Success Stories
Held twice annually, HackPSU provides students with the opportunity to complete unique challenges for different companies in attendance. Students can opt to tackle several of the challenges or focus on one. The competition, a 24-hour social coding hackathon, brought 85 teams of Penn State students together to conceptualize, develop and…
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Ben Franklin’s Innovation Partnership (IPart) helps small businesses with innovation research, tech transfer, and funding. IPart administers services through a consortium of 15 economic development and business assistance organizations and institutions of higher education, located throughout the Commonwealth. Each of the organizations brings a unique perspective and skill-set. Partner Organizations…
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Move to High Value Fertilizers Saves Customers Money and Helps the Environment Licensing a technology created in the College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State startup Phospholutions developed a soil-amendment product called RhizoSorb®. The product aims to reduce phosphorus runoff and enhance plant root depth, decreasing the amount of both water…
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Leaders from the Office of Industrial Partnerships are announcing a new, multi-element industry partnership between Penn State and Factory, a food, beverage, and pet scale-up company in Bethlehem, Pa. Extending from Penn State Lehigh Valley to the University Park Campus, the new collaboration has the potential to bring economic and…
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Penn State Law offers two very important cost-free legal clinics to Penn State and community entrepreneurs—the Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic and Intellectual Property Clinic. Services are provided by Penn State Law students who are recruited and overseen by law professors Tom Sharbaugh and Rachel Herder, who are licensed Pennsylvania attorneys and…
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Invent Penn State has created a family of tools to make IP discovery and entrepreneurship at Penn State more streamlined and accessible than ever. The Resource Navigator, Startup Navigator and IP Navigator help startups, entrepreneurs and industry partners quickly find what they need through a searchable showcase of Penn State…
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The Scranton LaunchBox opened on Tuesday, Oct. 2nd at 611 Cedar Avenue, it’s temporary home until design and construction are completed on its future permanent location inside the adjacent People’s Security Bank building. The Scranton LaunchBox is a no-cost startup accelerator and co-working space designed to provide early-stage startup companies…
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The Nittany AI Challenge offers teams of students, faculty, and staff the chance to compete for grants by developing and presenting AI–based solutions that solve real-world problems and improve the student experience and/or University operations at Penn State. The winners of the 2018 Nittany AI Challenge, presented by the Nittany…
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The United States has record student loan debt with over $1.5 trillion in outstanding loans, a number that is still growing. Penn State startup SponsrU wants to help students by providing an online solution that to reduce student loan debt through personal mentorship, employee benefits, and performance incentives. After SponsrU’s…
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