Innovation Center at MC

What is an innovation center?

From the University of Illinois at Chicago, Innovation Center

The Innovation Center is a community of industry entrepreneurs and academic researchers working in partnership to instigate breakthroughs: fusing the uncommon, taking risks, thinking big.

The Innovation Center’s mission is to produce Innovation and Innovators through 3 approaches to engagement.

Collaboration: Bring industry thought leaders together with university experts to seed innovative thinking and to enable collaboration in design, technology, products, services, and business models."

Education: Our interdisciplinary educational mission seeks to engage faculty and students in close collaboration with corporate partners to develop and commercialize new products.

Incubation: Support innovation activities though the use of the innovation center facilities, capabilities and financial support.

Why do we need an innovation center?

Who will be involved in an innovation center?

What things do you find going on in an innovation center?