The Greater Reading Keystone Innovation Zone is running a business idea contest for students from five colleges in Berks County. The only stipulations are that the businesses have to be for profit and must somehow focus on technology.
A new nonprofit merchant bank has opened for business in Pittsburgh, hoping to attract manufacturing companies from around the world and create thousands of jobs in the renewable energy and green technology sector.
Researchers at Lock Haven and Penn State universities are developing tiny implants that could restore sight, hearing and motion to those whose nerves were damaged by an injury or illness.
Volvo Construction Equipment recently expanded its Shippensburg manufacturing plant, and the company is calling back employees to work there.
A portable energy storage system being developed by an Allentown company would provide a backup to traditional power grids. The portable storage systems would most likely be used by utility companies to lessen the impact of peak demand for power.
Through a massive stock sale in its wholly-owned subsidiary Alumifuel International, University City's Alumifuel Power looks to expand its hydrogen energy product business to serve customers across the world.
A chance meeting meeting while waiting tables in Washington, D.C., has led Ian Smith on an improbable path back to his native Erie County, where he is selling solar across the western part of PA, including his child home.
Pennsylvania companies that want to do business overseas have a partner in state government. The state's Envoy program recently got an award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
The energy sector has thrust PA back into the national spotlight, and while mid-term elections have many caught up in partisan politics, it is hard to ignore the state's recent record on energy development and the need to keep it in the forefront.