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<div id="divRpF63232" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> mit-postdocs-bounces@MIT.EDU [mit-postdocs-bounces@MIT.EDU] on behalf of Sara da Luz Areosa Cleto [scleto@MIT.EDU]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 14, 2014 5:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> mit-postdocs@mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Innovation Initiative - participate!<br>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Dear Postdocs </div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:breeja@mit.edu" target="_blank">Reeja Jayan</a>, a member of the MIT Innovation Initiative, has reached out to us to inform all postdocs of the following:</div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><b>Town hall style meeting to discuss ways of enhancing your innovation experience while at MIT</b></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">The Innovation team will then meet with the deans of innovation and share with them suggestions coming out of this meeting.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">If you'd like to participate, please fill out this poll: http://doodle.com/qne78iphe2x2c9i6</div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">For more information on this initiative, please read below.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Kind regards,</div>
<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Sara</div>
<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">- on behalf of the PDA</div>
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<div><b>MIT Innovation Initiative</b></div>
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<div>MIT raised a generation of talent on a culture that gives permission to innovate. This meant taking risks, breaking rules and challenging the norms. MIT’s culture of innovation has shaped the path of society for generations, but the challenges on the road
ahead need to merge innovative thinking with compassion. MIT Innovation Initiative is at a critical point that can chart a path to progress by solving the grand list of “problems” that now face us. But beyond problem solving, they have the unique opportunity
to chart a path that looks at problems from points of view beyond science and technology. The Innovation Initiative wants to draw on the extensive expertise available here among MIT faculty, students and postdocs to lay down the framework for developing a
“holistic” problem solving culture, which marries a robust technological road map with the economics, politics, and ethics needed to optimize the future. This initiative aims to infuse innovation as part of our every day lives at MIT to serve as the model
for “innovation education” for other universities and organizations. This initiative should transcend MIT’s campus to engage young inventors and entrepreneurs across the globe and transform these ideas into practice.</div>
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<div>Specifically, we will engage in the following activities:</div>
<div>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Understand, monitor and actively (as well as publicly) map MIT's innovation ecosystem</div>
<div>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Enhance and improve current innovation institutions and programs</div>
<div>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Create new innovation programs to address and target weaknesses in MIT's innovation ecosystem.</div>
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