Innovation

On January 31, Fast Company’s blog featured an article on female entrepreneurship and inventiveness, using the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index as a springboard for a larger story that focused on a couple of former NCIIA E-Teams – Solar Ivy and the DayOne Waterbag – that were commercializing products to improve lives. The post also featured an interview…

Yesterday, President Obama announced the launch of the Startup America initiative, a partnership of 20 organizations dedicated to increasing U.S. competitiveness. As part of this, our grantee the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) will award nearly one million dollars in grants to 23 universities in 14 states over the next two months. The…

Our friends at the Lemelson-MIT Program have released their annual Invention Index which shows the untapped group of potential inventors in the U.S. The 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index1, announced today, indicates that American women ages 16 – 25 possess many characteristics necessary to become inventors, such as creativity, interest in science and math, desire to develop altruistic…

Last week, Foundation grantee Living Goods was profiled by FastCompany.com. “How Health Care Nonprofit Living Goods Learned a Lesson From Avon Ladies” chronicles the founding of the East African health services pioneer and their unique model of community health supporters. Read the full article here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1709280/how-healthcare-nonprofit-living-goods-learned-a-lesson-from-avon-ladies About Living Goods Living Goods is an Avon-like network of…

The Foundation and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance were featured today in an article entitled, “The Lemelson Foundation: Tinkerers Saving the World,”on FastCompany.com. Written by Fast Company Expert Blogger Alice Korngold, the article explores how companies emerge from university environments and features information about three exciting NCIIA projects – OsmoPure, OneBreath and Solar Ivy…

Cambridge, Mass.,— Today, two Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams were among more than a dozen teams from around the country that presented their winning work at a White House Science Fair. The fair celebrates the winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions, including students from the Cesar Chavez High School InvenTeam in Laveen, Arizona and…

Portland, OR and New York, NY– The Lemelson Foundation this week announced three commitments during the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York City, pledging a total of $4.5 million to Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers, the Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT) and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). The Lemelson Foundation, which…

Congratulations to our friends at D.light Design, who are having a fantastic run the last couple of weeks. On June 24, it was announced they had just closed a $5.5 million (USD) Series B financing round, led by the Omidyar Network. To follow that up, on July 1, D.light Design was awarded the prestigious Ashden Award for Sustainable…

Portland, OR– For the second year in a row, Oregon MESA’s (Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement) teams placed near the top in the MESA National Engineering Design Competition. The middle school team from Ockley Green School placed second overall, and the high school team from Franklin High School placed third overall in the annual competition that…

New York, NY – Congratulations to the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) team from Johns Hopkins University for winning this year’s Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award (BMEidea) Competition—a national competition celebrating student biomedical innovation. The BMEidea Competition, now in its sixth year, is open to collegiate teams from NCIIA member institutions from…