Sep 21, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
Innovation can be defined as taking an idea to impact. Every product we use has made that trip from ideation, to discovery to eventually to market. That journey is its own kind of engineering. We…
Joe HadzimaGuest
John HarroldHost
If you think that's the only good idea you're ever going to have, you probably ought to go start the company.
But if you think you got some more, you might as well come here and figure out some more things you need to know before you really do that.
Today in the studio, we have Joe Hadzima, who is a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a part of the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship.
So here on the Science of Everyday Life, we like to talk about the underlying science and engineering of things that make up the world around us.
And you've been here at MIT, part of this economic epicenter for a long time, and you teach a course called The Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures, which is really just that for businesses.
Tell us about kind of what makes up a new company and what makes up entrepreneurship here.
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If you think that's the only good idea you're ever going to have, you probably ought to go start the company.
But if you think you got some more, you might as well come here and figure out some more things you need to know before you really do that.
Today in the studio, we have Joe Hadzima, who is a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a part of the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship.
So here on the Science of Everyday Life, we like to talk about the underlying science and engineering of things that make up the world around us.
And you've been here at MIT, part of this economic epicenter for a long time, and you teach a course called The Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures, which is really just that for businesses.
Tell us about kind of what makes up a new company and what makes up entrepreneurship here.