Innovation Alchemy: Industry and Academia with Lori Glover

In this episode

From sports drinks to self-driving cars, some of the most transformative innovations have emerged when universities and businesses join forces. In this episode, host Kara Miller talks with Lori Glover, author of Innovation Alchemy and Managing Director of Global Strategic Alliances at MIT CSAIL, about the surprising ways academic research and industry collaboration shape technology, talent, and the global economy.


Together, they explore stories from the invention of Gatorade to modern AI research, the challenges of aligning two very different cultures, and how partnerships can spark unexpected breakthroughs, sometimes changing entire industries.


Whether you’re curious about how new ideas move from the lab to the marketplace or want to learn why companies and universities need each other more than ever, this episode offers a deep look into the evolving innovation ecosystem at the juncture of academia and industry.
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About the speakers

Lori Glover
Managing Director, MIT CSAIL Alliances
Executive Director, FinTechAI@CSAIL
Executive Director, MIT Future of Data
Executive Director, MachineLearningApplications@CSAIL

Lori Glover leads global partnerships and alliances for MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) – the largest lab at MIT with over 1000 researchers and 60 research groups. She is responsible for corporate and organizational engagement with the lab through the CSAIL Alliance Program, research initiatives, the Visiting Industry Researcher program, start-ups and technology ecosystem, professional development programs and talent acquisition/recruiting within CSAIL. She also serves as Executive Director of FinTech@CSAIL, MachineLearningApplications@CSAIL and MIT’s Future of Data, Trust and Policy Initiative.

Lori also a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society of Engineering Education, College and Industry Partnership Division, the Advisory Board of EBSCO and the Massachusetts Cyber Education and Training Consortium (CETC). 

She often speaks on research advances and their impact to industry at conferences and professional associations as well as on the development of successful industry-academic partnerships both nationally and internationally.

She holds a Juris Doctor and has also practiced law as a member of both the bar in both Massachusetts and Florida.