MIT Sloan RIOS Research Infrastructure & Operational Support Envisioning & Enabling Systematic Empirical Observation of Effective Leaders, Transformative Innovations, & Global Development Draft Proposal v.0.1 ~ 28 August 2003 Joost Bonsen ~ ~ RIOS = Research Leverage Maximally Leveraging Faculty Time Scaling Training in Research Methods, Integrated Interview Guides, Unifying Databases Staff Support, for formal & informal activities Structural Mechanisms Staff & Support Personnel Research Support Staff Central statistics, websurveys E.g. Stats software support Distributed thematic E.g. Microphotonics Roadmapping Project Mgr Training Support Extracurricular Support Clubs Branded Events Infra-Structural Mechanisms Masters Research Seminars Coordinated Special Projects Team UROPs Deans Research Fellows Course Connection Structured Theses Masters Research Seminars (MRS) Aligning Masters student professional interest with Faculty Research Agenda through specific themed-seminars E.g. TRM Technology Roadmapping, Fall 2002, Professor Charlie Fine, TA Joost Bonsen Others? TVO Tech Venture Observatory OSI OpenSource Initiative VCI Virtual Customer Initiative DA Digital Anthropology Coordinated Special Projects (CSP) Independent effort by individuals or teams of students around a sponsor or research theme of interest. E.g. Professors Gabriel Bitran, Rebecca Henderson Team UROPs Undergraduate researchers working in teams on unifying projects under the supervision of faculty, graduate students, and select alums E.g Diane Burton, Jay Forrester Deans Research Fellows (DRF) Well-paid, full & part-time Summer & IAP graduate researchers Prestigious position, coveted and very selective Rich collateral benefits for student and MIT Sloan Course-Research Connections Weaving faculty research questions deeply into their academic courses, for example, with structured assignments and/or final projects. Typically requiring further work beyond classroom, after semester E.g. Professor Ed Roberts, Ely Dahan Structured Theses Masters theses aligned around over- arching faculty research themes Ultimately aggregated into publication E.g. Professors Ed Roberts, Arnoldo Hax, Charlie Fine, Michael Cusumano, Henry Weil Masters Thesis Workshops E.g. MIT-style Roadmapping Instruments for Social Observation Zauri / MIThril Reality Mining Sociometers nTags Tech Testbeds Socioscopes Capturing Opinion-, Physio-, Psycho-, Neuro-, Bio-, & Anthro-metrics JPB 2003 eSurveys via eTablets e = electronic, environmental, everywhere Technology Testbeds & Market Microcosms Athena PlaceLab Sloan, Media & Kendall E.g. CycleScore E.g. Shuttletrack Online Explorations e.g. Virtual Customer Initiative (VCI) Including Professors John Hauser, Drazen Prelec, Nader Tavassoli, et al Methods for Accelerating the Customer Feedback Product Development connection. Live Demos http://wow.mit.eduhttp://wow.mit.edu http://conjoint.mit.eduhttp://conjoint.mit.edu Technology Venture Observatory (TVO) Including Professor Diane Burton Inquiring about Business Strategy, Employment Models, Founder Experiences, Emerging Technology Businesses, Entrepreneurial Financing DRAFT PROPOSAL Live Case Studies Emerging Technology-Business For example, Professors Fiona Murray in Biotech, Joe Jacobson in Nanotech Inquiring about New Technology arenas, Radical Research Seeking Business Implications Commercialization Challenges Class Connections Extracurricular Student Research Tech Testbeds Experiment Participation iTeam Research Additionals Online Experiments Experimental Psychology User Innovation Communities Innovation Toolkits Group Dynamics Observatory MBA Teams = 60 groups of 6 people each. Equally heterogeneous demographics. Design Teams Venture Teams Social Psychology Survey & Observation