Harvard Grid Accelerator — Awards
Offers Harvard engineering teams startup support to take inventions from laboratory development to commercialization outcomes.
The Harvard Grid Accelerator is an annual internal translational funding program administered by Harvard's Office of Technology Development (OTD) that supports engineering and physical-science innovations at Harvard on a path toward commercially self-sustaining startup formation. The program is the successor and rebranded expansion of the earlier Physical Sciences Accelerator. It funds Harvard stu…
Engineering and physical science innovations at Harvard advancing toward commercially self-sustaining startup formation, including hardware, materials, energy, photonics, quantum, and semiconductor research with societal impact.
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