TechShop is the 1st International Open-Access Workshop — TechShop Press Releases.

TechShop, Inc., the world’s first and largest network of open access makerspaces, today announced that it is committing to help launch 10,000 new startup businesses by 2022. The initiative will leverage TechShop’s 7,500 members and multiple locations in the United States in addition to an ecosystem of supporting companies and institutions interested in helping entrepreneurs launch their companies.

TechShop launched this effort to help small, maker-driven hardware and embedded electronics startups negotiate the challenging transition from the early prototype stage through design and manufacturing as few as 100 units.

The first partner to formally pledge support for this initiative is Flex, the leading sketch-to-scale solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world. With approximately 200,000 professionals in 30 countries and a promise to help the world Live Smarter™, Flex provides design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain insight and logistics for companies of all sizes in various industries.

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Interesting! This is also the first time we’ve heard Flex (formerly Flextronics) tag line “sketch-to-scale services and solutions — from concept to commercialization”.