Welcome to Penn State Technology Development

What is the Innovation Café?

The Innovation Café is an exciting focal point for expanding and sustaining the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Central Pennsylvania, including:

• Recurring networking forums featuring high-profile guest speakers discussing industry innovations, business trends, and regulation, and its impact on the life sciences sector.

• Featured company speakers highlighting start-up activity and introducing regional stakeholders to entrepreneurs, intellectual capital, and commercialization opportunities.

• A platform to engage with investors, entrepreneurial faculty, talented students and industry professionals committed to creating a vibrant start-up community.

  
  

The next Innovation Cafe event is scheduled for Thursday, June 14th, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM at the University Conference Center, on the College of Medicine Campus. View Campus Map (#16)

Guest Speaker:  Mr. Gary Schoeniger, Founder and CEO, The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative and co-author of "Who Owns the Ice House?"

Featured Company:  Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc., CEO, William G. Hearl, Ph.D.  

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Come grow with us: Engage through the Innovation Café.

Email us at technologydevelopment@hmc.psu.edu with questions or comments.

To view our lectures and seminars, click the links below:

Innovation Cafe Presentations

• Innovation Cafe (April, 24, 2012) Event agenda.
• Innovation Cafe (March 5, 2012) Event agenda.
• Innovation Cafe (January 11, 2012)

Educational Presentations

• Invention Disclosure: Timing Is Everything! (April 3, 2011)
• Developing an Idea into a Product (February 7, 2011)
  • IDE Group PowerPoint Presentation (Developing an Idea into a Product)
• Patent Law Reform Presentation (November 15, 2011) 

Webinars

• NCET2 - University Technology Showcase Webinar Series - Technology Transfer at The Pennsylvania State University (December 6, 2011)

 YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AN OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

"Have You Developed Research Tools Other Scientists May Need?"

Penn State Hershey has announced an agreement with KeraFAST to assist faculty who are interested in making their research tools available for sale. Learn more about the KeraFAST opportunity and the options you have to market your tools and materials for the benefit of science and your research.

Presented by Dr. Zachary Cary

Director of Business Development, keraFAST 

The event will be held:
Thursday, May 17, 2012
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Hershey Center for Applied Research, Suite 1103 (Pharmacology Classroom)

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