College/University - Boston, MA, US
The Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) is spurring the development of a science of innovation through a systematic program of solving real-world innovation challenges while simultaneously conducting rigorous scientific research and analysis. LISH is a Harvard-wide research program lead by faculty co-directors Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School; Eva Guinan, Harvard Medical School; and David Parkes, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; with support from the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. With our partners in both academia and industry, LISH conducts research on innovation in three main tracks:- Incentives & Governance- Creativity & Problem-Solving- Organization & ProcessesWhich are applied within five areas of application:- Crowdsourcing & Open Innovation- Data Science & AI Development - Science of Science - Managing R&D Labs & Organizations- Technology Translation