Design is now underway for the Harvard Innovation Lab (Harvard I-Lab), a campus-wide innovation incubator located on the Harvard Business School campus in Boston.
In announcing the project, Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said, “The importance of innovation cannot be overstated. It is also of utmost importance and great interest to our students and faculty, many of whom are inventors and entrepreneurs. The lab will foster team-based activities and deepen interactions among both aspiring and experienced innovators across the schools of Harvard.”
Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria said, “Our goal is to drive innovation by connecting entrepreneurial teams, not only across the Charles River, but nationally and internationally, in an interdisciplinary approach to creating viable business ventures and social initiatives.”
In describing the project, Shepley principal Tom Kearns said, “The word ‘transformation’ can be overused, but this is the real deal. It goes without saying that we’re all challenging one another to think differently and to infuse the design process for the I-Lab with a real spark of inspiration.”
In the past several years Shepley Bulfinch has partnered with a number of the country’s leading universities, including Johns Hopkins and Duke, to create innovative learning and research spaces.
The Harvard Innovation Lab is scheduled to open in late 2011.
Harvard Business School’s Gabe Handel talks about the I-Lab
