In Phoenixville, an arts and entertainment redevelopment strategy has put its downtown on centerstage. It's one of several examples throughout Pennsylvania that illustrate how the arts can elicit economic development as well as standing ovations.
North Central Pennsylvania offers entrepreneurs a $10,000 prize for the best innovation.
Parking lots and garages at Pan at Pittsburgh International Airport will be refitted with 1,500 energy-saving LED fixtures from Appalachian Lighting Systems in Ellwood City.
A team of Penncrest High School students has won first place in the national Canon Envirothon.
The University City Science Center, the first and largest urban research park in the country, has grown alongside the companies it has nurtured since 1963. Good thing, too, as those companies are needing more and more space.
When the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association (MAREA) held its first Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival in 2005, three solar installers set up exhibits.
When Harrisburg University of Science and Technology wanted to expand its biotechnology program to include nanotechnology, there was no need to come up with millions to spend on labs and equipment.
Electric submeter market leader E-Mon, based in Langhorne, has 400,000 performance-optimizing meters deployed in commercial and institutional facilities in every U.S. state and 30 different countries.
Erie-area entrepreneurs hustling for resources to jump-start their business ideas will meet the experts at a seminar sponsored by the Erie Technology Incubator August 29.