Entrepreneurship and MIT have become a classic pairing, with a storyline that seems to write itself: A researcher develops a brilliant innovation in the lab, spins out a company, and brings a product to market that saves lives or improves society. It happens, sure ' but long-term startup success is far from guaranteed. That's the challenge that prompted the launch of the MIT Kavanaugh Translational Fellows Program a decade ago, giving scholars who want to turn academic research into solutions to pressing challenges the time, tools, and business training to improve their chances of success. 'MIT has this world-class research facility and faculty and everything, but it also has world-class entrepreneurial programs,' says Nick Diaco, an MIT postdoc and 2025 Kavanaugh Fellow, in a new video about the program. 'You really need both if you actually want to take an idea from the lab and put it into the real world and put it into situations where it's actually affecting people's lives.' The...
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