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Lemelson-MIT Releases 2011 Invention Index The Lemelson-MIT Program released its 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index survey on youth attitudes toward inventing. The good news is young people ages 16-25 have a high regard for inventors and inventing. The bad news is there are still a lot of misconceptions and stereotypes. Here’s what the index found: Inventors [...]
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) announced the launch of the Global Innovation Initiative (GII), a program designed to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) educators and students in solving the problems of global poverty in environmentally and economically sustainable ways. Focusing especially on STEM Education, the NCIIA and its partners seek [...]
Laura Schoppe, president of Fuentek, an award-winning intellectual property and technology management consulting firm. The North Carolina-based company helps large clients (sorry, kitchen-gadget inventors need not apply) find new markets and applications for existing and new technologies. Schoppe is concerned that society is not doing enough to foster science, technology, engineering and math. So earlier [...]
If you believe fostering a culture of innovation begins with nurturing America’s interest in science, technology, engineering and math – aka STEM – then brace yourself for some good news. According to this year’s Lemelson-MIT Invention Index, an annual survey that gauges Americans’ perceptions about invention and innovation, 77 percent of teens are interested in [...]
