The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
The NAI Fellow program has 1,898 Fellows worldwide representing more than 300 prestigious universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes. Collectively, the Fellows hold more than 63,000 issued U.S. patents, which have generated over 13,000 licensed technologies, 3,200 companies and created more than 1 million jobs. In addition, over $3 trillion in revenue has been generated based on NAI Fellow discoveries.
Among all NAI Fellows, there are more than 170 presidents and senior leaders of research universities, governmental and non-profit research institutes; about 710 members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine; about 62 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame; 69 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National Medal of Science; and 53 Nobel Laureates, among other awards and distinctions.
