National Academy of Inventors’ Fellow nominations

From: LICENSE, Center for Tech Commercialization

LICENSE’s National Academy of Inventors nomination committee actively seeks, considers, and supports Virginia Tech faculty for induction into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow designation, which is deemed prestigious by the National Research Council. 

Nominate a NAI Fellow through April 1, 2025 by emailing link@vt.edu.

Fellows 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. Typical nominees are faculty with a minimum of 20 U.S. patents issued.

Virginia Tech is one of the 260 Member Institutions within the NAI network made up of academic, governmental, and non-profit 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.