The NAI was founded in 2010 to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, enhance the visibility
- f academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual
property, educate and mentor innovative students, and translate the inventions
- f its members to benefit society.
>250 Member Institutions >100 presidents and senior leaders of research universities and non-profit research institutes 29 Nobel Laureates 439 members of the other National Academies 36 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame 52 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology & Innovation, and U.S. National Medal of Science 261 AAAS Fellows, among other awards and distinctions. Membership in the NAI is available only through local university chapters. Chapter members are automatically enrolled as members of the NAI, with all rights and privileges thereof.