National Inventors Month
Take some time to appreciate the brilliant men and women who have invented ways to make our lives better and easier, from glasses to plumbing to spaceships.
Celebrate innovation and creative problem-solving to position your brand as forward-thinking and inspire customer engagement with inventor-spotlighting campaigns.
- Feature customer success stories as 'everyday inventors' solving real problems
- Host innovation challenges or hackathons tied to your product category
- Spotlight lesser-known inventors whose work shaped your industry
- Create educational content on the invention process to build thought leadership
National Inventors Month began was started in 1998 by the United Inventors Association of the USA (UIA-USA), the Academy of Applied Science, and Inventors’ Digest magazine. As Joanne Hayes-Rines, editor of Inventors’ Digest and a sponsor of National Inventors Month, put it: “We want to recognize those talented, brave individuals who dare to be blatantly creative, and therefore different, and whose accomplishments affect every facet of our lives.”
When we think of inventors, we usually think of people like Alexander Graham Bell or Henry Ford, and there’s nothing wrong with that—those people had an enormous impact on what life looks lie today, having invented the telephone and the automobile, respectively.
However, in an age of gadgets, gizmos and electronics, it’s easy to forget that there is still incredible progress being made in technological innovation. Need proof? Shunpei Yamazaki, without whom our LCD screens would not be able to work. Mark Zuckerberg, who created the most effective way to share pictures our cats ever. Stephen Hawking, whose insightful thories in cosmology have shaped the way humanity sees the universe.
Inventor’s Month is dedicated to recognizing the creativity of inventors everywhere, dead and alive, and of course encouraging everybody to get inventive.