Grant Program
Deshpande Center funding enables faculty and their students to pursue exciting new avenues of market-driven research and participate in partnerships and programs that will help accelerate the process towards commercialization.

Catalyst Program
Volunteers from the business community are central to achieving the Deshpande Center 's mission of helping MIT innovators achieve market impact.

i-Teams Course
i-Teams is a collaborative effort between the Deshpande Center and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Each semester, we select several research projects and build high performance student teams for each; the students evaluate commercial feasibility and develop go-to-market strategies for the innovations.

Events
The Deshpande Center hosts a variety of events to bring together minds from the MIT and business communities. .

Innovation Calendar
We've created a comprehensive calendar of events beyond the Deshpande Center associated with entrepreneurship, innovation and invention. Please return often to view updates.

X PRIZE Lab
Founded in 2007, the X PRIZE Lab @ MIT partners with the X PRIZE Foundation to engage leading thinkers in helping recognize areas that are ripe for breakthrough innovation. MIT students and faculty explore the strengths of prize philanthropy with academic rigor and the excitement of the X PRIZE model is used as an anchor for engaging youth in the world's biggest challenges.