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The MIT Samuel Tak Lee Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab (STL Lab), which is managed jointly by MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Center for Real Estate, aims to educate future entrepreneurs and thought leaders from diverse backgrounds in the field of socially responsible real estate development. Guided by a framework of creating, exchanging, and disseminating knowledge, the STL Lab uses multi-disciplinary programs that synergistically promote socially responsible real estate entrepreneurship globally, with a particular focus in China. Some of these initiatives include, for example, funding advanced MIT faculty research, providing graduate fellowships, building case study materials, developing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), hosting conferences and workshops, building educational real estate games, and facilitating exchange initiatives with Chinese universities and other academic and research institutions. This pragmatic and cross-disciplinary approach works within and beyond MIT to cultivate a truly global conversation about innovative and socially conscious development.