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The NCIIA: Promoting Student Inventors

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 15:34

The NCIIA is featured in BusinessWeek: NCIIA: Promoting Student Inventors.

"It's March Madness time, all right. But the competition in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington had absolutely nothing to do with basketball. This annual event, March Madness for the Mind, is organized by the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), a network of more than 200 universities that promote innovation by underwriting and mentoring teams of college student inventors."

Don't miss the slideshow of student E-Teams and their inventions.

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The NCIIA provides funding and support to help U.S. student innovators move their technology ideas from lab to market, creating ventures that produce positive social and environmental impacts. NCIIA helps universities build cultures of innovation and entrepreneurship by funding new programs and emerging ventures, training faculty and student innovators, and offering 2 million dollars of annual support for technology innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education.

For media inquiries, please contact Tim Binkert: tbinkert@nciia.org, 413-587-2172 ext 104.

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NCIIA grantee Socialite featured in NY Times

Submitted by tim on Friday 3rd of February 2012 10:21:23 AM
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An E-Team from Cooper Union has been developing Socialite, a solar lantern for the poor, for several years. The product was recently featured in a NY Times opinion piece, "Innovations in Light."

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Social Innovation Boot Camp in the news

Submitted by tim on Wednesday 1st of February 2012 04:22:56 PM
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The Social Innovation Boot Camp, held at the University of Texas in January, received a write up from McCombs Today. NCIIA guided a number of teams in developing their social venture ideas.

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Sproxil featured on ZDNet

Submitted by tim on Tuesday 31st of January 2012 04:35:30 PM
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Former E-Team Sproxil, makers of a cell phone system that prevents the sale and use of counterfeit drugs, was recently featured on the tech news site ZDNet. Read "Using the lowly text message to fight counterfeit drugs."

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Former E-Team Ecovative Design and Sealed Air Corporation team up

Submitted by tim on Friday 27th of January 2012 11:20:39 AM
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Former E-Team Ecovative Design LLC and Sealed Air Corporation have announced they will work together to accelerate the production, sales and distribution of Ecovative’s EcoCradle® Mushroom™ Packaging, an environmentally responsible packaging material made from agricultural byproducts and mycelium, or mushroom roots. The technology was developed in part with a 2007 E-Team grant.

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Best of 2010: NCIIA in the news

Submitted by dave on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:02

    

From Popular Science to Voice of America, from new companies and products and the launch of the Global Innovation Initiative to our new student ambassadors, NCIIA and its grantees were news stories in 2010.

Global vision
•Launching the Global Innovation Initiative
•GOOD Magazine: Change agents wanted

Celebrating innovative companies
•OneBreath ventilator: Popular Science Invention Awards
•The Good Guide: Fast Company's most innovative companies
•Solar Ivy: Popular Science 'Solar Panels that Mimic Ivy'
•Lifeserve Innovations: BusinessWeek's best young entrepreneurs

Harnessing the power of students to change the world
•Inventors Digest 'Power 2.0'
•InventorSpot 'NCIIA Initiates Student Ambassador Program'

•Voice of America 'Student Inventors Show Innovation'. Watch VoA's segment about the 2010 Open Minds showcase of NCIIA's best student teams>>>over there!>>>

Here are more of our success stories. Hope you enjoy these as much as we do!

 

 

 

Newsletters

  • Fall 2010
    • Global Innovation Initiative launched at Clinton Global Initiative
    • Spotlight on Greenlight Planet and OneBreath
  • Spring 2010
    • VentureLab launched in Boston
    • Spotlight on Whole Tree E-Team
       
  • Fall 2009
    • Overview of events at Open 2010
    • Spotlight on clean energy E-Teams focused on residential markets
       
  • Spring 2009
    • Results from first annual Venture Well Forum
    • Spotlight on GoodGuide and World Health Imaging Alliance
       
  • Fall 2008
    • Announcing Venture Well and Venture Well Forum
    • Spotlight on venture-funded E-Teams: Intelliject and Endoluminal Sciences
       
  • Spring 2008
    • A look at the Advanced Invention to Venture program expansion
    • Spotlight on Ecovative Design E-Team
       
  • Fall 2007
    • Inaugural Innovation Showcase (I-Show) semi-finalists chosen
    • Spotlight on i-conserve E-Team
       
  • Spring 2007
    • Results of Sustainable Vision pilot run
    • Spotlight on Olympus Innovation Award winner Deborah Streeter
       
  • Fall 2006
    • New programs: Advanced I2V, Sustainable Vision grants
    • Spotlight on AnemiCAM E-Team
       
  • Spring 2006
    • March Madness for the Mind preview
    • Olympus Award winners: John Ochs, John Kleppe, and Michael Lovell
       
  • Fall 2005
    • Featured E-Teams: BMEidea Winners
    • Spotlight on Steve Nichols and the Olympus Innovation Award
       
  • Spring 2005
    • Sustainable technology programs at MIT and Stanford
    • Spotlight on Axon Labs E-Team
       
  • Fall 2004
    • Assessment
    • Spotlight on MobileLime E-Team
       
  • Spring 2004
    • Early stage funding with angel investors
    • Spotlight on Polytorx E-Team
       
  • Fall 2003
    • Introducing the Invention to Venture Workshop series
    • Spotlight on Fluent Systems E-Team
       
  • Spring 2003
    • Biomedical Forum in San Francisco
    • Featured Biomedical Courses, Programs, and E-Teams
       
  • Fall 2002
    • Big Ideas in a Small World: The NCIIA 7th Annual Meeting
    • Spotlight on UV Tube E-Team
       
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