Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard

The Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) is spurring the development of a science of innovation through a systematic program of solving real-world technical challenges while simultaneously conducting rigorous scientific research and analysis. While our website is under construction, please visit the Crowd Innovation Lab website for on our previous work as the Crowd Innovation Lab/NASA Tournament Lab. LISH is a Harvard-wide research program lead by faculty co-directors Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School; Eva Guinan, Harvard Medical School; and David Parkes, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; with support from the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. With our partners in both academia and industry, LISH conducts research on innovation in three main areas: Incentives & Governance, Creativity & Problem Solving, and Organization & Processes; applied within five areas of application: Contests & Communities, Science Laboratories & R&D Organizations, Technology Commercialization, Data Science, and Patient Innovation.