"The Pre-Seed Workshop is the best approach I have seen to the challenging issue of determing if acedemic researchers have an idea that can become a commercially successful venture."

Sean Boykevisch
Senior Licensing Associate
Stony Brook University, Long Island

Who Benefits from the PSW

Potential Entrepreneurs
• Provides solution to “I may have a commercializable invention. Now what?”

Universities
• Leverages Billion of R&D Dollars annually
• Provides hands-on education and transitions technologies out
• Rallies the community to provide business support to researchers

VCs / Angels
• Is a major deal flow stimulant and generator

Communities / Metro Regions
• Is a community-based launch pad for start-ups for economic development
• Gathers community professionals, old and young, around real opportunities
• Not more talk and panel discussions, this is action

States and Countries
• Creates synergies between metro regions
• Builds up entrepreneurship as a new economy base