Many major U.S. corporations started from an invention. We need to change this perception or face an 'invention deficit' in the future. We hope the Lemelson-MIT Prize Program will help. Mr. Bolander's innovations with Saturn, Cadillac and General Motors have improved the safety and efficiency of the American automobile. The PC and aspirin tied for fourth place at 6 percent.
Inventors drive our economy and help maintain America's status as a world leader.
Based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Lemelson-MIT Program was established in 1994 by the late independent inventor Jerome H. Lemelson and his wife, Dorothy. The Program encourages young Americans to pursue careers in the fields of science, engineering, technology and entrepreneurship. The Lemelson-MIT Program is funded by the Lemelson Foundation, which supports other invention initiatives at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Hampshire College, the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and the University of Nevada, Reno. For more survey results click here.