The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance is seeking proposals that support innovation, invention, and entrepreneurship programs in U.S. colleges and universities. Grants support student inventions and projects, and faculty course development.
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) is a unique interdisciplinary educational program started in 1995 with the generous support of The Lemelson Foundation. The mission of the NCIIA is to nurture a new generation of innovators, to foster and promote the teaching of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship at colleges and universities nationwide.
The NCIIA helps to prepare students to be inventors and entrepreneurs by providing support to higher ed institutions through its unique grants program and resources network, supporting inventive undergraduate projects and faculty curriculum development of programs focusing on commercially directed innovation.
The primary mechanism in this effort is the E-Team (the "E" stands for excellence and entrepreneurship). An E-Team is a group of students, faculty and mentoring professionals who pursue the development of an idea or invention with the desired result to be the licensing of new products, technologies or the startup of entrepreneurial ventures.
For more information: http://www.nciia.org
phone: 413-587-2172 or info@nciia.org
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