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START IT UP! Imagine the ideal innovation laboratory. A hope-filled entrepreneur, fueled by a vision, seed money and coffee, enters a hub of activity and creativity. In the pitch room, he presents his early-stage business venture. In the media room, he participates in a Skype meeting. In one of the high-tech classrooms, he learns from other entrepreneurs, advisers and mentors. He creates a model of his product on a 3-D printer and retreats to a quiet office space with a window overlooking the forest to imagine the future.
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THE DARDEN REPORT SPRING/SUMMER 2013
Lyons Brown (MBA ’87) spoke at the grand reopening of the i.Lab.
A timeline depicting the history of great ideas lines the classroom hallway.