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PedalPA offers northern crossing tour
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/25/2010
PedalPA brings back cross-state cycling vacations.
Entrepreneurship  
Williamsport , Erie , Scranton  
Penn Libraries get $4.25M boost for special collections expansion
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/25/2010
Thanks to a recent gift that ranks as the largest to the library from a living donor, the University of Pennsylvania's library system will become even larger.
Higher Education , Intellectual Property  
Philadelphia  
Semiconductors, nanoparticles among ideas that earn Ben Franklin Technology dollars in NEPA
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/25/2010
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania announced nearly $600,000 in funding earlier this month for startup and established companies throughout the region.
Advanced Manufacturing and Materials , Business Services , Design , Entrepreneurship , High Technology , Higher Education , Intellectual Property , Life Sciences , Social Media , Sustainability  
Bethlehem , Williamsport , Allentown , Scranton  
National Gateway rail projects create SW PA jobs
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/25/2010
National Gateway rail projects get TIGER funds to create southwestern PA jobs.
Advanced Manufacturing and Materials , Design  
Pittsburgh  
Nothing retiring about pharma veteran and his rapidly growing new Philly company, Tarsa Therapeutics
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/25/2010
Veteran pharmaceutical executive David Brand retired from a 30-year career with GlaxoSmithKline a few years ago, but his grandchildren might tell a different story, he admits.
Life Sciences  
Philadelphia  
Penn team solves problems by scratching the surface with new materials technology
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/25/2010
Arjun Srinivas and a team of University of Pennsylvania Materials Science and Engineering researchers didn’t just want to develop a commercially feasible technology for their senior thesis project two years ago. They were just as adamant about finding a solution to a real-world problem.
Advanced Manufacturing and Materials , High Technology , Higher Education , Intellectual Property , Sustainability  
Philadelphia  
Southeast PA duo brings tradeshow feel to Bucks County Health and Fitness Fair and area businesses
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/25/2010
As founder and president of Red Cedar Marketing, Traci Browne has long worked with healthcare companies on tradeshows. When she and a colleague saw a sports complex in Bucks County make an attempt to draw non-sports conferences and events to its facility, they saw another kind of opportunity.
Business Services , Design , Entrepreneurship , Life Sciences  
Philadelphia  
400,000 rural PA businesses to get better broadband thanks to federal grants
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/24/2010
400,000 rural PA businesses will get better broadband access through $130 million in federal grants.
High Technology  
State College  
Optical Filters expands in Meadville
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/24/2010
Optical Filters expands specialty EMI-shield glass operations in Meadville; will double staff and space.
Advanced Manufacturing and Materials  
Pittsburgh  
Small Farm Central brings farm products online
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/18/2010
Based in Pittsburgh, Small Farms Central brings farm products online.
Entrepreneurship , Sustainability  
Pittsburgh  
Crowdsourced snow removal: howsmystreet.com
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/18/2010
A team at CMU develops crowdsourced snow removal at howsmystreet.com.
Higher Education , Social Media  
In Clearfield County, River Hill coal says green mining is not an oxymoron
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/18/2010
In Clearfield County, River Hill Coal Company is trying renewable energy partnerships for green mining.
Sustainability  
State College  
Hobo chic Tshirts by 'Burgh designer help end homelessness
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/18/2010
Proceeds from T-shirts by Pittsburgh designer Shea Mullen help end homelessness and aid other charities.
Design , Entrepreneurship  
Pittsburgh  
Centre County's Schoolwires named tech company of the year
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/18/2010
Centre County's Schoolwires named tech company of the year by the Ben Franklin PArtners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania.
High Technology  
State College  
Philly company injects logic into social media listening
Source: Keystone Edge, 2/18/2010
When national casual dining chain Red Robin saw a petition circulating online from customers who demanded veggie burgers be offered at its restaurants, the company was floored. Red Robin, in fact, served veggie burgers, and immediately realized that it was imperative to know what people were saying online--and in a hurry.
Business Services , Entrepreneurship , Social Media , Venture Capital  
Philadelphia  
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