MIT Bootcamps

MIT Innovation Leadership Bootcamp

Applications Closed
October, 2023 - December, 2023

Understand the essentials of entrepreneurial innovation to turn your ideas into action.

Whether you are fighting to maintain your current business position, or disrupt the market, innovation is core to a sustainable and resilient business in a world currently coping with disruptions. From AI to political instability, these changes are affecting fundamental assumptions of how our world operates today.

During the Bootcamp, using MIT’s framework for innovation and entrepreneurship, you’ll learn to identify an innovation opportunity, develop and deliver a superior solution, and select a business model to deliver value for a range of stakeholders.

Our team and project based program is meant for those looking to make an immediate impact in their organization and in the world. The MIT Bootcamp will transform your capabilities for innovation past what you thought was possible.

Application Deadline September 10, 2023

Venture Advancement Program - Open

In-Person @MIT
May, 2024 - May, 2024

Are you ready to take your venture to the next level?

A growth program for entrepreneurs, the Venture Advancement Program is a 5 day in-person program, where you will “drink from the firehose” of innovation at MIT.

During the program, you will immerse yourself in the MIT innovation ecosystem, build rich connections with like-minded peers and MIT-trained entrepreneurs, and develop a robust innovation toolkit.

You will refine your strategic business direction, hone your tactical entrepreneurial skills, and leave the program ready to take the next step - whether that’s validating your product-market fit or early-stage fundraising.

Application Deadline February 11, 2024

What is the Bootcamp?

We believe in learning by doing. You'll be an active part of your educational experience at your Bootcamp.

MIT Faculty seminars

Learn from and engage with faculty from MIT Sloan and the Engineering School, who show entrepreneurship CAN be taught.
Innovation workshops

These interactive workshops take you from theory deep into practice, showing you how to apply and use the innovation tools and frameworks you learn through MITx MOOCs and readings.
Seminars with industry experts

Entrepreneurship requires an ecosystem of support. Learn firsthand from the experiences of entrepreneurs and investors who have helped make the MIT innovation ecosystem one of the most robust in the world.
Team-based innovation projects

The solo entrepreneur is a rare myth. A team with diverse skills and experience is required to build a sustainable venture. Work with a global team of innovators selected by MIT Bootcamps to build the foundations of a venture together.Build the foundations of a new venture with your global team
Coaching sessions

MIT Bootcamps are rigorous and your coach is there to guide and support your team throughout. MIT Bootcamp coaches are experienced and successful entrepreneurs and corporate innovators who have experienced the challenges of bringing innovation from idea to market.
Office hours

The Bootcamp schedule is packed with seminars, workshops, and team work, with a focus on your team’s venture. Office hours are a time to connect with the MIT Bootcamps team and other Bootcampers in areas not covered during other formal sessions.
Team deliverables

Each week, you’ll build a new part of your venture with your team. The deliverables help guide your team through the analysis and decisions you need to make along the way.

Becoming and Belonging

From meeting and exceeding high expectations to finding community - our programs are transformational.

The magic of MIT is a combination of intellectual rigor and surrounding yourself with other motivated and inspiring individuals. MIT Bootcamps brings this magic to you. Your instructors will ask you to think beyond the obvious and your coaches will expect and guide you to achievements that might not have seemed possible on Day 1. Throughout the Bootcamp and beyond, you will be sharing this immersive experience with the MIT Bootcamps team, your coach, your team, and your broader cohort. Once you complete the Bootcamp, you’ll join our community of 1800+ innovators and changemakers from 100+ countries. If you’re looking for a carefully selected community that will continue to inspire and motivate you, you can find it here.

Coaching by MIT innovators

Our "secret sauce” is that we’re with you every step of the way

While we expect a lot from you and your team, our team and your coach are there for you throughout the program, whether it’s in-person or virtual. Experienced entrepreneurs and corporate innovators, MIT Bootcamp coaches are selected for their experience, analytical skills, and ability to navigate challenges - both intellectual and interpersonal. They have succeeded (or failed, learned, and grown) when faced with many of the same challenges you will face as an innovator. Guiding you through the Bootcamp, their goal is for you and your team to have the most successful learning experience possible, learning from every success, misstep, or conflict along the way.

A rigorous educational experience

Learn from the same instructors who teach innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT

Our programs feature faculty, instructors, and researchers who are leading innovation research and practice across MIT - in business, engineering, and design - and creating ecosystems that foster innovation, at MIT and beyond. You will hear about their latest research, breakthroughs, and frameworks directly from them. The MIT Bootcamps team and coaches have been through the MIT curriculum, either as MBAs, graduate students, or previous Bootcamps, and create the same culture and performance expectations you’ll find in classes at MIT. Challenge yourself with us.

Global Community

We are a global community of innovators, entrepreneurs, and changemakers. Our community spans over 100 countries and over 1300 individuals. Our Bootcampers come to the Bootcamp to make a difference in the world through social impact. They leave with the support of a global community to inspire them, support them, and walk through the entrepreneurship journey with them.

If you come into it with a sense of purpose or desire for impact and you know perhaps where you want to channel it the bootcamp will really help you unleash that. -Arthur Nelson