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We wish to thank our sponsors of these great events for their valuable support!

Special thanks to: Larry Miller Business Resource Center of Salt Lake Community College, Utah Science and Technology Research Initiative (USTAR), Thorpe, North & Western, LLP, Invented in Utah Contest, Rocketship Design, and Larry H. Miller Business Center.

  

 The video recordings of the Utah Inventors Winter Symposium on February 14th 2009  are now available on-line Click here.

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Home Base for Utah Inventors

Utah is renowned for creative inventors who have provided the world with such technical achievements as television, the hearing aid, stereo, digital recording, Gore-Tex® fabric, Adobe® imaging, video games and many more.

Indeed, Utah’s economy is strong today because over 3000 independent Utah inventors and over 1000 corporate and university inventors work to create new ideas and better products.  Previous innovations have spawned such companies as Huntsman Chemical, Browning Firearms, Word Perfect, Novel, Iomega, Icon Fitness, Pixar Animation, Myriad Genetics, Sarcos, Evans & Sutherland, Moxtek, Control4 and others.

More information on the Foundation

Help for Inventors

The Spirit of Renaissance® Foundation seeks to energize the creative spirit in Utah by providing a single organization for inventors from all sectors of the community—corporate, university, independent and student.  Inventors will now have a voice in the economic expansion of the state, as well as improved access to the many available resources to support creative contributions in science and technology. Thanks to the support of our sponsors and supporters the membership fee to join Utahinventor.org currently is only $20 join today. 

Activities include:

• Training and networking—the Foundation website is growing to provide articles, videos, newsletters, links to support groups, and recognition for achievement.
• Periodic seminars— guest speakers in marketing and invention development, and social interaction with other inventors.
• Spirit of da Vinci® Awards—a future opportunity for Utah Inventors will be to compete for thousands of dollars in awards, as well for as public attention.  Separate competitions will be held for (i) corporate/university inventors, (ii)  independent inventors, and (iii) student inventors of high school age.  Inventions will be judged on the basis of creativity and NOT on the business or commercial success of the invention.  Watch for future announcements on the introduction of these awards.   Award Information

Successful Inventors and Sponsors
Will you help?

Successful Inventors
Successful inventors may apply for membership in the Utah Inventor Hall of Fame, with your success story featured in publications and seminars.   Seminar Opportunities

Tax Deductible Donations
100% of all general donations go directly to inventor programs. Sponsors who are also inventors get special recognition with donations.   Sponsor Information

Technical Judges
Technical judges for the Spirit of da Vinci awards—Persons with technical expertise are needed to assist in judging inventions at the annual inventor competitions.

Donate Time on Your Equipment
Permitting independent inventors to use your specialized equipment can open new options for Utah inventors.   Contact us if you are willing to assist.

Utah Inventors Forum

The Utah Inventors Forum is designed as powerful resource for all who work with innovation in Utah. The forum is an extremely important part of UtahInventor.org and The Spirit of Renaissance® Foundation. The Forum allows an open exchange of non-confidential information from all inventors across the State. 

In the forum you can ask questions and tap into the vast wealth knowledge and experience of inventors, professors, lawyers, manufactures and other experts from all over Utah. In the forum you can share your ideas and knowledge to help other inventors, work with manufactures to solve problems, create jobs and make lasting friendships and great business contacts and even advertise your inventions. The forum also serves as an easy meeting place for our committees to continue their important work.   Please participate in the forum frequently, the more we use it the more valuable it will become. registration for the forum is FREE, easy and open to everyone.

A Special Thanks to our Board of Advisors and Sponsors

Board of Advisors for Spirit of Renaissance Foundation

Vaughn W. North, COB and Ptnr of Thorpe, North & Western
Michael Alder, Director, BYU Technology Transfer   
Brian Cummings, Director, U of U Tech Commercialization
Dr. Glenn Whichard, Co-Director, USU Tech Commercialization
Ted McAleer, Executive Director of USTAR
Dr. Michael Keene, Previous State Science Officer
Terry Chatwin, Director of the Utah Engineering Experimental Station
Richard Nelson, President of Utah Technology Council
Dr. Joe Andrade, Director of The Leonardo
Dr. Steve Jacobsen, President of Sarcos, Professor U of U
Rod Linton, Battelle and Former Utah Dir of Econ Develop
Dr. Brent Strong, Director of RR and Professor BYU
Karen Gunn, Larry Miller Business Resource Center SLCC
Brad Bertoch, Wayne Brown Institute
Mark Bettilyon, Ray Quinney & Nebeker
Samuel Straight, IP Section of the Utah State Bar
Dave Morrison, Patent Depository, Marriott Library U of U

                                            

 

Utahinventor.org is a division of the Spirit of Renaissance® Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation.