Reading list - What makes MIT tick?

Michael Kenward

Route 128 may have become a run-of-the-mill strip of expensive Boston real estate, but the myth still looms large. It is where the technology boom of the last half of the 20^th century got going. It is the strip that launched a thousand articles. Silicon Valley is an upstart in comparison.

How did this Boston, or Cambridge Massachusetts if you want to be picky, drag come about? Was it really all down to MIT and its bright scientists? If so, is there anything we can all learn from the place? Like bribing a load of future Nobel laureates to move in and lift the neighbourhood?

MIT is, after all, the institution that Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer and Prime Minister “in waiting,” turned to for lessons in how to turn research...

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