The Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) is conducting research and creating evidence-based approaches to problem-solving. Researchers at LISH are identifying the best way to approach a problem, starting with problem formulation, and experimenting with solvers on the best way to find solutions.
Key Questions
How does the nature of the problem to be solved impact the most optimal problem-solving approaches to be used?
How can problems be best formulated so that outsiders can help solve them?
How does diversity in knowledge and skills impact problem-solving?
Can creativity be enhanced through teams and/or exposure to peers?
These four research questions frame projects in this track, pushing the boundaries of medical imaging and computational biology through artificial intelligence and algorithm development, extensive crowdsourcing work with NASA and other federal agencies, and using data science to help create a history of the partition of British India. See below for more information on each of the individual projects in this research track.
NASA Tournament Lab
The NASA Tournament Lab was originally established in 2010 as a joint initiative between NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), Harvard Business School, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, to design and field challenges and contests… Read more