D-Lab Scale-Ups fellowships open for MIT social entrepreneurs
The D-Lab Scale-Ups fellowship program is a year-old acceleration platform for MIT innovators and entrepreneurs turning poverty alleviating technologies into commercially scalable products. With...
View ArticleIDEAS awards offer a ‘launching point’ for ventures
The MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, organizers say, was founded in 2001 to help student-led teams make their humanitarian ventures a reality — through annual competition. And at its 12th annual awards...
View ArticleD-Lab Scale-Ups awards funds to three MIT social entrepreneurs
D-Lab Scale-Ups, launched in 2011, piloted its acceleration platform for MIT alumni innovators and entrepreneurs last year. The fellowship program provides financial and mentoring support to...
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An entrepreneur aims to work in Africa
On the long, bumpy drive to her grandmother’s house in Accra, Ghana, seven-year-old Sarah Dimson began to notice some stark disparities between her home in Norman, Okla., and the country of her...
View ArticleThe surprising value of waste
In the “sanitation value chain,” human waste, with the proper infrastructure, is turned into a valuable commodity. Collecting, storing, and recycling waste into valuable byproducts, such as fertilizer,...
View ArticleD-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship applications open
Launched in 2011, the D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship program serves as an acceleration platform for innovators and entrepreneurs seeking to turn appropriate technologies into scalable and sustainable...
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