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Transformative mentorship and connections for medical technology innovators

2025 EDITION
Applications for IDEA² 2025 are open

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1:1 project-specific mentoring from matched experts

Innovation training

Workshops to develop your project and gain new skills

Elite international network connections

Put your healthcare technology idea on a path to impact

Based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, IDEA² provides transformative mentorship and expertise to emerging innovation leaders to develop their project ideas. Individuals and teams complete IDEA² with new technology projects clearly focused on compelling medical needs, broad networks of connections, and improved abilities to compete for collaborators and funding.

Dedicated guidance

The expertise and connections available to teams ranges across elite institutions in Boston and other international research hubs. See where our mentors have come from

Diverse exposure

IDEA² teams cover research areas ranging from new biomaterials to big data analysis—and they learn from one another's innovation journeys. Read about the 2022 teams

Proven method

The MIT linQ innovation method  helps teams refine their research objective, anticipate challenges, and identify multiple development paths. Read about the linQ Method
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Transformative mentorship and connections for medical technology innovators

2025 EDITION
Applications for IDEA² 2025 are open

2024 EDITION
Applications for IDEA² 2024 will open Monday, August 21 at 12:30am ET

Call for Project Descriptions

1:1 project-specific mentoring from matched experts

Innovation training

Workshops to develop your project and gain new skills

Elite international network connections

Put your healthcare technology idea on a path to impact

Based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, IDEA² provides transformative mentorship and expertise to emerging innovation leaders to develop their project ideas. Individuals and teams complete IDEA² with new technology projects clearly focused on compelling medical needs, broad networks of connections, and improved abilities to compete for collaborators and funding.

Dedicated guidance

The expertise and connections available to teams ranges across elite institutions in Boston and other international research hubs. See where our mentors have come from

Diverse exposure

IDEA² teams cover research areas ranging from new biomaterials to big data analysis—and they learn from one another's innovation journeys. Read about the 2024 teams

Proven method

The MIT linQ innovation method  helps teams refine their research objective, anticipate challenges, and identify multiple development paths. Read about the linQ Method
Word cloud of biomedical health technology terms

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