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Big ideas |
What's your big idea. Pitch it! |
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Development entrepreneurship, $100K and IDEAS competitions |
2007 MIT $100K spring kickoff speaker: Micah Rosenbloom, COO/Co-founder, Brontes Technologies |
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IDEAS competition, Deshpande Center for Innovation |
IDEAS generator dinner |
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Team formation, meaning of "Development" and proposal outline |
1st spring deadline for initial IDEAS proposal due |
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Co-evolutionary design for development |
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| 6 |
Case study — Muhammad Yunus: Banker to the poor
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Submission deadline for $100K executive summary due one day after Ses #6 |
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Case study — Muhammad Yunus - continued discussion |
Applications due — Deshpande IdeaStream Symposium |
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Case study — Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Venkataswamy (Ali Alhassani) |
IGNITE clean energy executive summaries due one day before Ses #8 |
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Theory |
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| 10 |
IDEAS proposals review workshop |
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| 11 |
Case study — participatory development and patent basics and confidentiality (Tamira Gunzburg) |
2nd spring deadline for initial IDEAS proposal due |
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Case study — Ghana pottery and patents (cont.) (Jessica Lee) |
$100K semi-finalists announced |
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Finance |
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| 14 |
Case Study — making aid work (Angela Kilby), mixed income housing (Daniel Bergey) |
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| 15 |
Finance (cont.) |
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| 16 |
Case Study — rural energy in developing countries (Zehra Ali), eco-effectiveness (Tess Veuthey) |
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| 17 |
IdeasStream conference and innovation showcase |
IdeaStream conference |
| 18 |
Monitoring and evaluation |
IDEAS competition final entries due one day before Ses #18 |
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Case Study — total sanitation (Ibrahim Kanan) |
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| 20 |
Technology for remediation of arsenic in drinking water |
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| 21 |
Case study — human waste reuse (Xavier Gonzalez) |
IDEAS displays and judging session due one day before Ses #21 |
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Social marketing |
IDEAS awards ceremony due one day before Ses #22 |
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Case study — biogas in Nepal (Chris Tostado) |
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| 24 |
Final presentations |
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| 25 |
Final presentations (cont.) |
$100K awards ceremony due one day after Ses #25 |
