Benchtop to Business is a customizable entrepreneurship and commercialization program designed to help researchers, faculty, scientists, and technology innovators translate promising research into real-world impact. The program bridges the critical gap between scientific innovation and market opportunity, helping participants assess commercial potential, identify customers and stakeholders, validate market needs, and develop a viable pathway from research to venture, partnership, or commercialization.

Through interactive instruction, applied exercises, mentoring, and individualized coaching, participants work directly with their own technologies and research projects. Programming can be tailored to the needs and maturity of each cohort and may address customer discovery, product-market fit, technology de-risking, regulatory and development pathways, business models, go-to-market strategy, team formation, funding and investment readiness, and investor communication.

Rather than simply introducing entrepreneurship concepts, Benchtop to Business is designed to move participants toward actionable commercialization pathways with clearer market positioning, an understanding of key technical and commercial risks, and a practical roadmap for advancing their innovation toward funding, partnership, pilot deployment, or company formation.