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Harvard launched a new licensing model across three technology pathways: Engineering & Technology, Medical Device, and Software, to help academic innovators turn promising ideas into real-world products faster and more efficiently. 

Harvard engineers have developed Mobilio, a smartphone app that uses AI, built-in sensors, and personalized audio beeps to give users with blindness or low vision continuous guidance and obstacle avoidance. Ph.D. student Raymond Liu led the research in collaboration with Patrick Slade, assistant professor of bioengineering at John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and associate faculty member of the Kempner Institute. The Harvard Grid Accelerator supported the research.

Scaling biomanufacturing is often constrained by how efficiently gases move through liquids—FluxBio, a Harvard startup out of the lab of Jarad Mason in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Harvard, found a solution by re-engineering the liquid, not the machine. The microporous water technology received critical early support from the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator to advance while in the lab and ultimately form the basis for FluxBio.

Harvard Design Magazine covers how faculty, students, and practitioners use play to generate knowledge, engage community, and rethink urban design. The magazine features MOOT City, an urban planning game developed by Gorata Kgafela during her doctoral research in Botswana for her Doctor of Design degree at Harvard Graduate School of Design.