Welcome to Inventors at SIU
Need some information about inventions? Want to find out what's going on with inventions in the SIU community or meet up with other inventors? We can help you.
The mission of the Inventors website at SIUC is to nurture the local environment for invention by helping student and community inventors advance their ideas through provision of timely and useful information and an online meeting place.
The goal of the Inventors website is to increase the number of student and community inventions reaching the marketplace, as well as facilitating movement of resulting business entities into the local community.
The Inventors Website is brought to you by SIUC Technology Transfer Program and the Southern Illinois Research Park. We are in the process of putting this website together, so please stay tuned as we will be continually adding new information and resources. We've already got some action here:
- Knock-out Search: If you have developed an invention and are wanting to know if you should spend time and/or money moving forward on it or what your next step might be, you may want to do an initial “knock-out” search. This includes a study of the uniqueness and marketability of your invention.
You can find some information about patents on the Tech Transfer website:
We are happy to help! Please email techtran@siu.edu with any questions, suggestions or problems with this website or fill out our contact form.