NITA was formed in 1989 to promote inventive thinking and a spirit of positive problem solving through education and the networking of community and national resources. The organization serves as a network of inventive thinkers through dissemination of information and ideas through its newsletter, networking of schools, new curriculum offerings, workshops, and the annual National Creative and Inventive Thinking Skills Conferences and the Christopher Columbus Discovery Institute Program. Our Beliefs . . . Inventive thinking is a continuing process of shifting paradigms. The nation's economic and social well-being are dependent upon the ability to successfully apply inventive thinking in a free enterprise system.
Education is an effective catalyst for implementing inventive thinking in a free enterprise system.
Networking can enhance the development and proliferation of inventive thinking. Collegiality is important to the development and promotion of inventive thinking. Positive attitudes toward inventive thinking are enhanced through recognition. Risk-taking and perseverance are critical to successful inventive thinking. All individuals have the potential to be inventive thinkers.