[Mitworld] Baldo on Solar Concentrators, Murray on the Power of Competition

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 49 |  July 29, 2009

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Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained
May 19, 2009

In this final MIT Museum Soap Box event on solar energy, Marc Baldo explains how researchers are well along in designing a highly efficient, inexpensive solar cell, and discusses why the big barrier to the dissemination of solar power in society remains the problem of installation.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/689

Speaker:
Marc Baldo
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"Making solar cells is a great problem for materials scientists and electrical engineers, but it’s a problem we’re going to mow down. We’ll definitely solve that and make them cheap. The problem is getting them into society -- that’s the main challenge."
-Marc Baldo

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The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World’s Brains on your Innovation Challenges
June 6, 2009

Cooperation may be making us “a little bit too nice” when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there’s nothing like competition for injecting energy into 
the process of solving key innovation problems, whether in business or society.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/690

Speaker:
Fiona Murray
Sarofim Family Career Development Professor

Associate Professor

Management of Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship


Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"Why do we all work hard when we have a race to run? Prizes establish incentives well beyond their pure monetary value. ... Winning is a motivating force, about attention and surprising others.
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-Fiona Murray

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In The Pipeline:

How the Brain Encodes Reward

Presented By:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
 The Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease

Speaker:
Okihide Hikosaka
Neuronal Networks Section Chief
National Eye Institute

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