Congratulations to Our 2024 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!

NETrolyze, a novel immunotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), was named the $25,000 grand prize winner at a live finalist round held November 15 in New York. The first-in-class therapeutic injectable gel prevents the spread of TNBC, one of the most aggressive cancer types, enabling patients to avoid toxic chemotherapy and expensive treatments – potentially transforming their lives. Click here for the full list of 2024 winners. Also see the Top 100 highest scoring entries.

Special thanks to our esteemed panel of judges.

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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 15,000 design ideas have been submitted by engineers, students, and entrepreneurs in more than 100 countries. Join the innovators who dared to dream big by entering your ideas today.

Read About Past Winners’ Success Stories

Special Report spotlights the eight top entries in 2023 as well as past winners whose ideas are now in the market, making a difference in the world.

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A ‘Create the Future’ Winner Featured on ‘Here’s an Idea’

Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.

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Thank you from our Sponsors

“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”

— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.

“From our beginnings, Mouser has supported engineers, innovators and students. We are proud of our longstanding support for the Create the Future Design Contest and the many innovations it has inspired.”

— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics

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Valkerie reusable spacecraft

Modular Spacecraft Concept:Valkerie
Abstract:
Valkerie is an attempt to create a multi-platform, multi-mission reusable spacecraft that uses gravimetric conditions in space to provide long-range capabilities.

Paul Radford-hancock
Devizes, United Kingdom

Votes: 3
Views: 4123

Transportation
Mar 4, 2010

MEEMM SSSR

Micro-Efficient Electro-Mechanical Multiplied-System Self-Sustaining Reactions: A summary.

The engagement with natural fields of force and their latent potentialities has been the focus of a subset of Breakthrough Propulsion Projects run by national space agencies for some years.

Paul Radford-hancock
Devizes, United Kingdom

Votes: 5
Views: 5143

Sustainable Technologies
Mar 4, 2010

Micro Electrode Visual Inspection System

A system was devised to aid in the inspection of Micro Electrode assemblies utilized in clinical lab instruments to conduct impedance measurements on living cells in a 384 bottomless well casing with the said electrode layer bonded to the housing creating the closed cell real time data acquisition instrument

Uwe Trautenbach
York, United States

Votes: 0
Views: 4161

Medical
Mar 3, 2010

Stored Energy Electromagnetic Transmission

Aim: to replace a hydraulic torque converter with an electromagnetic device embodying an electrical energy storage system.

Primary Market: Existing trucks and buses with automatic gearboxes but conventional torque convertors.

Tony Maine
Blackwood, Australia

Votes: 0
Views: 4891

Transportation
Mar 2, 2010

MEMS Piezoelectric Vibrational Energy Harvester

MicroGen Systems, LLC is located at the Cornell Business & Technology Park in Ithaca, NY. MicroGen is developing a patent-pending MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) based Piezoelectric Vibrational Energy Harvester (mPZEH). The microfabrication development efforts are being completed at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (READ MORE

Robert Andosca
Ithaca, United States

Votes: 0
Views: 6176

Sustainable Technologies
Mar 2, 2010

Bladeless Wind Turbine

The Fuller wind turbine is awaiting USPTO patent issuance. It is an improvement of an early 20th Century Tesla turbine, substantially modified for use as a low speed, high torque wind turbine. By being vertically mounted atop a tubular tower,

Howard Fuller
Greenville, United States

Votes: 0
Views: 4870

Sustainable Technologies
Mar 2, 2010

Universal Flight Computer for High Power Rocketry

The third generation modular Universal Flight Controller (UFC-3) was designed for the high end amateur high power rocketeer, primarily flights above 60,000' and for FAA Class III Rocketry.

Tom Miller
Jonestown, United States

Votes: 1
Views: 8169

Machinery & Equipment
Mar 1, 2010

Continuous building/structure frame reinforcing

Combined Moment, Damping, & Post-Tensioning Structural Steel Strap-Nets Reinforcing Methods provide total structural body-frame force-resistance and stress-reductions with a single, easily assembled & installable reinforcing component.

Developed primarily for buildings,

Randy Dube
Phoenix, United States

Votes: 3
Views: 10665

Safety and Security
Mar 1, 2010

High Efficiency Water Powered Sump Pump

This invention addresses the $ 1 Billion USD annual storm water back up damage to finished basements and below grade construction that occurs during power outages when the AC pump cannot operate and DC battery back up pumps are unable to operate for long durations (usually 1-3 hours