I love the NCIIA conference. I always return with many ideas to pursue.
- Hal Fried, Professor of Economics, Union College
March 22-24, 2012
NCIIA's 16th Annual Conference, exploring the science,
business and practice of catalyzing innovation
in higher education.
- Students, $350
- Presenters, $600
- NCIIA members, $750
- Non-NCIIA members, $900
- One day, $295
- Open Minds exhibition only, $75
Steve Blank, leading Silicon Valley entrepreneur, UC Berkeley and Stanford University faculty member and founder of the Lean LaunchPad method will deliver the keynote speech on Friday during lunch.
- Best practices for programs and teaching entrepreneurship
- Nifty assignments in entrepreneurship education
- Commercialization of student ventures
- Women in entrepreneurship
- Intellectual property
- Topics related to primarily undergraduate institutions
- Projects that failed and lessons learned
- Affordable design
- Sustainability and social impact
- Student perspectives on innovation and entrepreneurship
- Workshops focused on high impact, actionable items faculty can use in their teaching
Each year we showcase NCIIA's best student innovation teams at
Open Minds.
Brilliance
Stanford University
A low cost, low maintenance opto-medical device that uses high intensity LEDs for the treatment of jaundice
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GiraDora and Balde a Balde
Art Center College of Design
A portable faucet that provides running water from any container, and a human-powered washer and spin dryer to increase the efficiency and improve the experience of hand-washing clothes
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IntelliWheels, INC.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
After-market additions to off-the-shelf wheelchairs that decreases the effort it takes to propel them
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GRIT Leveraged Freedom Chair
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A lever-powered mobility aid designed for the use in developing countries
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Medtric Biotech, LLC
Purdue University
Developing an innovative, environmentally friendly anti-infection technology
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The Integrated Punch Biopsy
Johns Hopkins University
An all-in-one skin biopsy device that efficiently and safely transects and retrieves the skin sample
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Strong Arm Ergonomic Lifting Safety System
Rochester Institute of Technology
A form-fitting garment that incorporates a unique system of load-bearing straps that allows workers to lift heavy objects more easily and with significantly less risk of injury
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Inserogen
University of California, Davis
Developing SwiftVax, a plant-based production platform that produces animal and human vaccines efficiently and affordably
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MetCel
Oklahoma State University
Developing a Hybrid Composite Armor stand-alone insert that is capable of significantly reducing Behind Armor Blunt Trauma (BABT)
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NextDrop
University of California, Berkeley
Leveraging the recent proliferation of mobile phones in India to provide households with accurate and timely information about when piped water will become available in their area
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Cal Poly Civil Engineering Students
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Developing earthquake-resistant,inexpensive interlocking compressed earth block (ICEB) construction
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Miret Surgical
Stanford University
A modular, minimally invasive surgical system
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Project Agrow
IIT Bombay
Developing a low cost, manually operated machine that enables de-cortication and de-husking of raw peanuts to deliver clean peanut kernels
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The Harker Innovation Team
A Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam
A high school student team developing an Aquatic Thermoelectric Generator to produce energy from heat
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