Fiona Murray

“Accelerating Innovation,” which will be released by MIT Press on April 29, guides leaders through engagement with innovation ecosystems so they can better derive value from both external actors and internal resources. Phil Budden and Fiona Murray, faculty directors of the MIT-United Kingdom program, discuss five stakeholder types in these ecosystems that they identified in their research: research institutions, entrepreneurs, corporations, investors, and governments.

The European Union and the United Kingdom must build shared defense capabilities to help the region meet the security challenges ahead, argues Fiona Murray, faculty director of the Center's MIT-UK program and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan.

Fiona Murray, faculty director of the Center's MIT-UK program and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, argues that dual-use must be understood as a strategy with clear language and strategic framework.

European leaders, from Emmanuel Macron to Mario Draghi, have called for the European Union to create its own version of the United States government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. But this is not a new idea, and attempted clones on the continent have failed to achieve their full potential. Read the latest from Fiona Murray, faculty director of MIT-United Kingdom.

For the US and, especially, its allies in NATO, a particular problem has emerged: a “missing middle” in technology investment. ... Without this middle-ground commitment, the United States and its partners lack the production know-how that will be crucial for tomorrow’s batteries, the next generation of advanced computing, alternative solar photovoltaic cells, and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Read the latest from Fiona Murray, who is the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan and the faculty director of the Center's MIT-UK Program.