Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council
NAIPEC advances tribal innovation and economic development, working with tribes, tribal governments, and tribal businesses to identify and structure opportunity, align strategic partners, and build funding pathways that generate sustainable growth across Indian Country.
Innovation across Indian Country is real and growing. The opportunity is significant, but unlocking its full economic potential requires structure, partnership, and aligned capital. NAIPEC works to help build that framework.
Tribal governments, enterprises, and Native entrepreneurs are building businesses across technology, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and cultural industries.
Many promising initiatives lack aligned partners, capital access, or commercialization strategy.
Without structure, growth stalls.
Capital, intellectual property protection, and cross-sector collaboration are not equally available across Indian Country.
Infrastructure matters.
When innovation is paired with disciplined planning, strong partnerships, and clear funding pathways, economic growth accelerates.
NAIPEC works with tribes and partners to help turn innovation into sustainable economic development.
The Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council (NAIPEC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit economic development organization.
We bring together tribal leadership, enterprise operators, funding partners, and innovation-focused companies to build scalable economic initiatives that strengthen tribal economies across Indian Country.
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Inventors and small businesses that meet certain financial thresholds and other criteria may be eligible for free legal assistance in preparing and filing a patent application. The Patent Pro Bono Program is a nationwide network of independently operated regional programs that match volunteer patent professionals with financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses for the purpose of securing patent protection.
A completely free e-learning course that will help you understand the patenting process and prepare you to apply for a patent of your own.
NAIPEC’s Strategy Paper on Intellectual Property Value Creation and Economic Development.
Outlining the strategy for Native Tribes and Tribal businesses to leverage Intellectual Property as an engine for value creation and economic development. This paper outlines our approach and guidelines to Native Tribes and Tribal businesses in assessing, acquiring and extracting value from IP; and how IP as an asset can be leveraged to generate value through innovation; economic development; workforce deployment; and new enterprise creation in Indian Country.
Founded by renowned, successful Native American Inventor T. David Petite, NAIPEC brings together some of the brightest minds in the world, to provide leadership in the fields of educating, capturing, managing, developing, and manufacturing the ideas and intellectual property of Native American inventors.
Supported by its network of partners and international experts, NAIPEC delivers world-class education, advanced interdisciplinary research and modern business development support. NAIPEC serves as an Intellectual Property incubator organization providing direct assistance in the areas of:
