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Businesses are eager to fund projects with defined outcomes and finite timelines. In reality, researchers find that the innovation process is usually more messy—and often more rewarding over time. “Ideas that at first appear to simply be an interesting leap, a next step in product development, or a combination of known technologies can turn out […]

What are five of the most important trends to watch as platforms continue to gain clout? Where will the next challenges emerge? At the recent Platform Strategy Summit held in-person at MIT, co-leaders Peter Evans, Geoff Parker, and Marshall VanAlstyne, offered technology and industry trends to watch. Primary among them: The role of AI; Global […]

MIT News just published a profile of the IDE’s Dean Eckles discussing his work.  “Studying social networks allows Eckles to tackle significant questions involving, for example, the economic and political effects of social networks, the spread of misinformation, vaccine uptake during the Covid-19 crisis, and other aspects of the formation and shape of social networks.” […]

Peter Slattery is a Visiting Scientist at MIT FutureTech and MIT IDE, where he assists with research operations and explores the social and behavioural drivers and barriers to AI adoption and scaling. He is interested in how to use research, communication, and entrepreneurship to safely develop and deploy AI for maximum societal benefit. An interdisciplinary […]

Determining when next-gen computing makes financial sense won’t be easy. A new framework finds that enormously complex business problems will benefit, but many workloads will still run best –and more economically — on classical computers.   By Peter Krass Like many technologies, quantum computing is both a brilliant breakthrough and also a misunderstood advancement. Decades […]