Invention Awards/Contests

Awards, Contests, and Prizes for Innovation and Invention

"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller.

"If your not living on the edge, your taking up too much space" - anon

The will to win means nothing without the will to *prepare* to win. -- Bobby Knight (of Indiana basketball fame)

Invention Contests

  • DePaul University/Coleman Foundation Creativity Contest
    An inventor/entrepreneaur/innovator award. Novel ideas and business plans are evaluated. The deadline is January, 1996 for a prize of $1,500. More information is available at:
    Harold Welsch
    DePaul University
    1 E. Jackson, Chicago, IL 60604
    (312) 362-8471

  • The BF Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Program
    A contest for full-time USA university students. Different levels of competition exists for undergraduate and graduate students. More information at:
    National Invention Center
    80 West Bowery, Suite 201
    Akron, OH 44308
    (800) 968-4332

  • Intellectual Property Owners National Inventor of the Year Award
    A contest for America's most outstanding current inventor. The deadline is March, 1996 for a prize of $5,000. More information is available at (202) 466-2396

  • Lemelson-MIT Prize
    An award honoring Americans who have demonstrated excellence and achievement in creativity, invention, or innovation in medicine and health care, energy and te environment, tlecommunications and computing, consumer products, durable goods and industrial products. This years deadline is September for a prize of $500,000. More information is available at:
    Lemelson-MIT Prize Program
    Sloan School of Management-E38-129
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.

  • Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design
    Chee Pearlman, & Michael Sorkin, Chrysler awards six $10,000 grants in recognition of individuals and firms who have pioneered the frontiers of design. The award is particularly oriented toward work that is both adventurous andsocially relevant.

  • IDEA, the Industrial Design ExcellenceAwards
    Sponsored by Business Week and the Industrial Designers Society of America. Winners are prominently featured inBusiness Week and seen by millions of magazine readers each year.


    • Entrepreneurial Contests

  • New Venture Competition
    An business plan/presentation competition. Novel business plans and presentations by various university students from across the US are judged. More information is available from:
    James Barri
    University of Oregon & Bank of America
    Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship

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