Success Stories
Penn State startup ConidioTec hopes to capture the pesticide market with their patented bed bug control product, Aprehend®. Bed bugs are a serious problem and make up a sizable portion of the $7.6 billion North American pest control industry. Before Aprehend® there was no way for hotels or homeowners to…
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Penn State was named the No. 2 school for Graduating CEOs according to LinkedIn. The study examined the profiles of 12,000 chief executives from 20 different countries and tracked where they received their undergraduate and/or graduate degrees. The only school rated higher than Penn State for producing CEOs was Stanford…
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Five technology startups presented their business ideas before a panel of judges and their peers with the hopes of winning up to $10,000 in prizes from Ben Franklin Technology Partners on May 29 at Innovation Park. “We are often amazed by the innovations and inventions that we see in our TechCelerator…
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On May 24 Moichor (formerly known as HemoGo) beat out five other teams of Penn State students who pitched their startup ideas to a panel of judges for the Inc.U competition and T.V. show “The Investment.” The competitors were all vying for a piece of the $30,000 prize pool, but…
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Every year over 260,000 newborn infants in the U.S. are treated for respiratory distress, but current methods risk long term complications. Penn State Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Charles Palmer and Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering Dr. William Weiss believe their technology, ThoraciCair, could be the solution. Current methods for non-invasive…
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Penn State has a rich history of entrepreneurship, and few people have been as integrally involved with those efforts as Dan Leri, Director of Innovation Park at Penn State and head of Penn State’s incubator. Innovation Park is a 118-acre office, manufacturing and research space on the east side of…
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State College has a long history of being rated as one of the best communities in America. In 1988 Psychology Today magazine called State College the least stressed place in the country. In 2011 National Geographic named State College an “Adventure Town” owing to the variety of activities locals have…
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Following an extraordinary debut in 2016, this year’s Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference, held April 19-20 at the Penn State Hotel and Conference Center, attracted more than 600 participants, including 80 startup companies and more than 40 venture capitalists and industry advisers—all working together to drive innovation, foster collaboration…
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James Adair, professor of materials science and engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacology, was awarded the Invent Penn State "Inventor of the Year" award, Friday, April 20, at the Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference awards ceremony. In May 2017, Adair also received the Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Entrepreneurship and…
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