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Kendall Square Association Membership

Innovation is a team sport. All of us who are trying to do something big, need to do it together.”

Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT Professor, Biotech Founder, KSA Founders’ Award, 2024 Annual Meeting Celebration: Innovation for People + The Planet

Become a Member

KSA brings together the people and organizations who are committed to doing big things. The Kendall Square ecosystem is recognized throughout the world because science and innovation are born here. Purpose-driven people and organizations thrive on the energy and the collaboration, the willingness to work together  to solve the world’s biggest challenges. KSA builds on that energy. KSA nurtures the culture of collaboration here.

Become a Member

Member Benefits

Connections. Convenings. Amplification. Promotion. Collaboration. Advocacy. That’s what KSA membership is about.

KSA membership helps your organization thrive, grow, and connect with your neighbors in the Kendall Square ecosystem. From fun, thought-provoking, community-building events and programs to strategic collaboration and advocacy shaping our shared future, our members experience the best of this ecosystem.

  • Access to exclusive KSA events and programs on topics that matter

  • Amplification of your work in the KSA newsletter, on social media, and more

  • Advocacy for a vibrant, innovative, sustainable future in Kendall and beyond

  • Connections to those who share your purpose-driven “Kendall state of mind”

  • Opportunities for game-changing collaboration with your Kendall neighbors

  • Special Member Tours of Kendall’s Innovation Trail

  • Membership in a community focused on improving the human condition

  • Become a part of something bigger than any of us

You can count on KSA to bring our ecosystem together, and to advocate for a vibrant, sustainable future for all of us. KSA benefits your whole team. Every employee of every KSA member organization is a member.

Kendall Square is truly one-of-a-kind. This community’s openness to working together, to being challenged to pursuing something is why it’s unparalleled in its contribution to tackling some of the world’s biggest health challenges.”

Uli Stilz, KSA Board Member, Founder and Head, Novo Nordisk Bio Innovation Hub

105
Nobel Prize Laureates come from Kendall Square
365
Patents were awarded to MIT in 2023
16
Of the top 20 life science organizations have a presence in Kendall Square