Building partnerships to harness innovation.
Discover how to create win-win partnerships across academia and industry, with checklists, tools, and real-world insights from MIT’s CSAIL Alliances leader Lori Glover.
Helping Industry & Academia Collaborate to Innovate.
Innovation Alchemy explores how to develop mutually beneficial collaborations across industry, academia, and beyond. It offers Lori Glover’s 10-step framework, including strategies for defining value, mapping stakeholders, and building strong engagement programs—plus interviews, case studies, and toolkits ready to implement.
About the author
Lori Glover J.D.
Lori Glover leads global partnerships and alliances for MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) – the largest lab at MIT with over 1700 people and 60+ research groups. She is responsible for corporate and organizational engagement with the lab through the CSAIL Alliance Program, research initiatives, the Visiting Industry Researcher program, start-up and technology ecosystem, professional development programs and talent acquisition/recruiting within CSAIL. She serves as Executive Director of research initiatives MachineLearningApplications@CSAIL, NextGenerationSoftware Efficiency@CSAIL, FinTechAI@CSAIL and MIT’s Future of Data, Trust and Policy Initiative. Lori also serves as a a member of both non-profit and commercial Advisory Boards. Her expertise spans strategic partnership development, computer science and AI research applications, finance, intellectual property, and law. She has led many innovative engagement programs bringing together world-renowned researchers with leading companies to address business challenges and drive innovation.
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An incisive and comprehensive new playbook for symbiotic partnerships.
Avoiding a “one-size-fits-all” approach, this book clarifies the foundations of solid partnerships and collaborations. It explains the author's 10 Steps to successful partnerships, including:
- How to understand the fundamentals and define your strategy
- Knowing your stakeholders and mapping their connection points
- Understanding possible paths of engagement, plan creation, and team building
Innovation Alchemy sets out the path in 10 steps:
Research and ideas are the raw material of the Innovation Supply Chain. But raw material needs to shaped and supported to become the next game-changing technology, medical cure, or global innovative company. How do we create these partnerships?
- Understand the fundamentals.
- Define your partnership strategy/frame ROI.
- Know your stakeholders.
- Map your connection points.
- Understand possible paths of engagement.
- Create your plan.
- Build your team(s) for success.
- Execute the plan.
- Track your successes/learn from mistakes.
- Innovate.
Have your code and ready to innovate?
Innovation Insights
“Lori Glover’s understanding of ecosystem dynamics is spot on... a straightforward playbook that simplifies the complexities of building a successful ecosystem.”
— Sara Fraim, CEO, Mass Technology Leadership Council
“This is the essential guide to industry-university partnerships that deliver both immediate and lasting results.”
— Katie Stebbins, Executive Director, Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute
“At Nasdaq, we recognize the strategic importance of fostering innovation partnerships... this book provides valuable tools for doing so.”
— David Birnbach, Head of University Partnerships, Nasdaq Labs