Chapter chair Jim Ritchie thanks Prof. de Weck.
Prof. Olivier de Weck, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT, was the featured speaker at the October 2012 dinner meeting of the ASM Boston Chapter in Cambridge, MA. He discussed the Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) project, a multidisciplinary endeavor to examine the U.S. economy from varied perspectives, with a focus on the challenges our economy currently faces and their possible solutions. Professor de Weck’s presentation also examined changes in manufacturing brought about by new materials and information technologies. The PIE project continues to improve the understanding of the current state of manufacturing in the U.S., its role in our economy, and how it is adapting and may adapt to ongoing global changes in society, politics, economics, and technology.
Dessert Talk: Scaling Innovative Companies
Hiram Samel, PhD student at MIT Sloan School of Management, shared some of his work on the PIE Scale-Up Module, which examines the path entrepreneurial firms take in scaling up from idea to commercial production. The Scale-Up Module seeks to understand the decisions made by entrepreneurial firms in scaling up production, and the factors influencing those decisions; it also looks for barriers or obstacles that hinder the scale-up process, both in general and specifically in the U.S. One major avenue of research has been a case study on scale-up of companies within Massachusetts.
Prof. Olivier de Weck, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT, was the featured speaker at the October 2012 dinner meeting of the ASM Boston Chapter in Cambridge, MA. He discussed the Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) project, a multidisciplinary endeavor to examine the U.S. economy from varied perspectives, with a focus on the challenges our economy currently faces and their possible solutions. Professor de Weck’s presentation also examined changes in manufacturing brought about by new materials and information technologies. The PIE project continues to improve the understanding of the current state of manufacturing in the U.S., its role in our economy, and how it is adapting and may adapt to ongoing global changes in society, politics, economics, and technology.
Dessert Talk: Scaling Innovative Companies
Hiram Samel, PhD student at MIT Sloan School of Management, shared some of his work on the PIE Scale-Up Module, which examines the path entrepreneurial firms take in scaling up from idea to commercial production. The Scale-Up Module seeks to understand the decisions made by entrepreneurial firms in scaling up production, and the factors influencing those decisions; it also looks for barriers or obstacles that hinder the scale-up process, both in general and specifically in the U.S. One major avenue of research has been a case study on scale-up of companies within Massachusetts.