The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) was created by a landmark $85 million public-private partnership in the Tech Belt (which was conceived in 2007 by Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), education, business, and community leaders in the Youngstown region to re-imagine the future of the community). In President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address he called on Congress to create 15 more institutes across the country using Youngstown’s NAMII as a model.