New opportunities for polymers in medicine motivated Polymics, one of the world�s leading manufacturers of highly specialized polymers, to spin off its biomedical division into the majority-owned Nittany Polymedics.
When Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau (PMVB) Executive Director Carl Wilgus was at a meeting of his contemporaries last year, he was one of only two to raise their hand when asked who was looking at green strategies.
BioAdvance, the Biotechnology Green House Corporation of Southeastern Pennsylvania, clearly likes what it sees in Novira Therapeutics, an emerging life sciences company in Philadelphia.
Central Pennsylvania is known more for agriculture than its tech culture, but Millersville University computer science professor Stephanie Elzer is quick to point out that it has been a hotbed for some major entrepreneurs.
For investigators of the early roots of innovation in western Pennsylvania, a visit to Old Economy Village this spring may offer insights into the distinctive designs of the Harmony Society.
ClearCount Medical Solutions expects to place about 300 of its RFID-based SmartSponge Systems in hospital surgical suites by the end of this year and perhaps double that number during 2010.
With the era's accent on the reduction of operating costs, Catalyst Connection, the industrial resource center for southwestern PA, hopes to recruit more small to midsize manufacturers to pool their demand for power.
CEO Tim Bradley has seen the epiphany so often the last couple of years, he now refers to it as the "AirClic moment."
Once industrial wastelands, Pittsburgh's Three Rivers are now engines driving the twin goals of recreation and economic growth--and a shining example of how to reconnect a city to its waterfront.
Rain gardens, porous pavement, underground cisterns and a plan for an urban forest are all part of a growing movement in Pittsburgh to revamp the city's waterways and create a sustainable infrastructure for stormwater.