MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem steps up to the challenge of Covid-19

MIT’s innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) community has stepped up to the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic — and perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than in the new Covid-19 Rapid Innovation Dashboard, pictured, which features more than 50 projects, research initiatives, startups, and global activities undertaken by the MIT community to respond to the crisis.  Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT
MIT’s innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) community has stepped up to the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic — and perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than in the new Covid-19 Rapid Innovation Dashboard, pictured, which features more than 50 projects, research initiatives, startups, and global activities undertaken by the MIT community to respond to the crisis. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT
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Entrepreneurial groups around the Institute have launched initiatives to address challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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MIT D-Lab, where hands-on learning and common makerspaces are central to operations, is just one example of an area where faculty members are taking this opportunity to try new ways of managing projects and rethinking their curriculum.

“We’re in a real brainstorming phase right now, in the best sense of the word — throwing out all the wild ideas that come to us, and entertaining anything as we decide how to move forward,” Libby Hsu, a lecturer and academic program manager at D-Lab, told MIT News the week before MIT classes resumed. “We’re getting ready to ship materials and tools to students at their homes. We’re studying how to use Zoom to facilitate project work student teams have already put in. We’re realistically re-assessing what deliverables we could ask of students to help D-Lab staff prototype things for them here on campus, perhaps later in the semester or over the summer.”

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