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The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge is MIT’s longest running social entrepreneurship program housed in the PKG Public Service Center. For more information and to apply, please read here.

W.L. Gore & Associates has recently launched a Sustainability Initiative to explore business opportunities that will create a more sustainable future. They are interested in meeting and exploring ideas to work together with startups that have created innovative material technologies that fit the theme of a sustainable future across a broad range of application areas.  In particular, they are seeking new material advancements in cleantech (such as membranes), catalysis, separations and biofabrication.

Nexa Resources is a global mining company and one of the invested companies of Votorantim (one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Latin America). They are interested in clean environmental technologies for mining industry, including tailings, water and air purification.

The Dubai Police will be offering an invitation-only Q&A session for startups to learn more about their collaboration opportunities with MIT-connected startups and to explore potential partnership avenues and resources. 

Join MIT Startup Exchange and MIT xPro for a new startup training series on entrepreneurial negotiations.

Global Electronics Material Company Seeks Startups for Development/Distribution Partnerships in Asian Semiconductor/Display Materials Markets

The MIT CIO Symposium  is the nation’s premier CIO event bringing together information technology executives from around the world and leading faculty from MIT. 

Braskem is a $15B global plastic manufacturer in Brazil. They are looking to manufacture Plastic/composite ties that will outlast wood, ideally using recycled material. They currently have this capability but are looking for product advantage/benefits around: rail/wheel interaction; ballast’s maintenance consumption; Life Cycle cost of the tie; Environment requisitions; and pavement’s levels design.

IMA SpA makes machines for packaging coffee, tea, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals. The company sales are about USD 700M. They have operations around the world. Customers include Unilever, Novartis, Bigelow.  They seek robotics startups for repetitive tasks.