MIT Sloan ION: Innovation Observatory Network Envisioning & Enabling Systematic Empirical Observation of Effective Leaders, Transformative Innovations, & Global Development Draft Proposal v.0.92 ~ 2 September 2002 Joost Bonsen ~ ~

MIT Sloan Faculty Interests at Various Levels of Systems Analysis Economy Sector Firm Group Individual Geography Market/Tech Organization Theme Idea Technology Roadmapping Technology & Entrepreneurial Strategy Virtual Customer Initiative Emerging Technology Ventures Global Development Venture Capital Decision Psychology Creative Communities, Social Networks Business Dynamics

Weaving together Interest Clusters at Various Levels of Analysis… Economy Sector Firm Group Individual Geography Market/Tech Organization Theme Idea Technology Roadmap Technology Venture Observatory OpenSource Initiative Virtual Customer Initiative Emerging Tech-Biz Live Cases ION

ION = MIT Sloan Innovation Observatory Network Weaving together clusters of currently existing and potential empirical, quantitative MIT Sloan research Observing Innovation in all its forms Aligned with unifying overarching MIT Sloan themes… Innovation Globally Leadership

Innovation Observatories: Viewing the Business Implications of Emerging Technologies 1.Technology Roadmaps –Prototyped by Fine & Kimerling at Microphotonics –Generalizing Moore 2.OpenSource Initiative 3.Tech Venture Observatory 4.Virtual Customer Initiative 5.Emerging Tech-Business Live Cases Original Plot of “Moore’s Law”

1. Technology Roadmapping (TRM) Including Professors Charlie Fine & Rajeev Ram (in MicroPhotonics) Prototyped by Sematech in Semiconductors, now in MIT MicroPhotonics Center Big-picture perspective on development targets; overview the business implications of technology trendlines Emerging Themes: MEMS, Neuroengineering, Nanotech, Genomics…

2. OpenSource Initiative (OSI) Including Professor Eric von Hippel, RA Karim Lakhani Inquiring about Innovation Ecologies, Individual Incentives, Informal Organizations New domains: OpenSource Hardware, OpenSource Biology, and more…

3. Technology Venture Observatory (TVO) Including Professor Diane Burton Inquiring about Business Strategy, Employment Models, Founder Experiences, Emerging Technology Businesses, Entrepreneurial Financing…

4. Virtual Customer Initiative (VCI) Including Professors John Hauser, Ely Dahan, Drazen Prelec, Nader Tavassoli, et al Methods for Accelerating the Customer Feedback  Product Development connection. Live Demos – –

5. Emerging Technology- Business Live Case Studies (LCS) For example, Professors Fiona Murray in Biotech, Joe Jacobson in Nanotech Inquiring about New Technology arenas, Radical Research Seeking Business Implications Commercialization Challenges Class Connections

Technology Roadmap Technology Venture Observatory OpenSource Initiative Virtual Customer Initiative Emerging Tech-Biz Live Cases Innovation Observatories: Further Possible Research Clusters Economy Sector Firm Group Individual Geography Market/Tech Organization Theme Idea Global Development Observatory Venture Capital Observatory Social Network Observatory Decision Neuropsychology Lab Technology Testbed

Innovation Observatories: Core Qualities Empirical, Quantitative – Systematically research most compelling questions Leverage – Make most of scarce faculty time Build Reputation – MIT Sloan should lead in practical and rigorous scholarship on Innovation, Leadership, and Global action Scaling & Supporting – Build up ION research Operations & Infrastructural Leverage ( OIL )

Innovation Observatories: Bolstering A Key Quadrant of the MIT Sloan Research Endeavor Qualitative Quantitative EmpiricalTheoretical ION

Specific Possible Research Thrusts Global Development Effective Leadership Transformative Innovations Finance, Accounting, & Economics Manag’nt Sci, Functional Disciplines Behavioral & Policy Science Strat & Org’ns MIT Sloan Matrix Classic MIT Sloan Disciplinary Strengths Unifying Strategic Themes Developmental Entrepreneurship Visualizing Complexity Comparative Market Research Technology Roadmaps MicroFinance Technology Venture O. Innovation Global Leadership

Developmental Entrepreneurship Visualizing Complexity Comparative Market Research Technology Roadmaps MicroFinance Technology Venture O. Global Development Effective Leadership Transformative Innovations Finance, Accounting, & Economics Manag’nt Sci, Functional Disciplines Behavioral & Policy Science Strat & Org’ns Classic MIT Sloan Disciplinary Strengths Unifying Strategic Themes Innovation Observatories: MIT Sloan School-wide Initiative Covering Quantitative, Empirical Aspects ION

Innovation Observatories: Sloan School-wide Benefits Research – High quality, comparable, longitudinal data on hundreds of technologies, products, companies, industries, & regions across several emerging technology sectors Education – Students learn through close observation as practitioners in the research, benefit from new types of quantitative, cross- comparable case-studies. Practice – Answering questions relevant to operating execs, allowing comparative benchmarking, delivered through SMR, ExecEd, custom & MBA programs.

Research on Business Implications of Emerging Technologies  The “MIT Matrix” Lessons woven thru Joint Technology Business Programs –BioEnterprise, NanoEnterprise Benefit & Draw Upon undergrads & technologist grad students Cross-Disciplinary, Formal & Informal Social & Professional Links Innovation Observatories: A Way to Engage the Rest of MIT

MIT Sloan Technology Biz Matrix InfoBioTinyCompl’xDevelop- mental MIT Research LCS/AI, Media, 6 HST, BEH, 7 MTL, 3, 5, 6, 8, 16 SDM, Aero, 6, 15, 14, 13 Digital Nations, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, Sloan Research eBiz, Mkting POPI, ??System Dynamics, Tech Strat Econ, Global Entrepreneur ship 2. Sloan Courses ITBT, eBiz Bio- venture ?SysDyn, Strat, OR, Global E-lab, DE 3. Sloan Extracur Media- Tech Health- Tech ?OR, SDK12, etc SEID MIT Alum Startups Akamai, DirectHit Amgen, Biogen Gen’tec Surface, eink, Angstr’m HP, Raytheon, Teradyne AfricaOnline, Evergreen Solar MIT Matrix

MIT Strategic Technology Thrusts 1.Information Technologies = Ever more sophisticated computation & communication, leveraging mind & media. 2.Biomedical Technologies = Medical engineering, perfecting the health & life sciences. 3.Tiny Technologies = Investigating and fabricating ever smaller systems, at scales from micro thru nano 4.Complex Systems = Large scale, socio-political & econo-technological systems. 5.Developmental Innovations = Appropriate and leapfrog technologies for tackling challenges in developing & emerging regions

OIL Fueling the ION Research Machine: Operations & Infrastructural Leverage Maximally Leveraging Faculty Time Scaling Training in Research Methods, Integrated Interview Guides, Unifying Databases Staff Support, for formal & informal activities Structural Mechanisms

Staff & Support Personnel Research Support Staff –Central – statistics, websurveys E.g. Stats software support –Distributed – thematic E.g. Microphotonics Roadmapping Project Mgr Training Support Extracurricular Support –Clubs –Branded Events

Infra-Structural Mechanisms 1.Masters Research Seminars 2.Coordinated Special Projects 3.Team UROPs 4.Dean’s Research Fellows 5.Course Connection 6.Structured Theses

1. Masters Research Seminars (MRS) Aligning Masters student professional interest with Faculty Research Agenda through specific themed-seminars E.g. TRM – Technology Roadmapping, Fall 2002, Professor Charlie Fine, TA Joost Bonsen Others? –TVO – Tech Venture Observatory –OSI – OpenSource Initiative –VCI – Virtual Customer Initiative

2. Coordinated Special Projects (CSP) Independent effort by individuals or teams of students around a sponsor or research theme of interest. E.g. Professors Gabriel Bitran, Rebecca Henderson…

3. Team UROPs Undergraduate researchers working in teams on unifying projects under the supervision of faculty, graduate students, and select alums E.g Diane Burton, Jay Forrester…

4. Dean’s Research Fellows (DRF) Well-paid, full & part-time Summer & IAP graduate researchers Prestigious position, coveted and very selective Rich collateral benefits for student and MIT

5. Sloan Course-Research Connections Weaving faculty research questions deeply into their academic courses, for example, with structured assignments and/or final projects. Typically requiring further work beyond classroom, after semester E.g. Professor Ed Roberts, Ely Dahan…

6. Structured Theses Masters theses aligned around over- arching faculty research themes Ultimately aggregated into publication E.g. Professors Ed Roberts, Arnoldo Hax, Charlie Fine, Michael Cusumano, Henry Weil…