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Harvard makes foray into start-up scene with i-lab

By Mary Carmichael

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 18, 2011

Today Harvard University will open its innovation lab, an incubator for start-ups intended to infuse the freewheeling ethos of Silicon Valley into America’s oldest college. The lab, housed in the former WGBH building, will serve as a midwife to students and local residents developing small businesses. It is Harvard’s first building to open in Allston, the site of the biggest expansion in the school’s history.

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