NCIIA Grants 2007-2008 Application Deadlines and Award Amounts Sustainable Vision grants ($10, 000- $50, 000) Deadline: Friday, October 17, 2008 Course & program grants $2, 000 - $50, 000) Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2008 and Friday, May 8, 2009 Advanced E-Team ($1,000 - $20,000) Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2008 and Friday, May 8, 2009

With support from The Lemelson Foundation, the NCIIA awards grants to its member institutions to support and strengthen invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship education through curricular development and the work of Advanced E-Teams. To check whether your college or university is a member or to renew your membership, please click here.

We award grants in three major categories:

Course and Program Grants are awarded to faculty and staff at colleges and universities to help improve existing curricular programs or build new programs in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Course and program grants support creative pedagogy that generates E-Teams, bringing real life applications into the classroom setting and beyond. For Course and Program grant application guidelines, please click here.

Advanced E-Team Grants support commercial outcomes by moving innovative products or technologies from the idea stage to prototype, as well as helping collegiate innovators secure Intellectual Property. E-Teams’ grant proposals must demonstrate an idea’s technical feasibility, potential for commercialization and social value. The proposal should also involve students, faculty and outside (industry) advisors. For E-Team grant application guidelines, please click here.

Sustainable Vision Grants support innovative educational programs based at U.S. institutions of higher education. These programs move ideas to commercialization while addressing basic human needs such as health, food, security, clean water and affordable energy for people living in poverty in the U.S. or abroad. Grant recipients partner with a non-profit, for-profit educational or governmental organizations to plan and implement precuts or services in an economically sustainable way. For Sustainable Vision grant guidelines, please click here.

Other grant categories: The NCIIA provides resource and experimental grants for new initiatives that will develop into useful resources for the NCIIA community and beyond. Sponsorship grants go to organizations that share similar objectives and are targeted towards events related to technology entrepreneurship. These grants are provided on a case-by-case basis, by written request. Contact the NCIIA to learn more.