Sloan 2012
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The Kendall Square
Initiative
...Epicenter of Innovation
…Enhancing the Technology Venture Zone
Surrounding MIT
....Being and Building Good Neighbors
....Creating and Delivering Value for the Future
New Sloan Possibilities
• Integrative Campus Plan
• Aligned with & Supporting Overall MIT
Sloan Strategic Vision
• Bettering MIT and the greater Kendall area
http://www.citybuzz.com/images/photo/text/nightour.htm
Sloan is a Gateway to
the Rest of Cambridge,
a Bridgeway to Boston
http://www.angio.net/~lukesos/Personal/ScratchBook/Joshua_Tree_99.html
New Sloan / Economics
Complex
Joan & Bill Porter
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1999/nov03/porter.html
Generous
Donors
http://web.mit.edu/evolving/projects/sloan/maps.html
Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners of Santa
Monica, CA in association with Sasaki Associates of
Watertown, MA
Kenan Sahin
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1999/nov10/sahin.html
The New Sloan
Kendall Square Initiative &
the New Sloan Campus
• Bolstering the Case for the Capital
Campaign
• Institute & Sloan Visibility
• Research Funding
• Getting to know potential Exec Ed
Clients
• Recruiting the potential recruiters
• Connections with peer Departments
Part of MIT’s Larger
Commitment to Community
• Kendall Square Initiative
• Win-win way to enhance Research,
Education, and Extracurriculars
• Enhancing our environment by design,
not default
Understanding our Own
Innovative Environment Better
• Transferring Technology: Bridging
Academia & Industry
• Understanding our local Innovation
Cluster
• Sharing this know-how
• Replicating industry clusters, replicating
technology labs (e.g. MediaLabAsia)
Emerging Possibility
• Scoping Exercise
• What is the Kendall Square Initiative/Collaborative?
• Why is it important?
• Who should be involved?
• How do we move forward?
• What resources will it take?
• Brainstorming
• Building a Team
• Planning Next Steps
The Kendall Square Initiative
• Collaborative effort w/ MIT as a Catalyst
• MIT
• Private Sector
• Public Sector
• Internal & External Objectives
• “Catalyze an effective array of educational, research &
community activities that uniquely engage leaders in the
Kendall Square technology community”
• Needs to address biotechnology and entrepreneurial
communities squarely, but not be limited to just
them...(Motorola & British Telecom, as well as Novartis,
Genzyme, and smaller bio startups)
Sample Partners/Stakeholders
MIT
Private Sector
All (5) MIT Schools (see examples)
MIT Entrepreneurship Center
ILP/Corp Relations
MIT Enterprise Forum
Deshpande Center for Innovation
Technology Licensing Office
Technology Review
CMI
Office of Community Relations
Treasurer’s Office
Planning Office/Facilities
Novartis
Motorola
Genzyme
Millenium
Biogen
Akamai
Mass High Tech
Boston Business Journal
“Venture Infrastructure” firms
City of Cambridge Economic Development Division
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce
Cambridge Zoning Board
Mass Biotech Council
Public Sector
Examples from (5) Schools
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Economic Impact Studies
Venture Observatories
Innovation Clusters
Technology Transfer Processes
Venture Test Bed
Architectural & Urban Design Projects
Links to Major Research Centers (Oxygen Outside!)
Major Stakeholders/Partners
• Internal MIT
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All (5) Schools (Examples follow)
MIT Entrepreneurship Center
ILP/Corp Relations
Deshpande Center for Innovation
Technology Review
• Private Sector
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Novartis
Genzyme
Biogen
Motorola
Millenium
Akamai
• Public Sector
Possible Alumni/Business Leaders
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Alex d’Arbeloff
Ray Stata
Bob Metcalfe
Kenan Sahin
Carl Yankowski
Alan Spoon
Patrick McGovern
Liz Altman (LFM alum, Motorola)
Henri Termeer (CEO, Genzyme)
Mark Fishman (Head of Novartis R & D Center)
Larry Weber (The Weber Group, Interpublic)
Key Sloan (& Affiliated) Faculty
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Ed Roberts
Glen Urban
Charlie Fine
Rebecca Henderson
Fiona Murray
Jim Utterback
Diane Burton
Noubar Afeyan
Howard Anderson
John Preston
Joe Jacobson
Sample Staff Team Members
(Need Leaders AND Doers!)
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Ken Morse
Mary Schaefer
Rochelle Weichman
Margaret Andrews
Dave Weber & Steve Lewis
Karl Koster (ILP/Corp Relations)
Krisztina Holly (Deshpande Center)
Lita Nelson & Steve Brown (Tech Licensing Office)
Bruce Journey (Tech Review)
Additional Potential Team
Members
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Joost Bonsen
Lisa Shaler-Clark
Ken Zolot
Kristen Collins
Tim Rowe
Amy Salzhauer
Maureen Stancik
Range of Sample Initiatives
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Events
Educational Activities
Research Collaborations
Physical/Geographical Development Planning
Commercial activities
• Something for every School (and many offices) @MIT!
Technology Park Approach
• Example: Hong Kong “Cyberport”
• Joint Public/Private project - Pacific Century Cyber Works
• Multi-faceted project
• Technical
• Cultural
• Social
• Commercial
• Residential
•http://www.cyberport-project.com.hk/home.htm
IAP Innovation Initiatives
• CMI’s Fostering Innovation: Bridging
Academia and Industry
• Deshpande’s Successful Invention:
Going from Idea to Implementation
• ExecEd’s Virtual Teams
• E-Center’s Entrepreneurship
Development Program
• Technology Roadmapping
Student Extracurricular Action
• MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, VC
Club, Media/Health/TinyTech Club Offerings
• Science & Engineering Business Club
– IAP Technology &
Entrepreneurship Forum
• MIT TechLink’s IAP JazzLink
– Campus-Wide Graduate
& Alum Connections
EE
MBA
MatSci ChemE
Invaluable Sloan Location
• Unbeatable Physical
Location
• Blossoming Kendall
Neighborhood
• Memorial Park
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/www/075.html
http://web.mit.edu/sloansenate/ http://www.fbc.keio.ac.jp/~dokamoto/photo1st/boston.gif
Broader MIT Development Context…
http://web.mit.edu/evolving/constructionmap.html
MIT Commercial Context
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/tsmap.jpg
Kendall Square
http://web.mit.edu/vrtour/n4.html
Future of Kendall Square
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/globe_tech/at_large/2001/0319.html
Technology Square @ MIT
http://www.tech-square.com/html/location.htm
http://www.tech-square.com/html/buildings.htm
Tech Square Yesterday
Cambridge asked
MIT to help replace
Abandoned Lever
Soap Factory
Tech Square was
Envisioned as new
Tax generator and
Source of local
employment
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/tsqaerial.jpg
Tech Square Tomorrow
MIT recent purchase
Might this
Become Academic
Plant?
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/tsq300.jpg
University Park @ MIT
http://www.universityparkatmit.com/Leasing/U_Park_Big_Aerial/body_u_park_big_aerial.html
University Park over Time
•Start 1982 w/
Forest City
•Old Simplex site
•27-acre Campus
http://www.universityparkatmit.com/Leasing/body_leasing.html
Only mixed use
Development in
City
Connecting with & Inspiring
more MIT-Related Companies
~ US$250 Billion in Market Valuation
Kendall Companies –
e.g. Biogen
http://www.biogen.com/site/images/map2.jpg
Greenburg’s Vision
http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/newsevents/2002/greenberg/kendallsqdetail.html
Bolstering Ground Floor Retail
http://www.cambridgeincubator.com/about/contact.cfm
http://web.mit.edu/cao/www/hotels2002/cambridge2002.htm
http://www.barshots.com/picturesofbars/cambridge_ma/flat%20top%20johnnys.jpg
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Assets/Images/Theatres/kendall_sm.jpg
MIT’s Current Local Business
Connections
• MIT Enterprise Forum
– Monthly gatherings, Bi-Yearly Workshops, Satellite
Broadcasts
• Cambridge Business Development Center
– Breakfast w/ the Stars for CXOs in Faculty Club
• Greater Boston Executive Program
– 20-25% Kendall Square & Cambridge companies
Technology Venture Zone
K-Lab: Local Leadership Lab
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Edwin Land’s Vision
Sloan as the Kendall
Conference Center
BioBash 2.0? NanoBash?
Mass X-Tech Councils
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Technology – Stata, d’Arbeloff
Biotech – McGuire
Software – Plotkin
Mass Technology Collaborative
MassMEDIC
Mass Nanotechnology Initiative – Hanover,
Swieki
… http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=4922
Sloan & Kendall Premier
Technology Testbed!
• Project Mercury – Latest wireless
technologies; Showcase for MIT Labs
• Evocative Architectural Innovations
– Digital Glass, Organic HVAC, UltraReconfigurability, Working Elevators
• Premier Digital Infospace – Next
generation libraries & visualization
environment
http://www.emperorlinux.com/acc_network.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/06/08/xircom_review.html
http://www.handspring.com/
http://www.futurelooks.com/features/Lifestyle/Wearable_comps/page1_frame.htm
http://www-5.ibm.com/se/news/archive/images/computers/wearable-pc/wearable-pc-closseup-guy.jpg
MIT LCS/AI’s Project Oxygen
http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/
Sloan can Extend Emerald
Embrace
• We must play our role in the City
Beautiful movement inspired by
Olmstead
– Stanford design
– Extending the Emerald Embrace
http://www.larch.umd.edu/classes/larc/L160/Slides/fredericklawolmstead/SLIDES36_40/SLIDES36_40.html
Parking Our Cars Under Parks
Post
Office
Square,
Boston
http://urbanparks.pps.org/gps/one?public_place_id=20
http://www.ellenzweig.com/html/infra/pos_9.html
Greenways At & Around New Sloan
• Extending Gray
Way thru Amherst
Street towards
Sloan
• Wadsworth
towards Charles
River?
Extend
Gray Greenway
through Amherst Alley
http://www.sasakiassociates.com/Markets_We_Serve/campus/arboreta.html
http://ec.mit.edu/tour/
Our Potential View …
http://www.photo.net/photo/travel/boston
…plus, Ultimate 4th of July Venue!
http://graphics.boston.com/images/daily/05/fireworks_640x480.jpg
http://www.interactivepages.com/stuff.html
Kendall Residential
http://web.mit.edu/spurs/www/fall02.html
Building 20: Magical Incubator
20
1996
Stata
Center
~450,000 ft-sq
http://web.mit.edu/buildings/statacenter/