The second annual MIT Sloan Energy Finance Forum, which focused on the lifecycle of energy finance, was held last Friday at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. I am not someone interested in working in finance, but I decided to walk across campus to get a sense of the state of the sector in case I ever am in the position to develop a business from a technology I may develop during my time as a student here at MIT or afterwards.
As a fourth year PhD student in mechanical engineering, I have been around the block before; I have gotten to know a couple generations of Sloan MBA students, many of whom are very eager to find a technologist—someone with a potentially marketable technology—and lead this unsuspecting engineer or scientist down the path of soliciting investment and business development. I have not yet come across what I would consider to be a marketable technology during my graduate work, but I figured that this forum would afford me a good opportunity to understand this pipeline and what I may possibly encounter.
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Author: Addison Killean Stark
