Innovations XX Chilean Congress of Engineering Education

Innovation Goals Develop students’ professional judgment Encourage creativity Foster entrepreneurship Prepare for the global practice of engineering

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS ALLIANCE (413) Invention to Venture Workshops The NCIIA's acclaimed technology entrepreneurship workshops for faculty, students, and others involved in bringing ideas to marketInvention to Venture Workshops NCIIA 11th Annual Meeting March 22-24, 2007 Tampa, FLNCIIA 11th Annual Meeting Olympus Innovation Awards program Login to learn more or nominate for an Olympus Innovation Award, Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award, or Olympus Lifetime of Education Innovation AwardOlympus Innovation Awards program Login

Sustainable Vision Grants New from the NCIIA! The NCIIA is delighted to announce the arrival of Sustainable Vision, our newest grants program. These exploratory grants of up to $50,000 will support the creation of new US and international initiatives and will help define transferable and replicable models for effective and sustainable technology entrepreneurship. Sustainable Vision grants will fund innovative educational programs that move ideas to commercialization for the benefit of the environment and people in need. The grants will support enrichment and deepening of ongoing programs by building and strengthening interpersonal and inter- institutional networks, and creating new initiatives within existing programs. We are also pleased to announce the fall 2006 issue of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering (IJSLE) is now available. We hope many of you will read and become contributors to this new resource. The journal, which is hosted by the College of Engineering at Penn State and is sponsored by NCIIA, may be found at:

Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education  Gathers business, science and engineering faculty from leading universities around the globe with the goal of accelerating entrepreneurship education for scientists and engineers.  Offers opportunity to for established entrepreneurship programs to share their success stories, and for new and established programs to learn how to enhance their offerings.  Sponsored by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program within the School of Engineering which is dedicated to accelerating high-technology entrepreneurship research and education for engineers and scientists world wide.  See for more details.

Collegiate Entrepreneurship “ Helping universities become more entrepreneurial – not only in what they teach and how they teach it, but in how they operate – is at the heart of the Kauffman Foundation’s work. We recognize that university environments are natural breeding grounds for creativity, the exchange of ideas, and the synthesis of those elements into new ways of looking at and studying things – in some cases resulting in the emergence of entirely new academic fields.” Kauffman Foundation

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Lemelson Foundation ………..celebrates and supports inventors and entrepreneurs to strengthen social and economic life. 3iVision (inspiring invention & innovation) is the web channel devoted to invention and innovation—presenting a wide choice of video clips from Lemelson Foundation and funded program's events. Programming includes the "Innovative Lives" series of lectures, the "March Madness of the Mind" E-Teams competitions, and biographies of Lemelson-MIT Prize winners. Historical footage is archived and searchable. New movies are added frequently.3iVision In his interview for the "Inventors" series on the Discovery Channel, Jerome Lemelson stated:"What I consider to be one of my best innovations...an E-Team is a group of students who train to go into business and develop products in the future while at school."E-Team A common thread running through Foundation programs is students working in teams to gain practical experience in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The Lemelson Foundation calls this approach "E-Teams" (for excellence and entrepreneurship), and pursues the wider adoption of this approach through its funded programs.E-Teams