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Based in Portland, Oregon, the foundation has donated or committed over $300 million to support education, invention, innovation, and climate action. [7] In addition to supporting programs that assist inventors and supporting science and technology education in the U.S., the foundation broadened its mission to include fostering technological innovation that drives economic and social ...
The Lemelson–MIT Program awards several prizes yearly to inventors in the United States.The largest is the Lemelson–MIT Prize which was endowed in 1994 by Jerome H. Lemelson, funded by the Lemelson Foundation, and is administered through the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is a US non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging inventors in academia, following the model of the National Academies of the United States. [1] It was founded at the University of South Florida in 2010. Starting in 2012, the NAI has inducted 757 Fellows into the organization. [2]
The UIF program was created in 2012 as part of an Epicenter (the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation) grant, founded as a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded STEM center and directed by Stanford University, Stanford Technology Ventures Program (Stanford University School of Engineering's entrepreneurship center), VentureWell, and the National Collegiate Inventors and ...
It was renamed as the General Motors Institute of Technology (General Motors Tech) and eventually the General Motors Institute in 1932. [2] [ 6 ] Once referred to as the " West Point of the Automobile industry," [ 7 ] GMI focused on a cooperative education model that combined classroom learning with real-world job experience [ 8 ] (following ...
Dean Lawrence Kamen (/ ˈ k eɪ m ɪ n /; born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, [2] as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. [3] [4] Kamen holds over 1,000 patents. [5]
Social psychologist, founder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology: M. Brewster Smith: 1939 (Did not graduate) Professor of psychology, University of Chicago, past president of the American Psychological Association who testified against segregation in schools as an expert witness in the Brown v. Board of Education case. Harry Harlow: N/A
The International company of Inventors' (IFIA) is a non-profit, nongovernmental organization founded in London under the supervision of the United Nations, on July 11, 1968, by inventors of Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. [5]