Innovation Resource Hub
Browse innovation and entrepreneurship resources across Harvard University and Greater Boston.
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All
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Harvard Business School
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Harvard College
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Harvard Divinity School
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Harvard Extension School
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Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Harvard Graduate School of Design
2
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Harvard Graduate School of Education
2
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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
3
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Harvard Kennedy School
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Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
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Harvard Law School
5
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Harvard Medical School
4
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Harvard School of Dental Medicine
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Harvard University
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Non-Harvard Affiliate
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Arts and Culture
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Biotech and Life Sciences
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Climate and Sustainability
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Diversity,
Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
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Education and Learning
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Education Technology
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Employment, Recruiting, and Workforce Development
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Finance
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Government and Civic Engagement
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Healthcare
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Legal
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Media and Publishing
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Medical Devices and Hardware
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Public Health and Global Health
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Social Enterprise
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Technology
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Venture Capital
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Web3, Crypto, and NFTs
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Funding
Allston Venture Fund
An investment collaborative that provides pre-seed funding to high-potential, high-impact ventures led by Harvard students. Typical award amount: $10,000-$100,000. The next deadline will be announced soon.
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Innovation Center
Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship
At the Rock Center, HBS students and alumni join a dynamic community with access to leading entrepreneurship faculty, curated programs, funding opportunities, and a network of knowledgeable and experienced experts. Resources include: courses, New Venture Competition, Rock Summer Fellows, entrepreneurs-in-residence, and more.
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Innovation Center
ArtLab
The ArtLab at Harvard is a dynamic and versatile space that serves as a catalyst for creative expression and interdisciplinary collaboration. It provides a unique environment where artists from diverse fields can explore new ideas and experiment with their craft.
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Innovation Center
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
The mission of the Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation is to develop ideas and foster practices for equal and inclusive, multi-racial and multi-ethnic democracy and self-government.
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Innovation Center
Babson Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepeneurship at Babson College accelerates new ventures of all kinds by providing Babson’s emerging entrepreneurs access to the opportunities, community, and critical resources that they need.
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Initiatives & Research
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
The Berkman Klein Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.
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Coworking Space
Blavatnik Harvard Life Lab Longwood
The Blavatnik Harvard Life Lab offers wet laboratories and co-working space for early-stage, high-potential biotech, and life science startups founded by Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and postdoctoral fellows.
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Innovation Center
Boston College Shea Center for Entrepreneurship
The Edmund J. Shea Center for Entrepreneurship integrates entrepreneurial thinking into the educational and formational experience of undergraduate and graduate students at Boston College through academic coursework, co-curricular activities, and experiential opportunities at large and small companies.
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Innovation Center
Brandeis Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship
The Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship serves as Brandeis International Business School's platform to examine and understand the key trends affecting entrepreneurship across cultures and borders.
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Innovation Center
Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC)
Coworking, flexible office, and lab spaces for innovators.
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Academic Opportunities
Climate Venture Class
A free online class for Harvard affiliates and affiliates of partner institutions who want to found a climate startup to tackle climate change, but need to develop an idea.
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Innovation Center
Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts
The Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts develops an entrepreneurial mindset and skillset among Tufts students, alumni, and community members. The center gives Tufts affiliates the tools to take action and lead with impact through entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Innovation Center
Digital Data Design Institute (D^3)
Because AI is only half the answer, the Digital Data Design Institute’s (D^3) global leaders in translational science connect problem owners with problem solvers to invent the future. D^3 is a catalyst for innovation, helping researchers, scientists, business leaders, and entrepreneurs find new and novel applications in digital technology, data science, and design thinking.
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Innovation Center
Enterprise Research Campus
The area known as the Enterprise Research Campus is a Harvard University-owned parcel in Allston Landing North. This property will becoming a non-institutional center for innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship within the City of Boston and the region.
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Resource
Equity Innovation Hub
The Equity Innovation Hub is a think-and-do lab based at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Launching formally in the spring of 2025, the Hub already supports current and future government and community leaders in data-driven innovation and to collaborate across boundaries to advance equitable outcomes.
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Resource
Greentown Labs
Greentown Labs’ mission is to accelerate climatetech innovation and commercialization by empowering entrepreneurs and enabling collaboration.
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Student Club/Group
GSAS Harvard Biotech Club
The GSAS Harvard Biotech Club is a student organization whose mission is to bridge the gap between industry and academia and provide the education, skills, and network for students to become future leaders in biotech.
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Accelerator
Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs
Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs is a nonprofit organization fueled by the collective brilliance of Harvard University alumni who share a passion for entrepreneurship. Through our accelerator, startup bootcamp, MyHarvardAE, mentorship programs, and insightful events, HarvardAE empowers entrepreneurs at every stage of the journey, from all 13 Harvard schools.
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Resource
Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment
HACE is a volunteer-driven community of more than 3,000 Harvard alumni and affiliates who work to address the climate crisis and achieve a more sustainable and just world. From pioneering new programs and initiatives to mentoring, there are many ways to get involved.
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Alumni Club/Group
Harvard Alumni in Tech
Based in NYC, Harvard Alumni in Tech hopes to further the development of technology through encouraging innovation, providing Harvard alumni technologists with resources and networks, and promoting technological activity throughout the Harvard community.
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Alumni Club/Group
Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Association
The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Association (HBSAA) is an educational and networking forum for Harvard Alumni and other participants who are interested in researching and investing in early stage companies on an individual basis.
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Accelerator
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle
The Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle is a selective incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change. The Climate Circle offers world-class coaching, legal counsel, warm connections to industry leaders, and a peer group of Harvard founders who are all working on innovative solutions to tackle climate change.
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Student Club/Group
Harvard Computer Society
Founded in 1983 and now Harvard's largest computer science organization, the Harvard Computer Society at Harvard College is dedicated to promoting CS knowledge, fostering the CS community, and offering free resources to Harvard affiliates.
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Networking
Harvard Founder Network
The Harvard Founder Network is an invite-only peer-based mentorship network for exceptional founders in the Harvard community (i.e. alumni, faculty, students). The network develops meaningful relationships and candidly learn from one another's best practices, expertise, and failures to improve the odds of entrepreneurial success.
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Innovation Center
Harvard Grid
A partnership between Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard’s Office of Technology Development, the Harvard Grid fosters entrepreneurship and the commercial formation of tough tech solutions. Lab-to-market resources include: funding, expert ecosystem, impact venturing programs, and coworking space.
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Student Club/Group
Harvard GSAS Business Club
The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School or Arts and Sciences Business Club (HGGBC) is dedicated to providing business education and business-related career development resources to the GSAS community, as well as networking opportunities.
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Accelerator
Harvard HealthLab Accelerator
A joint venture of Harvard Chan School and Harvard College’s Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship, the HealthLab Accelerator brings together entrepreneurial teams focused on solving challenges in public and planetary health, and provides them with funding and opportunities for mentoring, networking, and collaboration. The program culminates with a spring pitch competition.
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Student Club/Group
Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project
The Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project provides pro bono legal research and analysis to entrepreneurs in the Harvard and MIT community. We match entrepreneurs with teams of Harvard Law School students and an attorney supervisor who work together to answer legal questions.
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Careers/Recruiting
Harvard Student Agencies
Founded in 1957, Harvard Student Agencies is a nonprofit with 10 businesses across various industries that provides educational and business opportunities to Harvard College students.
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Student Club/Group
Harvard Undergraduate Biotechnology Club
Harvard College’s student organization driving healthcare innovation through research, consulting, and managing projects in biotech and pharma.
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Student Club/Group
Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners
Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners (HUCP) aims to connect VC firms with university students who have demonstrated ability to perform due diligence services and draw actionable insights from our exclusive access to university startup ecosystems.
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Student Club/Group
Harvard Undergraduate OpenBio Laboratory
OpenBio provides the space, resources, funding, and advising to help Harvard College students turn their research visions into reality. Through this community, we hope to enable meaningful research and change the culture of undergraduate biology at Harvard and beyond.
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Student Club/Group
Harvard Undergraduate Venture Capital Group
The Harvard Undergraduate Venture Capital Group's core mission is to drive innovation by connecting founders with investors. We do so by offering members the ability to identify promising founders, whose startups serve as successful investments for our partner VCs.
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Student Club/Group
Harvard Women in Entrepreneurship
Harvard Undergraduate Women in Entrepreneurship (WE) is the foundational ecosystem for female student entrepreneurs at Harvard. By organizing in-person events, developing mentorship programs, and fostering a supportive network of students and alumni, Harvard WE connects innovators, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs.
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Student Club/Group
HBS Entrepreneurship Club
The Entrepreneurship Club aims to provide a conduit by which HBS students can access entrepreneurial resources, network with community entrepreneurs, and share ideas. The club is dedicated to furthering understanding about new and small businesses.
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Student Club/Group
HBS Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Club
Educating the HBS community about entrepreneurship through acquisition and providing potential searchers with the network and resources needed to succeed.
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Student Club/Group
HBS FinTech Club
The FinTech Club educates the HBS community on the latest technology and business model innovations disrupting financial services, and to facilitate recruiting opportunities in FinTech.
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Student Club/Group
HBS Future of Work Club
Preparing HBS students to succeed in the the Future of Work by exploring the substantial disruptions occurring in the workforce and understanding their causes, dynamics, and implications on society.
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Funding
HBS New Venture Competition
An annual student business plan contest with prizes totaling $210,000.
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Student Club/Group
HIVE
HIVE (Harvard GSE Innovation and Ventures in Education) is dedicated to helping students develop, sustain, and/or support education ventures.
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Student Club/Group
HKS AI and Tech Policy Caucus
This community is a space to discuss the latest developments in the dynamic world of AI and technology policy. The AITP Caucus brings together interested students from policy, tech, engineering, and social science to forge connections across disciplines through speaker events, workshops, research presentations, company visits, professional networking and much more.
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Student Club/Group
HKS Entrepreneurship and Innovation Caucus
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Caucus is dedicated to fostering a vibrant entrepreneurial spirit and culture of innovation within the student community at Harvard Kennedy School. Our mission is to empower future leaders to develop impactful ventures that address critical societal challenges.
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Student Club/Group
HLS Blockchain & FinTech Initiative
HLSBFI is a unique student organization that is devoted to developing HLS students’ understanding of blockchain technology, the FinTech ecosystem, and the legal, economic, social and political challenges these technologies present in the U.S. and internationally.
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Fellowship
HMS HealthTech Fellowship
The HMS HealthTech Fellowship is a 10-month training program that teaches the biodesign innovation framework and prepares the next generation of health care innovators to set new standards in care through technology, engineering, business, and science.
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Innovation Center
Innovate@BU
Innovate@BU empowers all Boston University students, regardless of their major, to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and the skills needed to turn their ideas into impactful solutions.
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Innovation Center
Innovation Studio
Innovation Studio strives to make innovation possible for anyone with a dream and drive to become an entrepreneur or business owner through its network of Innovation Centers & Business Programs in MA and RI.
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Innovation Center
Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence
The Kempner's core mission is to innovate and advance the field of intelligence research and devise solutions to complex problems for the benefit of humanity.
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Wet Lab
LabCentral
LabCentral offers shared laboratory space designed as a launchpad for high-potential life-sciences and biotech startups.
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Initiatives & Research
Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH)
The Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) is a university-wide research program spurring the development of a science of innovation through a systematic program of solving real-world innovation challenges while simultaneously conducting rigorous scientific research and analysis.
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Accelerator
Launch Lab X
Launch Lab X is our eight-month online accelerator for Harvard alumni founders who want to grow their ventures and their community.
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Innovation Center
Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship
LPCE prepares Harvard students to take the lead in solving global challenges by fostering entrepreneurial thinking within liberal arts education. Students who participate in LPCE programs and studio labs address current problems, such as global health, climate change and social injustice, and receive mentorship and industry connections, as well as entrepreneurial skills development.
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Innovation Center
Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
The Trust Center's focus is the education of MIT students to whom it provides proven frameworks, courses, co-curricular programs, state-of-the-art facilities, advisory services, and processes to create a rigorous, practical, customized, and integrated educational experience.
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Accelerator
MassChallenge
Founded in 2009 in Boston, MA, MassChallenge’s mission is to equip bold entrepreneurs to disrupt the status quo and create meaningful change. MassChallenge connects startups, experts, corporations, and communities to grow and transform businesses and economies.
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Innovation Center
MESH Incubator
The MESH Incubator (est. 2016) is an in-house innovation and entrepreneurship center at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School. The first incubator of its kind integrated into a hospital system, and with a physical location on the ground, MESH has actively created and supported over 1000 clinicians and researchers since 2016 through projects, patents, company-formation, innovation education, and much more.
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Initiatives & Research
metaLAB
metaLAB at the Berkman Klein Center is an idea foundry, knowledge-design lab, and production studio experimenting in the networked arts and humanities.
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Innovation Center
MIT InnovationHQ
InnovationHQ provides a home for MIT’s thriving community of innovators and entrepreneurs, supporting all who pursue ideas with a passion for world-changing impact.
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Innovation Center
MIT Media Lab
The Media Lab is a dynamic interdisciplinary creative sandbox, firmly grounded in academic excellence, where innovation thrives through the collaboration of dozens of research groups, initiatives, and centers on hundreds of transformative projects.
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Innovation Center
Northeastern University Center for Entrepreneurship Education
The Northeastern University Center for Entrepreneurship Education (NUCEE) is an award-winning leader in student-led and experiential entrepreneurship. Its mission is to build initiatives that support Good Humans, create Sound Ventures, and cultivate World Leaders.
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Student Club/Group
Nucleate
Nucleate is a student-run nonprofit organization that facilitates the formation of new life science ventures. Its equity-free activator program supports companies that tackle the biggest challenges in sustainability (Eco Track) and human health (Bio Track). The program connects scientific trainees and business students with a world-class advisor network of startup founders, executives, venture investors, and renowned scientists. Nucleate operates in partnership with the Harvard and MIT biotech clubs as well as various other student groups in the Boston area.
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Resource
Office of Technology Development
The Office of Technology Development promotes the public good by advancing science, fostering innovation, and translating new inventions made at Harvard University into useful products that are available and beneficial to society.
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Funding
President’s Innovation Challenge
A global venture competition for Harvard students and select alumni and affiliates. $515,000 total awarded. Application opens in the fall.
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Student Club/Group
Public Health Innovation x Technology Student Forum
The Harvard Chan Public Health Innovation x Technology Student Forum (PHIT) provides an interactive and inclusive space for students to develop knowledge, engage in thoughtful discussion, and advocate for innovations and technologies that positively impact global and domestic public health.
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Accelerator
Salata Institute Climate Action Accelerator
The Climate Action Accelerator at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability serves as a resource and partner to the full spectrum of stakeholders wrestling with the most difficult and divisive climate questions, building consensus for climate solutions grounded in Harvard’s research and expertise.
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Initiatives & Research
Social Enterprise Initiative
The Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School educates, supports, and inspires leaders across all sectors to tackle society's toughest challenges and make a difference in the world.
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Funding
Social Impact Fellowship Fund
Non-dilutive grants for ventures led by Harvard students with a focus on social impact. Ventures may be for profit or non-profit. Typical award amount: $4,000-$15,000. Apply by February 13 for the Spring 2025 round.
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Innovation Center
Social Innovation Change Initiative
The Social Innovation and Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership is an accelerator of positive social change. SICI supports visionary social innovators and strengthens the ecosystems they need to thrive. Resources include: courses, research, the Social Innovation Accelerator, and the Visiting Social Innovator Program.
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Funding
Spark Grant
Non-dilutive grants for ventures in our Student i-lab membership to conduct demand validation experiments. Award amount: $250-$750. Application opens in the spring.
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Innovation Center
Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard
TECH advances the understanding and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship through experiential education for undergraduate students.
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Accelerator
Techstars Boston Accelerator
Our program leverages the vast expertise of the Boston ecosystem to accelerate the growth of disruptive and cutting edge innovations especially in the areas of health tech, sustainability/climate/AgTech, future of work, the built environment, and AI/ML by providing founders with unparalleled access to top mentors, investors and experts in our community.
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Accelerator
The AI Lab
The AI Lab for Startups, powered by the D^3 Institute, bridges the gap from research to startup by providing business and technology resources, support, and networks to a select group of academic research-based entrepreneurs (Harvard faculty, researchers, and postdocs) working on projects that have artificial intelligence and/or machine learning at the core of their innovation.
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Accelerator
The Engine
The Engine is an incubator and accelerator dedicated to providing early-stage Tough Tech companies with the critical infrastructure, programs, and ecosystem they need to thrive.
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Academic Opportunities
Transactional Law Clinics
The Transactional Law Clinics at Harvard Law School consist of the Business and Non-Profit Clinic, the Real Estate Clinic, the Entertainment Law Clinic, and the Community Enterprise Project. These clinics provide legal assistance to small businesses, entrepreneurs and community organizations.
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Innovation Center
UMass Boston Venture Development Center
VDC is the University of Massachusetts’ incubator in Boston, empowering global entrepreneurs with vital, timely resources and mentorship to turn their innovative ideas into successful companies, regardless of their university.
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Innovation Center
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
The Wyss Institute at Harvard University is a research and development engine for disruptive innovation powered by bio-inspired technologies with visionary people at its heart.
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