MIT mechanical engineering professor Jeehwan Kim walks by a molecular Beam Epitaxy system that grows semiconductors. This is an example of the kind of technology that could potentially be developed ...

Innovation is the Holy Grail of business, the ticket to the future. A new book, Inside Real Innovation: How the Right Approach Can Move Ideas from R&D to Market — and Get the Economy Moving, attempts ...

Eric von Hippel, founder of the Entrepreneurship Program at MIT, says companies owe their customers a debt of gratitude. The reason,he said in an interview with the MIT Sloan Management Review, is ...

Innovation used to be the preserve of a select band of employees--be they designers, engineers or scientists--whose responsibility it was to generate and pursue new ideas, often in a separate location ...

"Innovation - identified by MIT economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow as the driver of long-term, sustainable economic growth and prosperity - has been a hallmark of the Massachusetts Institute of ...