The Citizen Science, Idea, and Invention Division conducts research to determine what research projects or subjects the citizens of the United States and elsewhere would like to see conducted or investigated, and provides a website and database where citizen research suggestions may be described. In addition, another research center of this division does research to determine the novel scientific and technological ideas and hypotheses citizens have, and provides a “time stamped” database website where people can describe their scientific or innovative ideas and hypotheses. By this means, citizens would be able to establish the “primacy” of their ideas and receive primacy credit and/or compensation for them. This would help put an end to the common practice of “idea stealing”, similar to patent infringement, where the idea originator gets little or no credit, and the idea exploiter gets most or all of the credit.
A third research center provides a place where corporations and government agencies could list “Inventions Wanted”, by corporations and the US government, seeking citizen help in developing such inventions. A fourth research center assists citizen inventors in patenting and commercially developing their inventions. A fifth research center administers prizes and awards being offered by corporations, government agencies, and individuals for specific inventions, as well as, annual prizes to citizens with the best ideas and inventions each year, like a “Citizens Nobel Prize.” These services and research would be of interest to the entire general public, researchers and scholars, to corporations, and to government agencies.
Division Director: Dr. Charles Wilson
Faculty, advisors, research associates, and others doing research or with a major interest in the Research Center subject areas below: Dr. Wayne Jonas, Dr. Peter Sturrock, Dr. Ron Westrum, Dr. Oliver Alexy, Dr. Dennis Crouch, Dr. Andrew Adams, Dr. Eskil Ullberg, Dr. Claudio Fassio, Dr. Levan Alapishvili, Dr. Farha Abdol Ghapar, Dr. Oscar Lizarazo, and others.
Research Centers:
[list style=”clean-4″]Citizen Research Project Suggestion Center
Citizen Idea Primacy Database Center (A “Patent Office” for establishing idea primacy;)
Inventions Wanted Center
Citizen Invention Assistance Center
Citizen Scientific Prizes and Awards Center
Patent Research Center (Including research on patent applications and patent secrecy in the United States and worldwide;)[/list]