9.455/15.128/20.454/MAS.883 Revolutionary Ventures ~ Inventing & Deploying Transformative Technologies
Fall 2016
Instructors: Joost Paul Bonsen, Edward Stuart Boyden, Joseph JACOBSON
Lecture: R 2-4p (E15-341)
Information:
Revolutionary Ventures is about envisioning and building ideas and organizations to accelerate engineering revolutions. We focus on emerging technology domains, such as neurotechnology, imaging, cryotechnology, gerontechnology, and bio-and-nano fabrication. We draw upon historical examples as well as live case studies of existing or emerging organizations, including labs, institutes, startups, and companies. Goals range from accelerating basic science to developing transformative products or therapeutics. Each class is devoted to a specific area, often with invited speakers, exploring issues from the deeply technical through the strategic. Individually or in small groups, students prototype new ventures aimed at inventing and deploying revolutionary technologies.
Be sure to visit the Revolutionary Ventures group on Facebook --
https://www.facebook.com/groups/revventures/
-- for sharing non-confidential ideas, news articles, and event
announcements.
Announcements
For Thur 10/6 Guests plus 60 second RV Scouting Pitches
For 10/6, we'd like you to share 60 second RV
Venture Scouting pitches. Please send
reven@media.mit.edu 1 slide before class by 1pm Thurs 10/6
with:
1) The Idea / Who did you talk to
2) Shortform Business Plan - What's your plan for rolling out
the idea
3) Why is it revolutionary?
By Thurs 10/13 we'd like you to share your Initial Team Building. Put your team and initial idea together. Introduce it to the class on 10/13.
Announced on 01 October 2016 6:54 p.m. by Joost Paul Bonsen
Assignment #3 ~ Reading & Doing Metcalfe's Laws...
[1] Metcalfe, Bob. "Metcalfe's law after 40 years of ethernet ." Computer 46.12 (2013): 26-31. OR
[2] Zhang, Xing-Zhou, Jing- Jie Liu, and Zhi -Wei Xu. " Tencent and Facebook Data Validate Metcalfe’s Law." Journal of Computer Science and Tejchnology 30.2 (2015): 246-251.
Do:
[3] Come up with an ‘Internet of Things’ Metcalfe’s Law Revolutionary Venture concept: i.e. Very low cost thing that produces value by having the things talk to each other where the value created is proportional to the number of possible connections (which scales as n 2 ) among the things.
Announced on 24 September 2016 8:12 p.m. by Joost Paul Bonsen
Assignment #2 - Revolutionary Venture Scouting - Due 9/29
Go exploring… Find a compelling, unexploited, on campus (Harvard /MIT) recent breakthrough / development that has the potential to be turned into a revolutionary venture. Meet the people behind the breakthrough. Develop a short form business plan of how the breakthrough gets rolled out and how it scales over time. Detail in what way(s) your venture meet the criterion of being ‘Revolutionary’.
Announced on 19 September 2016 8:20 a.m. by Joost Paul Bonsen
Jacobson's additional mini-Assignment on Defining Revolutionary...
For discussion in class this Thurs 9/15:
1] Give your definition for what makes a venture / idea revolutionary (as opposed to merely evolutionary).
Give your favorite example(s) and why.
2] Use your definition for #1 to write a pseudo algorithm to search for the best ideas / inventions in the patent database.
What is the best invention of all time?
Announced on 13 September 2016 8:00 a.m. by Joost Paul Bonsen
Please review other people's background and interest on the RV16 Participant response shee
Announced on 12 September 2016 7:53 p.m. by Joost Paul Bonsen
