Patient centricity and cultural nativity are at the core of the GCL and guide the creation of transformational technologies, new business opportunities, and contribute to innovation ecosystem development.

GCL work will focus in four clinical areas: brain, cardiovascular, kidney, and infectious disease. Our combined expertise, principles, and clinical focus areas converge in Affinity Groups

Through collaborations that integrate diverse expertise and organizations, GCL orchestrates new health innovation-driven enterprises in communities where they can achieve early traction and enables them to later scale in the general marketplace.

The Global CoCreation Lab manifests a vision shared by MIT and Miami-Dade County, to align strengths and directly influence the health and economic wellbeing of a community of millions. 

MIT: dedicated to advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. 

Miami: where today we see a glimpse of America’s future—urban, diverse, and a gateway to South America and Europe. It’s also where we see some of America’s greatest health challenges—an aging population, prevalent chronic diseases that rob families and communities of happiness and economic stability, and increasingly vulnerable to the threats of infectious disease.

The Global CoCreation Lab activates the energy and ideas of MIT and Miami and leverages their global networks to orchestrate new health innovation-driven enterprises in communities where they can achieve early traction, and to help them scale for maximum benefit.

Community focus

The overarching thesis of the Global Cocreation Lab responds to the question of how a research university can collaborate horizontally in a community, helping to advance its economic fabric and human condition. The focus on Miami-Dade County is our answer.

Precompetitive collaboration

Healthcare innovation through entrepreneurship is a moral imperative that is best realized in an environment where resources, knowledge, and experience are collectively pooled for the betterment of a community. This framework allows for collaboration in projects that do not define the partners’ individual competitive advantages. This principle of precompetitive pooling created the Japanese ASIC market, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing market, and the Chinese chip foundry market.

Socially responsible entrepreneurship

Disruption is a common theme across those taking business risk today. The Global CoCreation Lab frames disruption in the context of its impact on those disrupted, by creating new opportunities for those that become redundant by the displacing effect of new technologies.