Healthcare company-building profile
MIT linQ (Catalyst and IDEA2 programs)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AcceleratorUniversity acceleratorUniversityActive
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Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- University accelerator
- Organization
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Organization type
- University
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage
- Cohort or participation model
- IDEA2 runs as a six-month mentored program; Catalyst operates on annual fellowship cycles
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Active
Public description
About the program
MIT linQ is an innovation initiative focused on accelerating the impact of research on health and society. Its Catalyst program builds multidisciplinary fellow teams to develop new biomedical technologies, and IDEA2 provides six months of innovation training and mentorship for commercialization-focused biomedical projects. Additional programs include IMPACT for postdoctoral career development and the Rising Stars workshop. linQ reports that projects launched through it reach innovation milestones at higher rates than the MIT benchmark.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Biomedical technologyhealth technologymedical devicesneeds-driven innovationtranslational research
- Category: University accelerator
- Program structure: IDEA2 runs as a six-month mentored program; Catalyst operates on annual fellowship cycles
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