We make it our mission to advance science, foster entrepreneurship, and translate Harvard innovations into valuable solutions that make the world a better place.

LPCE prepares Harvard students to take the lead in solving global challenges by fostering entrepreneurial thinking within education

The Harvard i-lab works with hundreds of student startups each year (a record 576 this fall). We advance seed-stage alumni ventures as well. 

TECH advances the understanding and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship through experiential education

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The Rock Center provides unrivaled support as our students and alumni transform their ideas into successful startups.

The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator guides Harvard scientists toward translational impact by providing strategic, monetary, and advisory support for well-defined research projects. 

Read about the research projects recently funded or find out how to apply for funding in 2024.

For Harvard College sophomores and juniors to build knowledge, skills, and a community, putting them on a path to launch and lead innovative endeavors

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Harvard HealthLab (H2L) is the first  accelerator  at Harvard University focused on nurturing student startups geared toward social impact.

 Blueprint is a nonresident program for graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, faculty members, and their teams, to explore the commercial opportunities of their discovery.

Accelerator program for positive social change. SICI supports visionary social innovators and strengthens the ecosystems they need to thrive.

10-month immersion that will leave fellows equipped to use  Biodesign innovation framework to reimagine the healthcare. The program runs August - May.

Nucleate is a student-led organization that represents the largest global community of bio-innovators.

For two years, Activate supports fellows with a full-time living stipend, mentorship, an entrepreneurial education, access to funders and industry experts, and funding to access the facilities they need to turn their research into a first product.

HLEP provides legal advice to entrepreneurs at Harvard and MIT, free of charge, by matching entrepreneurs with teams of Harvard Law School students and attorney advisors from top startup-focused law firms in the U.S.

Bridging the gap between industry and academia and providing the education, skills, and network for students to become future leaders in biotech.

I-Corps program participants learn, through customer discovery, how to identify valuable opportunities that can emerge from academic research.

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A climatetech startup incubator, founded by entrepreneurs. Featured opportunity: Go Build 2023 program: Areas of interest include companies extending product life cycles, furthering alternative raw materials, revalorizing waste, or acting as other enabling technologies.

MassChallenge connects startups, experts, corporations, and communities to grow and transform businesses and economies. Accelerating high-impact startups with bold, disruptive ideas from non-traditional backgrounds.

A joint fund offered through Harvard's Office of Technology Development (OTD) and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability aimed at increasing the global impact of Harvard research in the areas of climate and sustainability.

The Acorn Innovation Grant supports Principal Investigators at Massachusetts research universities who seek to demonstrate the viability of their technology. Awards could be used to: 1) further develop a prototype, 2) gather additional data or 3) obtain data to compare the technology. 

The National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) Emerge Accelerator seeks to establish partnerships with universities to create new dual-use ventures that can serve both government and commercial markets. The ventures will be based on existing university intellectual property corresponding to the DoD’s urgent and critical areas of technology development.