Join leaders of Chinese government and enterprise with world-renowned MIT faculty in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, to explore emerging technologies already reshaping the future of many industries. Co-hosted with the Wuxi Municipality, the 2020 MIT ILP Innovation Symposium with Wuxi will provide opportunities to engage academics and global ILP member executives driving economic growth across the country and the world through innovation and entrepreneurship in advanced manufacturing, IoT, new materials, and energy solutions.
The 2020 MIT Japan Conference will feature future trends of research at MIT and highlight advances in key areas, including advanced materials, healthcare technologies, infrastructure, energy and management. Attendees will have the opportunity for continued in-depth discussions with faculty speakers during both lunch and an evening networking reception.
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Principal Investigator Seok Hyun Yun
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The future of business is swarm business – whether it’s at Uber, Airbnb, Tesla, or Apple, it’s not about being a fearless leader, but about creating a swarm that works together in collective consciousness to create great things that change the world. In Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), small teams of intrinsically motivated people enabled by the Internet work together to invent something radically new. A successful swarm channels the competitive energies of all stakeholders towards collaboration. I also propose a collaboration scorecard made up of seven key variables – “honest signals” – indicative of creative swarms, drawn from hundreds of industry projects. The “seven honest signals of collaboration” are “strong leadership”, “balanced contribution”, “rotating leadership”, “responsiveness”, “honest sentiment”, “shared context”, and “social capital”. I will illustrate these “honest signals of collaboration” using numerous industry examples ranging from startups to innovation teams at the R&D departments of Fortune 500 firms to teams of Healthcare researchers and patients.
Join the MIT Industrial Liaison Program with professors Yossi Sheffi, Alex Pentland, and Andrew Lo for a special webinar highlighting the impacts of COVID-19 on business.
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