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Exit Interview: Lita Nelsen on MIT Tech Transfer, Startups & Culture

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What, I think, is the first technology-based, early-stage venture capital fund anywhere, American Research and Development , was founded between Georges Doriot at Harvard Business School and Karl Compton, who was president of MIT at the time. Twenty years ago, everybody in Boston knew he was.

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Milestones of Innovation 15: Entering the New Atomic World

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A momentous step into the atomic age happened around 3:20 p.m. Central War Time on Dec. 2, 1942, seventy-five years ago, in a vast, unheated space (a former squash doubles court) under the abandoned University of Chicago football stands at Stagg Field.

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