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The Kendall Square Phenomenon

2013· article· en· W2993942050 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueResearch-Technology Management · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBiotechnology and Related Fields
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSquare (algebra)Competitor analysisFace (sociological concept)ManagementBusinessPublic relationsMarketingSociologyPolitical scienceEconomicsSocial scienceMathematics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Perched at the Western edge of the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kendall Square is a hive of technological activity. Start-ups in biotechnology, computer science, and social networking share space with research laboratories of established pharmaceutical and engineering firms, MIT spillover centers, and offices of overseas governments such as Britain and, recently, Canada. Now the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), the organization responsible for attracting start-up firms to the square and incubating them there, is expanding its operations, setting up extra centers as far afield as St. Louis and Baltimore by the end of the year. It is also in talks to establish an overseas outpost in England. For established high-technology firms, the Kendall Square phenomenon represents both threat and promise. On one hand, they face the threat of losing market share to nimble new competitors schooled in the entrepreneurial atmosphere of the square and equipped with a network of colleagues from that environment. On the other hand, they welcome the opportunities to enter new industrial sectors created by the start-ups, and the chance to recruit individuals familiar with the environment and the technologies it has stimulated. Major Technology Presence Corporate inhabitants of Kendall Square enjoy an intellectual ambience stimulated by nearby research universities. MIT is literally next door, and tenants can easily visit colleagues at Harvard University just up the road, Boston University and Boston College across the Charles River, and Tufts University in the nearby town of Medford. They can also recruit technicians and other scientific personnel from local institutions more focused on engineering and technology, such as Northeastern University and the Wentworth Institute of Technology, both in Boston. Largely as a result of that academic concentration, Kendall Square houses the headquarters or research units of several major technology companies, particularly in the biomedical sector. The list includes biotechnology firm Biogen Idec; biomedical giant Johnson & Johnson; and pharmaceutical companies Novartis, Pfizer, and Sanofi Aventis. IT firms Google and Microsoft have a presence there, as do such nonprofit centers as the Broad Institute, which focuses on biomedical and genomic studies; the Rowland Institute for Science, which carries out a variety of interdisciplinary research; and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. The density of technology firms also persuaded the British government to locate the office of its Consulate General in the square rather than in Boston. The combination of universities and technology companies has made Kendall Square a magnet for technology start-ups. Nanobiosym, a company focused on the innovative integration of physics, biomedicine, and nanotechnology recently moved into the square from a Boston suburb; Founder and CEO Anita Goel explains the location's appeal: Everyone's within a mile of us here. You go into the restaurants and coffee shops, and you'll find people who'll discuss scientific issues with you. Start-ups brought into the square by the CIC echo those comments. Our clients frequently tell us that shoulder-rubbing among the investors and other emerging companies located in the center makes CIC an enjoyable place to work, says CIC chief executive Tim Rowe. While there is no expectation to do so, we find clients frequently choose to interact and leverage each other's expertise and networks to uncover new opportunities and build new relationships. Growing Innovative Companies CIC aims to encourage the growth of innovative companies, in addition to rental office space and computational and business services in its multistory building near the center of the square, the center also offers symposia, meetings, and other events, and it has a financial interest in early-stage venture capital funds located in the square. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.858
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.309 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it