Become a Lagatum Fellow at MIT...
The Legatum Center administers a competitive fellowship program for incoming and current MIT graduate students, across all academic and professional disciplines, who demonstrate the potential to create innovative, sustainable, for-profit enterprises that promote prosperity in low-income countries and who are committed to implementing their business plans upon graduation.
The Legatum Center seeks entrepreneurs who aspire to have a lasting and positive economic impact on low-income countries by developing their own entrepreneurial ideas and building their own local enterprises. The Center’s approach is intensely practical. Recognizing that even the best innovations can be rendered useless if not distributed effectively, we work closely with our Fellows to design not just innovative products and services, but also workable, affordable, and sustainable business distribution methods.
The fellowship is open to all MIT graduate students and consists of:
- Business plan coaching
- Specialized seminars
- Networking events with opportunities to engage with entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators that speak at the Legatum Lecture Series and Annual Conference
- Access to the expertise and experience of Legatum Mentors
- Financial Assistance
Please see http://legatum.mit.edu for further details and to apply.
Deadline: 10th February 2010.
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