To provide the following benefits to key constituents:

Benefits for Competitors:

• Discovering the entrepreneurial value of their talents and ideas

• Providing opportunities for interdisciplinary feedback from many sources

• Creating interdisciplinary relationships with other participants

• Showcasing and promoting their talents and ideas

• Learning to sell their ideas and become entrepreneurs

• Networking with industry professionals who are interested in entrepreneurial ideas

• Possibility of winning accolades and prizes

• Potentially meeting course requirements

• Engaging in an activity that can enhance their resumes

Benefits for Faculty:

• Broadening curriculum to include practical applications of concepts

• Providing venue to showcase student projects

• Increasing marketability of degree programs

• Motivating students to follow-through with ideas

• Demonstrating the impact of subject-specific knowledge within a societal context

• Increasing opportunities for interdisciplinary relationships

• Improving prestige of SJSU in the community

• Attracting companies to hire our students

Benefits for Community Partners:

• Increasing exposure and building relationship with SJSU and its 30,000 students

• Enhancing public image and promoting name recognition

• Creating a better entrepreneurial infrastructure for the Silicon Valley

• Finding talented students and good ideas to help fill their “talent pipeline”

• Tapping into the entrepreneurship expertise at SJSU

• Identifying potential interns, employees and business partners

• Benefiting from enriched education process at SJSU

• Participating in the growth of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community