Young Inventors International Inc. (YII) is a not-for-profit organization that helps engineering and science university students develop skills and networks to bring new ideas to the market. Our 1,800 members hold almost 700 patents and 70% of the students are in the process of building a start-up venture. We provide our members with interactive online and offline events, connections to media exposure, and extensive networks.
Our accomplishments include:
Four international conferences, most recently at MIT, featuring speakers such as John Abele (founder of Boston Scientific), Dr. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande (co-founder of Sycamore Networks), and Colin Angle (co-founder and CEO of iRobot)A special panel of our members at the Dow Jones Emerging Ventures Forum
Developing the BrainBuzz event - watch the video!
Members featured in Forbes.com, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum, Science Magazine Online, Boston Globe, MTV, National Public Radio, Inventors' Digest, Silicon Valley North, National Post and National Post Business Magazine, TVOntario, Toronto Star, and Glamour Magazine
Events supported by such technology leaders as Pratt & Whitney, MIT Technology Review, Xerox, Mitsubishi, and DuPont
Members who are winners of various competitions, such as the MIT Ideas Competition, competitors in the X-Prize
Our accomplishments include:
Four international conferences, most recently at MIT, featuring speakers such as John Abele (founder of Boston Scientific), Dr. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande (co-founder of Sycamore Networks), and Colin Angle (co-founder and CEO of iRobot)
Developing the BrainBuzz event - watch the video!
Members featured in Forbes.com, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum, Science Magazine Online, Boston Globe, MTV, National Public Radio, Inventors' Digest, Silicon Valley North, National Post and National Post Business Magazine, TVOntario, Toronto Star, and Glamour Magazine
Events supported by such technology leaders as Pratt & Whitney, MIT Technology Review, Xerox, Mitsubishi, and DuPont
Members who are winners of various competitions, such as the MIT Ideas Competition, competitors in the X-Prize
News and Events
Project Olympus will host YII's fifth international conference at Carnegie Mellon University on April 3rd and 4th, 2009. Find out more!
YII's president, Anne Swift is an Xconomist; read her new article "Sourcing the Right Crowd"
Celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week with YII and join us for a complimentary webinar, Setting up a new company to commercialize your invention with Jay Shepherd, founder of LaunchPad on November 19th
YII has partnered with MIT's Innovations in International Health to run YII's BrainBuzz brainstorming and networking sessions at universities across North America
World Intellectual Property Office Magazine features YII's members
James Poss, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Seahorse Power Company was selected as the Technology Pioneer of 2007 by the World Economic Forum; Big Belly was YII's case study company at the 2006 MIT conference
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