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.
StarCite's recent "Stimulus Plan" promotion is a clear marketing nod to the government's efforts to resuscitate the economy.
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.
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.
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.
BioAdvance, the Biotechnology Green House Corporation of Southeastern Pennsylvania, clearly likes what it sees in Novira Therapeutics, an emerging life sciences company in Philadelphia.
We talked with Professor Giarratani about how Pittsburgh has been able to adapt to changing economic conditions and how the era of big steel helped prepare the region for a new kind of economy based on services rather than commodities.
Leishmaniasis, African sleeping sickness and Chagas' disease might sound foreign to most, but they're going to get plenty of attention at the University of Pennsylvania thanks to a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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.
Fund raising by venture capital firms nationwide during the first quarter of 2009 was up an anemic $4.3 billion. How have Pennsylvania's venture capitalists fared during the same period?