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ANNA MRACEK DIETRICH Her company in Woburn, Terrafugia, is designing a flying car for which she hopes buyers would pay $200,000 to $250,000. Dietrich was educated at MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.This is ordinarily a busy month for conferences, schmooze-fests, and seminars. But cramming the calendar even more this year are two new mega-events: FutureM Boston (starting today) and Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week (starting Oct. 13).
One will spotlight Boston-area companies helping to shape the future of marketing, and the other is planned as a celebration of “the entrepreneurial spirit.’’
With the focus on creating companies and propagating big ideas, it seemed like the right time to assemble a list of some of the area’s most innovative people. The criteria were simple: smart people who are working on important projects at companies of any size, or who support entrepreneurship in essential ways.

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Author: Scott Kirsner