This cause is very dear to my heart, and I am both honored and humbled that this new center will play such a pivotal role in advancing applied innovation research at Tufts.
Auster Center for Applied Innovation Research
What is the Auster Center for Applied Innovation Research?
The Auster Center for Applied Innovation Research is dedicated to advancing our understanding of how innovation, particularly technology innovation or innovations that are touched by technology, can be fostered, translated, and applied to do good in the world. The Auster Center supports and funds Tufts faculty and students to conduct research to explore novel ways to solve wicked problems and achieve impact through applied innovation. The work of the Auster Center will establish Tufts University’s thought leadership in Applied Innovation Research.
The Auster Center for Applied Innovation Research focuses on four objectives:
- Initiating and executing applied innovation research with a focus on forward-looking research that influences how leaders and organizations might act in the future, rather than backward-looking research that solely focuses on analyzing what happened in the past.
- Launching a grant program to stimulate transdisciplinary applied innovation research, soliciting proposals from across Tufts University.
- Supporting undergraduate research opportunities, where undergraduates can receive grant money to join summer innovation research projects with faculty members.
- Building industry partnerships to provide both sources of innovation challenges as well as partners to co-create new methods for fostering and translating innovation to impact.
For further information about the Auster Center for Applied Innovation Research, please contact Tufts Gordon Institute at tgi@tufts.edu.
