Pre-Seed Workshop 2016: Transforming ideas into viable ventures
Summary
The two-and-a-half-day Pre-Seed Workshop was started in 2004 in Rochester New York and is now being held about ten times a year in various Host City locations throughout the Northeast US and Europe. The first Pre-Seed workshop in Switzerland took place in 2012 in the Arc Lémanique area and by 2015 three events, one each once every year, have been conducted with the aim of transforming the most outstanding high-tech ideas into early stage start-up companies. Eight non- for- profit start-ups including Nanolive, Noonee, Quibig, Cellestia Biotech, Sensars, Morphotonix, SUNbioscience and Lucentix have been established following participation in the workshop. “The workshops will expand to other parts of Switzerland in which once a year they are conducted in a different city for instance in 2017 the event is planned to take place Geneva and in 2018 in Bern.” says Phaedra Simitsek, PSW organiser, NCCR. They also have the opportunity to build their networks through interacting with young entrepreneurs, peers – with whom they may found a company and important people to long-term entrepreneurial success.
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