Ecuadorian company bioFeeder selected to host MIT Sloan Global Entrepreneurship Lab projects
厄瓜多尔公司bioFeeder被选为麻省理工学院斯隆全球创业实验室项目的东道主
Jan 17, 2020
2020年1月17日
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Now in its 20th year, ‘G-Lab’ helps to promote entrepreneurship across Ecuador
“G-Lab”成立20年来，帮助厄瓜多尔各地促进创业精神
Cambridge, Mass., January 17, 2020— It’s a company poised to expand locally and globally and interested in exploring how best to take that next significant step. Now, bioFeeder has been selected to host a Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory (G-Lab) project in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management, founder of the international entrepreneurial program. The company was chosen based on their business model, growth potential, and success to date.
马萨诸塞州剑桥市，2020年1月17日-这家公司准备在本地和全球扩张，并有兴趣探索如何最好地迈出下一个重要步骤。现在，bioFeeder被选中与麻省理工学院斯隆管理学院（MIT Sloan School of Management）合作，主持一个全球创业实验室（G-Lab）项目，该学院是国际创业计划的创始人。这家公司是根据他们的商业模式、增长潜力和迄今为止的成功而选择的。
A team of MBA students from MIT Sloan—one of the world’s top-ranked business schools—will be working on-site at bioFeeder throughout January to provide them with high-impact insight and analysis.
麻省理工学院斯隆商学院（MIT Sloan）的MBA学生组成的团队将在今年1月在bioFeeder现场工作，为他们提供高影响力的洞察力和分析。
This year marks G-Lab’s 20th anniversary. Since 2000, nearly 2,500 MIT Sloan G-Lab students have worked with host companies on 643 projects at 482 startups in emerging and frontier markets in 54 countries. To date, approximately five other G-Lab projects have been hosted in startups and companies across Ecuador.
今年是G-Lab成立20周年。自2000年以来，近2500名麻省理工斯隆G-Lab的学生在54个国家的482家新兴市场和前沿市场的初创企业中，与主办公司合作了643个项目。到目前为止，大约五个其他G-LAB项目已经在厄瓜多尔的初创公司和公司托管。
When determining project scope, host companies draw from a broad spectrum of business challenges such as growth, new market entry, pricing, marketing, benchmarking, fundraising, and financial strategy. G-Lab strongly emphasizes concrete “leave-behinds” as a primary component of the teams’ project deliverables. In the process, the MBA students gain real-world experience in creating, developing and running young enterprises with diverse economic infrastructures as well as thinking about the role of politics, culture, and other non-economic variables.
在确定项目范围时，东道主公司从广泛的业务挑战中汲取经验，如增长、新市场进入、定价、营销、基准、筹资和财务战略。G-Lab强烈强调具体的“落后”是团队项目交付成果的主要组成部分。在这个过程中，MBA学生获得了创造、发展和经营具有多样化经济基础设施的年轻企业的现实经验，以及思考政治、文化和其他非经济变量的作用。
Meet the company and G-Lab project
会见公司和G-Lab项目
bioFeeder has developed an automated shrimp feeder and accompanying software. The system consists of a network of intelligent cloud-controlled feeders with algorithms designed to optimize the shrimp feed cycle. It was developed with the latest technology in electronics, mechanics and telecommunications.
生物饲料公司开发了一种自动虾饲料和配套软件。该系统由一个智能云控饲料网络和优化虾饲料周期的算法组成。它是用电子、机械和电信领域的最新技术开发的。
bioFeeder has asked the G-Lab team first to assess the market and generate perspectives on the future expansion of their product. Second, they’ve asked the G-Lab team to develop an idea for a financing structure and opportunities that allow them to grow while continuing to offer their feeders via a Hardware as a Service (HaaS) model.
bioFeeder已要求G-Lab团队首先评估市场，并对其产品的未来扩张提出展望。其次，他们要求G-Lab团队开发一个融资结构和机会的想法，使他们能够在继续通过硬件即服务（Hardware-as-as-Service，HaaS）模式提供饲料的同时增长。
Action Learning
行动学习
“Across Ecuador, smart people are running good companies and looking to create more good jobs,” says MIT Sloan Professor Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund who co-founded the program in 2000. “Over the past twenty years, it has been a privilege – and an education – for our students to find ways to be helpful. Everyone returns to the United States impressed with the energy and intensity of the CEOs in these companies.”
“在整个厄瓜多尔，聪明人都在经营好公司，并希望创造更多的好工作，”麻省理工学院斯隆（MIT Sloan）教授、国际货币基金组织（imf）前首 席经济学家西蒙•约翰逊（Simon Johnson）说，他于2000年共同创立了这一项目。“在过去的20年里，我们的学生有幸找到帮助他们的方法，这是一种教育。每个回到美国的人都对这些公司CEO们的精力和强度印象深刻。”
G-Lab—based on the MIT Sloan E-Lab model launched in 1992—is one of 15 pioneering Action Learning labs available to students at MIT Sloan. While project activities vary, they are united by common themes, including experiential, reflective, and peer learning; faculty mentoring; real-world problem solving; knowledge transfer; and, perhaps unique to MIT Sloan, a student team engagement intended to have a measurable business, which often includes a social impact. These real-time management challenges bring theory to life.
基于麻省理工学院斯隆电子实验室模型的G-Lab是麻省理工学院斯隆学院15个面向学生的先锋行动学习实验室之一。虽然项目活动各不相同，但它们是由共同的主题统一起来的，包括体验式、反思性和同伴学习；教员指导；现实世界的问题解决；知识转移；也许是麻省理工斯隆学院独有的，学生团队的参与旨在产生可测量的业务，通常包括社会影响。这些实时管理的挑战给理论带来了生机。
About the MIT Sloan School of Management
关于麻省理工斯隆管理学院
The MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, is one of the world’s leading academic sources of innovation in management theory and practice. With students from more than 60 countries, it develops effective, innovative, and principled leaders who advance the global economy.
麻省理工斯隆管理学院位于美国马萨诸塞州剑桥市，是世界上管理理论和实践创新的主要学术来源之一。它拥有来自60多个国家的学生，培养出高效、创新和有原则的领导人，推动全球经济的发展。
