Perhaps it is not surprising that if you recruit a noted angel investor to run one of MIT’s highest-profile research groups, the Media Lab, one of the things he will do is create mechanisms to invest in student start-ups.
That is what is happening at the Media Lab, where Joi Ito — an early investor in Twitter, Kickstarter, and Flickr — is into his second academic year running the place.
To read the original article: Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog - Business - The Boston Globe
