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Research & Policy Drawing from many intellectual frameworks and academic disciplines, the Innovation Initiative aims to provide a clear and useful vision of today’s innovation economy while exploring its future potential for a greater diversity of participants, ideas, and outcomes. MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy Engaging experts from across MIT and partner institutions in cross-disciplinary research, the lab develops innovation science using an evidence-based, scienti c approach drawing on diverse methodologies. Results contribute to fundamental knowledge of the innovation process and aid decision-makers as they face an ever more complex innovation landscape. The Lab for Innovation Science and Policy strives to become the place that policy makers, senior executives, and entrepreneurial leaders turn to for evidence-based guidance on the design of innovation-focused policies and programs in their organizations, local regions, and nations. The lab’s overall program of research takes an evidence-based approach to understanding: • Policies that shape innovation at the national and ecosystem level. • Programs used to promote innovation. • People driving innovation within large companies and startups. The MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy is an MIT-wide laboratory established to help develop the eld of innovation science, an emerging area that systematically studies the practice of innovation—moving ideas from inception to impact.