Insights from US trip on university innovation models
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INSIGHTS FROM US TRIP
AUGUST 2016
creative.uts.edu.au
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WHO I VISITED
Virginia Tech
• Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology
• Apex Systems Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Innovate Living-Learning Community
Harvard
• Harvard iLab
• Shorestein Institute for Media, Politics and Public Policy (Kennedy School
of Govt)
• Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
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AND…
MIT
• MIT Media Lab
• Martin Trust Centre for Entrepreneurship
• MIT Collective Intelligence Centre
• SENSEable City Labs
Code for Boston (part of Code for America)
MassChallenge
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SOME INSIGHTS
Artwork by Joe Kelley at Virginia Tech Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology exhibition
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UNI INNOVATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMS
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UNI INNOVATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMS
- Located in Business, Engineering or under Provost or VC directly
- Range of approaches to entrepreneurship – some very hands on programs others rely on students to initiate and run with virtual wallet/points
- Team size range 2-17 some also doing research
- Most funding centrally provided with supplements from faculty prizes, places or industry places in incubators. US strong alumni, industry funding
- Harvard and MIT innovations labs open to all students undergrad and grad can attend courses, events
- Common challenges; gender balance, scaling up quantity without losing quality, coordinating strategy across university
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UNI INNOVATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMS
- US strong alumni networks especially with entrepreneurs. Strong culture of ‘pay in forward’
- Advisory boards some Deans/senior uni exec, others completely external alumni/industry others mixed
- Special status for entrepreneurs; flexibility in completing studies, can do internships in own startups, starters wallet
- Integration of prototyping or mini maker spaces
- Micro business challenges – 3 weeks 10 pounds
- Models staff/researchers spinouts negotiate IP with uni
- Mostly extracurricular. Model of visible and invisible curriculum
- Entrepreneurship as attitude start in early schooling – make it fun
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VIRGINIA TECH APPROACH
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VIRGINIA TECH APPROACH
- Live in residential program (2 years)
- Focus on talent development not startups
- Strong alumni entrepreneurship
- Visiting entrepreneurs in residence – 2-3 days living in
- Entrepreneur treks
- Network of Investors, $2m available last year each investor has to commit
$10k
- Network of advisors
- External alumni and industry advisory board
- Support for student startups next steps in adjacent Corporate Research
Centre – whole economic ecosystem around uni
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HARVARD APPROACH
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HARVARD APPROACH
- Harvard iLab open drop in/working space for students interested in
entrepreneurship
- iLab began 2011 LaunchLab 2014
- Open to any current student undergrad or postgrad
- Run events, masterclasses, some faculties run their innovation subjects
there
- Accelerator program VIP program each team has a board get up
- Competitions
- LaunchLab ‘curated community’ 30 alumni startups coworking space can
stay up to 2 years
- Large no wealthy donors and alumni
- Deans on Advisory board. ‘One Harvard’ campaign
- Building Living Lab – wet lab for innovation
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MIT APPROACH
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MIT APPROACH
- Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship
- Open access space for all students. Workshops, events, hackathons
- GPSA accelerator program. 17 teams each has a board and access to
$20,000 if meet milestones as judged by board. Bill Arlet program
- Final pitches MIT, New York, San Francisco
- Shorter summer program 1 month
- MIT Launch high schools program and free online course
- 4 entrepreneur in residence’s run the programming
- Mix undergrad, grad and PhD
- New team ‘MIT Innovation Initiative’ pulling together coordinated
approach/strategy
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RESEARCH
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VT INSTITUTE FOR CREATVITY, ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
- Research institutes work across all faculties
- 3 labs including the Cube 4 story immersive 3D space
- SEAD funding rounds - $500 students, $3000 interdisciplinary teams,
$25,000 flagship project plus access to labs and facilities
- Coffee mornings once a week where someone talk about their project
- CubeFest series of events/showcases
- a2ru transdisiplinary research publication/installations etc
- VR collaboration
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SENSEABLE CITY LABS
Effect digital tech on urban environment and how changes the way people
live in cities
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SENSEABLE CITY LABS
- Spin out from MIT Media lab
- Funded through research grants and industry
- Consortium model for companies. 3 year commitment set price for seat at
table, access to IP, marketing
- Can sponsor additional research per year for 2 research fellows
- Can’t direct research but can identify challenge or problem
- Have option to commercialise IP through MIT
- Companies Philips, Audi, Uber etc
- Fellowships and student placements
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MIT MEDIA LAB
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MIT MEDIA LAB
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MIT MEDIA LAB
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MIT MEDIA LAB
- Interdisciplinary research lab founded 1985
- High level autonomy from university thanks to Nicholas Negroponte
- 100% industry funded
- 15 labs each headed by a professor
- Sponsors fund general themes
- Can’t direct research but have access to IP created
- ‘Inventing a better future’ is current theme
- Online courses open to any students internationally, finding collaborators
- Blockchain hacks
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WHAT IS UTS POINT OF DIFFERENCE- Strong focus on creative practice and methodology
- Documented ICI strategy
- BCII students – secret weapon
- Social impact/enterprise focus
- Cultural difference more relaxed focus on quality of life
- Lifestyle, beaches, attitude
- Gateway to Asia and significant Asian population for testing/prototyping
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DIGITAL CIVICS
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DIGITAL CIVICS
- Collective intelligence Centre – Solve Colab
- New kind of intelligence that scales. How to measure crowd intelligence?
- Govt Singapore – future scanning
- Code for Boston/Code for Australia
- Reinventing media, sustainability fourth estate
- Blockchain identity management refugees, stateless people
- Reinventing public institutions
- Politics is broken – how to fix it?
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OPPORTUNITIES/IDEAS
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OPPORTUNITIES/IDEAS
- International student program residential opportunity
- ‘Cluster X’ fund teams for cross disciplinary projects, practitioner/faculty
partnership projects
- Blockchain hack collaboration MIT Media Lab
- a2ru transdisciplinary publishing
- MIT REAP
- Investor networks
- Mapping visible and invisible curricular/student user journeys
- MassChallenge Bridge program in Australia
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And we won….