Stony Brook University Economic Development enterprise collaborates with the region's industry leadership and provides support to companies, entrepreneurs and start-ups, leveraging the expertise of more than 900 researchers and investigators at one of SUNY's four Campus Centers and nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory. Stony Brook University provides support and space for incubation and guidance for business success throughout the region. This focus is closely aligned with the University's strategic goals of expanding research, fostering entrepreneurship, expanding technology commercialization and industry partnerships, and powering the prosperity of Long Island and New York State. In the last decade, Stony Brook University performed more than 4,000 projects that helped almost a thousand Long Island companies create nearly 20,000 jobs and generate more than a billion dollars in business activity.The alignment of Economic Development with Stony Brook University's Research enterprise leverages the world-class expertise of university researchers, unique state-of-the-art facilities and an unmatched history of collaboration to create an environment of possibilities and excitement about the future of Long Island's economy, and the opportunity for industry to get the best cutting-edge ideas by tapping into the brains of the brightest minds.