Highlights from The Seventh Annual Conference of The National Academy of Inventors

This article presents highlights from the Seventh Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), which was held April 4 to 6, 2018, in Washington, DC. The NAI meeting is held each year to honor academic invention and inventors, to inspire invention and invention networks, and to raise the profile of university and non-profit research. The 2018 meeting, Exploring the Intersections of Innovation, highlighted the intersection of invention and the future, the intersection of ideas and entrepreneurship, and the intersection of academia and government.