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Green Building

SoCal Tech Calendar

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. With the carrot in place and the stick coming, the industry is set to explode and it is huge: green building runs the gamut from high tech to innovative uses of low tech in order to reduce environmental impact, energy use and GHG, the ultimate goal being zero net energy use and no GHG emissions.

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

Xconomy

Our wide-ranging conversation covered the progression of MIT’s entrepreneurship curriculum and campus resources , the rise of the Boston-Cambridge area as a high-tech industry powerhouse, the prospects for an MIT venture fund , the challenges for university tech transfer offices, the roots of today’s startup culture, and more.

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