WATERSHED ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Founded by Arthur D. Little in 1886, MIT Entrepreneurship in particular, has played a pivotal role in catalyzing the success of the entrepreneur. This project begins with MIT’s rich culture in entrepreneurship. It seeks to expand the entrepreneurial innovative capacity to include ecological systems as essential tools for invention. By mapping these two systems (entrepreneurship and the watershed) onto one another, their synthesis creates a new set of programs and opportunities we have coined ‘Watershed Entrepreneurship’. Defined as the act and art of transforming ecologically performative systems into successful innovations that benefit both the individual and the collective, Watershed Entrepreneurship re-frames policy, human agency, and place-making to privilege individual entrepreneurial, capitalist attitudes and simultaneously a collective civic vision capable of improving the quality of water and reducing the quantity of run-off. 

Authorship (Academic-MIT): Emily Williamson, under the direction of Professor James Wescoat.