Principal Investigator Luis Perez-Breva
Co-investigator Dame Fiona Murray
Project Website http://iteams.mit.edu/
Build commercialization strategies for cutting-edge MIT technologies during i-Teams by combining business analysis with technical insights. Deepen your understanding of science commercialization and develop skills that will enable you to effectively approach the commercialization of new inventions throughout your career.
i-Teams (short for "Innovation Teams") is a unique MIT course that assembles cross-disciplinary teams of students from across MIT. The goal of i-Teams is to teach students the process of science and technology commercialization focusing on how to judge a technology's commercial potential. Each team has access to faculty, practitioners, business mentors, and fellow students throughout their project.
Lectures focus on building tools and insights for thorough and analytical commercial due diligence of promising early-stage inventions. Some lecture topics include:
(*) Assessment of user needs and market opportunities(*) Analyzing market and technical risks and building roadmaps to address them(*) Identifying the commercial risks (including intellectual property) that shape competitive advantage(*) Understanding the politics and processes of commercialization