Submit National Academy of Inventors nominations

From: LICENSE, Center for Tech Commercialization

The LICENSE team nominates faculty for National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow or Senior Member designation, which are deemed prestigious by the National Research Council. 

The 2024 class nominations will be accepted through the LICENSE team until June 30.

To nominate a colleague or learn more about the process, contact Teresa McCoy at link@vt.edu.

• The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society. 

• NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists, and administrators with success in patents, licensing, and commercialization and have produced technologies that have brought or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. 

Virginia Tech is one of the 260 member institutions within the NAI network made up of academic, governmental, and nonprofit research institutions.

The National Academy of Inventors was founded to recognize and encourage inventors with U.S. patents, enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate and mentor innovative students, and to create wider public understanding of how its members’ inventions benefit society.