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Celebrating Plastic-Free July with the AquaPlastic team

Earth-friendly AquaPlastic does what regular plastic can, but better - and we're proud to say the venture is being incubated right here at the i-lab. In celebration and support of Plastic-Free July (and a healthier planet year-round) we connected with the duo developing a robust, eco-friendly, scalable (and, frankly, brilliant) material that biodegrades not in 500-1,000 years, but a mere two months.

Announcing the Harvard Student Ventures Selected for the Summer Venture Incubation Program

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Read about the Harvard students that will spend this summer moving their innovative ideas and ventures forward as part of the Harvard Innovation Labs Summer Venture Incubation Program (VIP).

Harvard Innovation Labs to Host Inaugural Launch Lab X Startup Showcase

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Event to highlight accomplishments of ventures that graduated from Harvard’s nine-month accelerator for alumni-led startups.

Harvard Innovators Awarded $410,000 in President’s Innovation Challenge

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A mobile app that stops cyberbullying, a solution for supporting tenants’ rights and housing advocacy, a technology that is raising the standard of infection protection, and a science-driven approach for reinventing everyday consumer products received the four top prizes in the annual President’s Innovation Challenge Showcase and Awards Ceremony.

Finalists Named in Annual President’s Innovation Challenge

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The Harvard Innovation Labs recently announced the 20 finalists for this year’s President’s Innovation Challenge.

Women Making History at the Harvard Innovation Labs

March 2019 has been a whirlwind Women’s History Month. In just the past few weeks, women all over the world have made history. The prime minister of New Zealand has exemplified compassionate leadership. Greta Thunberg has inspired an entire generation to climate activism. And Ruth Carter and Hannah Beachler have epitomized the black women increasingly […]

Announcing the Student Teams Competing for $310,000 in the President’s Innovation Challenge

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The Harvard Innovation Labs announces the student teams competing for $310,000 in this year's President’s Innovation Challenge.

Harvard Innovation Labs 2018 Year in Review

Jodi Goldstein, Executive Director, Harvard Innovation Labs

Creating a new way for small businesses in Africa to evaluate the health of their companies. Using blockchain to reduce the costs of personal genome sequencing. Empowering immigrant entrepreneurs across the U.S. through documentary filmmaking. These are just a few of the hundreds of products and services that members of the Harvard community worked on […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces New Initiatives to Scale President’s Innovation Challenge

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Learn more about the 2019 President's Innovation Challenge, which brings together the Harvard community to engage with pressing issues facing the world.

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces Alumni-Led Ventures for Inaugural Startup Accelerator Program

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13 startups selected from more than 260 global applicants to participate in the first Launch Lab X cohort