Inspiring Tomorrow’s High-Tech Entrepreneurs

Venture capital investment is making a comeback. As high-tech investment returns, opportunities for our younger generation need to be expanded. We need to find new ways to better educate and inspire potential entrepreneurs. How can an educational approach prepare students in the United States to become high-tech entrepreneurs? What are universities doing now to ensure interest in venture capital investment?

On the next edition of Technogenesis®, John T. Preston, Senior Lecturer for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Sarah Jane Militello, Chief Operating Officer of Stevens Technologies, Inc., join Stevens President Dr. Harold Raveche in an informative look at the state of venture capital investment and the role universities play in developing high-tech entrepreneurs.

Technogenesis is a weekly TV program produced by Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens), in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network. This week’s program features an investigation of the importance of technology in our global economy, the role of university research and the field of Technology Management. The program also explores how universities can inspire more students to become involved in starting their own high-tech business enterprises.

The Technogenesis program, “Inspiring Tomorrow’s High-Tech Entrepreneurs” airs at 7:00 p.m., on cn8, the Comcast Network, each of the following Sundays throughout New Jersey, Westchester County, New York, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston: September 14 and September 28. The program will also appear at various times throughout the week on the local Comcast outlets in Prince William and Fairfax counties, Va., as well as Prince George’s County, Md. Please check for local listings.

Hosted by Stevens President Dr. Harold J. Raveche and veteran TV journalist Steve Taylor, each program includes special guests from the areas of science, technology, government, education, business or industry.

John Preston serves as senior lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also president and CEO of Atomic Ordered Materials, LLC, chairman of Quantum Catalytics and director of Clean Harbors Corporation.

Mr. Preston was the Director of Technology at MIT where he participated in founding dozens of technological-based companies and negotiated hundreds of licenses to existing companies. The market capitalization of the companies founded by his office is currently greater than $20 billion.

Sarah Jane Militello is an experienced computer and health care executive with international sales and marketing accomplishments. She has held numerous leadership positions with profit and loss responsibility in a major Fortune 50 corporation as well as in public and private start-ups. Sara Jane joined Stevens Technologies in 2001 as Chief Operating Officer. She is a Director of Plasmion Corporation and is a former member of the Technology Ventures Incubator Advisory Board at Stevens.

Co-produced by Stevens and Comcast, the half-hour Technogenesis programs feature government, research and industry leaders discussing some of the most challenging real-world issues facing science and technology today.

The Comcast Network is one of the nation’s largest regional cable networks reaching more than 7 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Boston.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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