The Kendall Square Phenomenon

摘要

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.