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May 28, 2015 | Tom Ballard

MIT President discusses challenges of today’s innovation system

InnovationThe President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology writes: “Today, our highly optimized, venture-capital-driven innovation system is simply not structured to support complex, slower-growing concepts that could end up being hugely significant — the kind that might lead to disruptive solutions to existential challenges in sustainable energy, water and food security, and health.” Its a thoughtful opinion piece that appeared recently in The Washington Post.



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