Success Stories
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State student startups from all campuses, including World Campus, are encouraged to apply for the 2025 Invent Penn State Summer Founders Program. Selected teams will receive a $15,000 grant to dedicate their summer to advancing their startup, social impact project, or nonprofit initiative. Applications are…
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Invent Penn State LaunchBox & Innovation Network is advancing the University’s land-grant mission by delivering entrepreneurial resources, programming, consulting, coworking spaces, and funding opportunities to communities across the commonwealth. With 23 locations statewide, the network ensures 96% of Pennsylvanians have access to innovation and entrepreneurship…
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Hazel Diaz, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and a Penn State alumna, has been named the director of the new Veterans Business Outreach Center (VBOC) at Penn State. The recently opened center provides entrepreneurial development services to veterans, active-duty service members, National Guard members, Reservists, and military…
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Invent Penn State’s NSF I-Corps Short Course is accepting applications for its virtual February cohort. The no-cost program helps researchers test a startup idea through customer interviews and educational programming on the lean startup methodology. The cohort will begin on Friday, February 7 and runs through Friday,…
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Many smallholder farmers in Africa farm out of necessity to feed their families, often lacking access to information or knowledge about best practices. The challenges of climate change—such as crop stress, shorter growing seasons, declining soil fertility, and reduced yields—have made farming even more difficult, leaving little…
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers, present a significant challenge for healthcare providers. For patients with diabetes, impaired blood flow to extremities and weakened immune responses make it difficult to fight off infections. Once infected, these wounds can progress rapidly, sometimes leading to amputations. Existing treatments,…
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From November 18 to 22, Penn State campuses and surrounding communities were full of entrepreneurial energy as Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Penn State 2024 began, offering a diverse array of events designed to inspire and connect innovators across the community. Hosted by the Penn State Small Business Development Center (SBDC),…
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UNIVERSITY PARK - When Sam Marshall entered Penn State’s Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program, he was presented with a problem to solve: smallholder farmers in Kenya lack access to essential farming equipment. Through the HESE program, which presents teams of students with a technology-based problem faced by communities…
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Penn State undergraduate student startup teams from across Pennsylvania are invited to attend a virtual info session on December 9 at 7 pm to learn more about participating in the Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition. The Inc.U Competition awards cash prizes to winning student startups: $15,000 for first place, $10,000…
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