Forbes October 9, 2024
In a recent conversation between MIT President Sally Kornbluth, Massachusetts Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development Yvonne Hao and others, participants talked about the ongoing movement to drive cutting-edge research at MIT, and throughout the state of Massachusetts.
Brainstorming on how innovators look for the big things to solve, the group spoke about the process of funding, and how projects get done, how a state develops into a regional economy, and how academia works with business.
As some pointed out, there’s a need to balance government needs with the needs of academia, and to assess the role that the private sector plays in both of those.
And Massachusetts, they agreed, has a lot of assets and resources in...