I received an email from Sonny, a fellow classmate, on Friday about a class call Innovation Teams (or better known as i-Teams in Sloan). Sonny praised that it is one of the best classes that he have taken. According to the course website, i-Teams is described as follows:

I-Teams (2.937, 10.807, and 15.371) is looking for entrepreneurial graduate students to bring innovation to the marketplace. Apply now to participate in this course this Fall! When you join an i-Team, you and other highly qualified graduate students spend a semester collaborating with MIT research labs and mentors from the business community. You work as part of a team with winners of Deshpande Center grants on a specific project to assess the commercial prospects of scientific and engineering breakthroughs emerging from MIT's preeminent labs. You're guided by the labs' Principal Investigators, faculty from the MIT entrepreneurship Center, and leaders of local businesses. Together we determine technological directions and identify product markets. Together we deliver on the promise of bringing MIT-born innovation to fruition.

I was involved with a $50k team, which specializes in nanotechnology, last spring semester. It was truly an exciting and humbling experience; I realized simultaneously that how I know and don't know about commercializing a technology from the experience. The i-Teams course definitely sounds like a cool class and I am interested in taking it to learn more about commercializing a new technology. But interested student can only join the class by applying for it. Let's see how much motivation I get in the next few days to write and submit the application.

7/31/2005 8:33:14 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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