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   Saturday, March 20, 2010

Olympus Innovation Award

Olympus Innovation Award Press Release 2010

Olympus Innovation Award Backgrounder 2010 (.doc)

Olympus Innovation Award 2009 Winners

2009 Olympus Innovation Award Winners




The 2009 winners in the Olympus Innovation Award Program (l-r): Andrew Hargadon, associate professor, Graduate School of Management, University of California–Davis; Michael Camp, Ph.D., academic director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business; Jill Bamburg, dean emeritus and Gifford Pinchot III, president emeritus, Bainbridge Graduate Institute. The national program, executed by Olympus in partnership with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), recognizes individuals who have fostered or demonstrated innovative thinking in education.



Michael Camp, designer of the Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (TEC) Academy and the TEC Institute, won the 2009 Olympus Innovation Award for his work at The Ohio State University, where he trains business and science students in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.

Andrew Hargadon, associate professor, Graduate School of Management, University of California–Davis, captured the Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award.

Jill Bamburg and Gifford Pinchot III, co-founders of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, were jointly granted the Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award.




2008 Olympus Innovation Award Winners




Tina Seelig, co-founder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University, co-winner of the 2008 Olympus Innovation Award.

David F. Barbe, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maryland and executive director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH), winner of the 2008 Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award.

Martina Musteen, assistant professor at the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University, received the 2008 Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award.




2007 Olympus Innovation Award Winners




Burt Swersey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), winner of the 2007 Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award, and George Steares, vice president emeritus, Olympus America (left). Swersey is a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at RPI. The Olympus Innovation Award Program, conducted annually by Olympus and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), recognizes individuals who have fostered and demonstrated innovative thinking in higher education.



Burt Swersey (right), lecturer, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is the winner of the 2007 Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award. John Blackburn (left), RPI alumnus ’05, is president of BullEx Digital Safety, a company that has developed a novel clean-burning, safe and effective fire extinguisher training system. The invention was sparked in one of Swersey’s engineering courses, designed to promote innovation and give students hands-on experience in developing commercially viable products. Photo Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/ Kris Qua


Dr. Deborah Streeter, Cornell University (right), winner of the 2007 Olympus Innovation Award, and George Steares, vice president emeritus, Olympus America (left). Dr. Streeter is the Bruce F. Failing, professor of personal enterprise, in Cornell’s Department of Applied Economics and Management. The Olympus Innovation Award Program, conducted annually by Olympus and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), recognizes individuals who have fostered and demonstrated innovative thinking in higher education.


Bill Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara (right), winner of the 2007 Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award, and George Steares, vice president emeritus, Olympus America (left). Grant is program manager of the Technology Management Program at UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Engineering Management. The Olympus Innovation Award Program, conducted annually by Olympus and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), recognizes individuals who have fostered and demonstrated innovative thinking in higher education.