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TECH's mission is to advance the understanding and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship through experiential education: by initiating, advancing and informing student projects. TECH helps faculty create and deliver innovation and entrepreneurship project courses, provides stiudents with project support and sponsors and advises student groups working to build the Harvard innovation community.
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TECH is both a real and virtual space for students, faculty, alumni, and industry leaders to learn together, collaborate, and innovate.
TECH is based on the belief that boundaries -- between disciplines, people, organizations, and ideas -- need to be crossed continually to create the insights that lead to innovations because socially useful and commercially viable advancements require the right mix of scientific and engineering knowledge, entrepreneurial know-how, and worldly perspective.
TECH enables this holistic exploration by serving as a crossroads of innovation education. Operating from within the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - an interdisciplinary science and technology institution that draws from its close connection to Harvard's undergraduate liberal arts tradition and its graduate schools - TECH sponsors and supports many opportunities for the innovation community to gather and exchange knowledge, including courses, study groups, mentorship relationships, and special events.
About Us
TECH, part of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (HSEAS), creates an innovation community for both undergraduate and graduate students across the university.
Contact Us
For all matters related to TECH, please contact Paul Bottino or call 617.496.3423 or send real mail to: TECH Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Paul Bottino is co-founder and executive director of TECH. He serves as an advisor to several startup companies and as a member of the Harvard College Business Advisory Council and on the board of directors of Harvard Alumni Startups, Inc. Paul co-founded and is a director of Medicine in Need Corporation, an international nonprofit organization developing drug and vaccine delivery systems for infectious diseases. Before starting TECH in 1999, he created and managed relationships between Harvard's ten faculties and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Harvard in 1996, Paul practiced law in Boston counseling emerging technology ventures and specializing in technology licensing and other intellectual property matters. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Middlebury College and his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School and is an active member of the Massachusetts bar.
Activities
I^3 Imagine Invent Impact
TECH is a proud co-sponsor of the Harvard College Innovation Challenge. Enter your innovative idea and get help and resources to realize it.
Venture Magazine
Venture Magazine provides students with a business and technology outlook on popular culture. Venture has been self-sustaining since Q3 2004, the fastest Harvard College publication ever to become profitable, and is one of the few magazines in the country to have won the Associated Collegiate Press' Pacemaker Award for excellence in college journalism for two consecutive years.
Harvard Alumni Startups
Harvard Alumni Startups is a non-profit organization whose mission is to foster entrepreneurship within the greater Harvard community.
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
TECH sponsors Harvard's annual membership in the NCIIA, which provides all Harvard students and faculty members access to NCIIA's resources, including grants (deadlines each year in May and December) for courses/programs and teams developing technologies.
Innovation Program
TECH has established an interdisciplinary Program on Innovation in Science and Engineering with lead sponsorship from Altran Technologies and Arthur D. Little. The program is a collaboration between members of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Altran, and its affiliate company, Synectics, Inc., forming the first program of its kind to investigate and foster innovation from within a school of engineering and applied sciences.
Each spring, the program names its Innovation Fellows who are awarded living stipends and travel allowances.
2006 Fellows
Kavita M. Shukla, '06 (Economics)
Shyam Tanguturi, '07 (Biochemistry)
2005 Fellows
Thomas D. Perry IV, Ph.D. '05 (Microbiology)
Ryan Larsen, Ph.D. '06 (Applied Physics)
Research Grants
Anqi Huang, A.B. '07 (Computer Science and Economics)
Kevin Gan, A.B. '07 (Biochemical Sciences) will continue his work concerning the development of RNA interference as a paradigm for innovation.
2004 Fellows
Marissa Olsen, Ph.D. '07 (Applied Physics)
David Ricketts, Ph.D. '06 (Electrical Engineering)