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BOSTON — MIT President Rafael Raif wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post last year titled “A better way to deliver innovation to the world.” The op-ed called for a new way to support innovation by forming a coalition of funders from the public, for-profit and not-for-profit sectors “that could work together to establish ‘innovation orchards.'”
On Wednesday, MIT announced that it will launch an ambitious startup accelerator, called The Engine, with the purpose of fostering startups “working…