presenting at the Innovation Showcase. Submission guidelines are available online or you can download the application here. The application deadline is this Friday, March 5, 1020.
January 11, 2010 Around Campus The Deshpande Center is excited to be co-sponsoring, with the Lemelson-MIT Program, the following IAP 2010 event: Ideas to Impact: Bringing Inventions to Market.
This panel discussion and networking event will focus on MIT resources available to faculty, students, and collaborators who have great ideas and inventions, and a desire to bring them to the marketplace. The panel is comprised of MIT faculty, alumni/ae, and staff who are either innovators or who actively engage in moving technology "from the lab to the marketplace", or both. Save the date of Wednesday, January 27, from 4:00-6:00 pm in 4-270.
December 18, 2009 In The News
The founder of the Deshpande Center, Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, and the many roles that he enjoys - serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, mentor, and board member to name a few - are featured in this recent livemint.com (WSJ) article.
November 6, 2009 In The News Follow us on Twitter!
The Deshpande Center already has a few followers on Twitter, since it started tweeting in May, 2009. During that period it has tried to gain familiarity with one of the most currently popular social media tools; all is still very much a work-in-progress.
October 7, 2009 In The News Ten innovations that may improve our quality of life - and possibly bring down health care costs - are discussed in a recent article called The Future of the Human Body featured in Inc.magazine. Two of the ten, innovations that were developed, in part, with grants awarded by the Deshpande Center, have spun-out into companies: Myomo and Taris Biomedical.
September, 2009 In The News
Professors Donald Sadoway and Daniel Nocera on PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - In a segment called "Better Storage Options Sought as Wind, Sun Power Catch on", Deshpande Center grantee Prof. Don Sadoway, Materials Science and Engineering and Prof. Daniel Nocera, Chemistry, discussed new innovations that would allow for better storage of electricity generated by the wind and sun. Prof. Sadoway's focus is on large-scale energy storage batteries, while Prof. Nocera researches novel approaches that might impact the hydrogen economy. Links to the video, audio, and transcript are all available to this segment; originally broadcast on Tuesday, September 22, 2009.
June, 2009 In The News Recent Deshpande Center Spin-out, Taris Biomedical, Garners Attention from Local VC Firms -
During the Spring 2006 grant cycle, the Desphande Center funded Professor Michael Cima, of MIT's Materials Science and Engineering department, and faculty director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, to develop his idea for a drug delivery device that would administer medication directly to the bladder over an extended time period. At the end of the one year grant period he had shown a successful proof of concept with an early prototype, and was awarded a renewal grant to develop a more advanced prototype and undertake testing in animals.
These experiments provided compelling data on the likely efficacy of a device for human use. Prof. Cima, along with MIT colleague, Prof. Robert S. Langer, subsequently founded a new company, Taris Biomedical. Their start-up will commercialize the technology and develop clinical products and has successfully raised capital of $15 million by investors such as Flagship Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners and Polaris Venture Partners. Click here for a downloadable pdf of the article.
June, 2009 In The News A Cheap Route to Robust LEDs - Professor Karen Gleason, of MIT's Chemical Engineering department, recently spoke about her innovative research in inorganic/organic light emitting diodes (LEDs) not only at IdeaStream '09, but also in a conversation with Technology Review journalist Anne-Marie Corley. Prof. Gleason, along with postdoctoral associate, Sreeram Vaddiraju, discussed the impact of their solution to the problem of expensive and vulnerable organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) - a hybrid light-emitting diode, or HLED. Click here for a downloadable pdf of the article.
June, 2009 In The News
The Final Frontier: Technologies for an Aging Population. Those who attended the 2009 IdeaStream Symposium on June 9 will recognize this title from one of our more popular and well-attended Ignition Forum panels. Moderated by MIT professor and director of the MIT AgeLab, Joseph F. Coughlin, the discussion explored the development of innovative products and services and how they will hopefully sustain and enhance increased life expentancies. Read an accompanying article written by journalist Virginia Rohan,of The Record who attended IdeaStream.
June, 2009 Video
A conversation with Desh Deshpande - In this video conversation, Desh Deshpande, co-founder and chairman of Sycamore Networks Inc., talks about his life as an entrepreneur, the multi-disciplinary approach of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, and how innovative philanthropy is making the world better. Video courtesy of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
May, 2009 In The News Call for entries - DEADLINE EXTENDED to Wednesday, May 13. Share your great idea at the Innovation Showcase at IdeaStream 2009.
The Deshpande Center is providing an opportunity for MIT researchers to pitch their innovative technology ideas to the high level, invitation-only, audience at the Innovation Showcase at our IdeaStream Symposium on June 09, 2009 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. The Innovation Showcase is a session that offers early-stage ideas to get market feedback at the research stage.
At IdeaStream '09 you can get visibility for your work, make connections, and get real-world feedback on how you can commercialize your idea.
Chosen applicants must participate in a "Practice Pitch Session" during which they will receive coaching/advice on presenting at the Innovation Showcase.
Submission guidelines are available online or you can download the application here. The application deadline is Wednesday, May 13, 2009.
April 2009 Newsletter The April Newsletter is Now Online...Deshpande Center Grantees' Research Included in Major Publications; By The Numbers; 8th IdeaStream Symposium; Staff Updates.
February, 2009 In The News
Leon Sandler shares news of a recent report by the Kauffman Foundation that reinforces the importance of universities in driving entrepreneurial growth, as carried out, for example, by the activities of the Deshpande Center. The findings show the massive impact that MIT has on technological innovation and the formation of new technology companies. Professor Ed Roberts was in Washington, DC on Tuesday, February 17, and presented his results to a committee on University Policy at the National Academy of Sciences and to an assembled group of Congressional staffers, media, Washington contacts, and MIT friends. Take time to read both the Kauffman Foundation report and the accompanying press release.
January, 2009 In The News
Deshpande Center grantee alum (Spring 2006) Sarah Bird is happy to report that her spin-out company, SaafWater, is featured in a program called World Vision Report. You can listen to the 10 minute audio segment here and the World Vision Report team will be checking in with SaafWater periodically over the coming year to follow their progress and document their journey as a young company. SaafWater (Saaf is the Urdu/Hindi word for clean) is a company in Pakistan, founded by Sarah Bird, that sells chlorine tablets directly to the public so people can purify their water themselves.
December, 2008 In The News
The X PRIZE Lab, an affiliate of the Deshpande Center, has a new 'cyber home' under the Activities section of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation website. Dr. Erika Wagner, the Lab's founding executive direction is now accepting applications for the X PRIZE Lab's spring 2009 course and encouraing participation in an exciting January '09 IAP course titled, "Deep Dive" workshop.
November, 2008 In The News Lucinda Linde '82, SM '83 is the recent recipient of a 2008
Harold E. Lobdell '17 Distinguished Service Award. The Lobdell Award recognizes service to the Alumni Association and MIT that is of significant depth over a sustained period. One area in which Ms. Linde makes significant contributions to the MIT community is to the Deshpande Center, in her volunteer role as a Catalyst. She dedicates her time and expertise in mentoring various grantees through the stages of innovation to commercialization and we congratulate her on her recent achievement. Well done Lucinda!
July, 2008 In The News Brontes, a 3M company that was founded by Deshpande Center past grantee Professor Doug Hart, received a Bronze-level award at the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the "Medical & Scientific" category. Their innovative product, called the 3M ESPE Lava™ Chairside Oral Scanner C.O.S.,
is a digital dental impression system that captures continuous 3D video images to create precise 3D dental models. Intended to be used by dentists and hygienists, the scanner will
eliminate the discomfort of traditional methods and improve communication between patients and dentists by allowing immediate chair-side, real-time, review. Congratulations!
June, 2008 In The News Setting Up Camp - VC Style Leon Sandler comments on the
growing status of the entrepreneur in American life, in a Business Week article about Highland Capital Partners' unique summer program.
May, 2008 In The News Environmental Clean-up with 'Paper Towels'? MIT develops a 'paper towel' - i.e. nanowire mesh - for oil spills through the research of Spring '07 grantee Prof. Francesco Stellacci and his collaborators.
May, 2008 In The News Pomp and Cirumstance The Center's founding donor, Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, received an honorary degree at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Commencement on Saturday, May 31.
May, 2008 In The News Thinking Small Could Pay Off Big Professor Carol Livermore discusses, with The Boston Globe, her research in, progress with, and the impact of carbon nanotubes.
April, 2008 In The News Returning the Gift MITalum Mark Gorenberg (EE '76), Managing Director of Hummer Winblad, speaks to the Spectrum about giving back to the Institute and the Deshpande Center.
March 28, 2008 In The News 'Well-Centered' Approaching his 2-year anniversary with the Deshpande Center, Leon Sandler chats with the Boston Business Journal.
March 5, 2008 In The News Magnanti on MIT's 'Learning by Doing' Imperative Interview with Tom Magnanti, Institute Professor, former Dean of the School of Engineering and Deshpande Center Steering Committee Member.
February 2008 Newsletter The February Newsletter is Now Online....Deshpande Center - Subject of Study by the Kauffman Foundation, feature article in Science Business - Fall 2007, FDA Success for Myomo - a Deshpande Center Spin-out
November 15, 2007 In The News IInnovation: It takes a village Leon Sandler, Executive Director, discusses how the Deshpande Center ecosystem works.
July 10, 2007 In The News
Myomo (a Deshpande Center Spin-out) Receives FDA Clearance to Market the Myomo e100 NeuroRobotic System. Wearable and portable, Myomo's first product allows individuals to self initiate and control movement of partially paralyzed limbs using their own biological signals | Click here
June 2007 Video MIT ZigZag Episode #16: Learn how entrepreneurship is at the core of the MIT culture. From the 100K Competition, Deshpande Center, Enterprise Forum, Venture Mentoring Service and more, see how students, faculty, and alumni are part of the ecosystem.
June 2007 Newsletter The June Newsletter is Now Online....Deshpande Project Runner-up in the 100K Business Plan Competition, Deshpande Funded X-Ray Technology featured in Technology Review, Fall 2007 i-Teams projects, Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc., named to Red Herring 100
