KEYNOTES APRIL 2008 THE POWER OF COLLABORATION
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Ben Franklin Technology Partners:
25 Years of Catalyzing Economic Growth
through Collaboration



The biggest economic challenge facing the Commonwealth today is a source of endless debate. When I became president of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce, I knew that our region—and the state as a whole—faced major hurdles as the gears of heavy industry downshifted... MORE >>>

CENTRAL/NORTHERN PA
CNP.BENFRANKLIN.ORG
  Collaboration and Innovation Go Hand in Hand in Central/Northern PA Region
NORTHEASTERN PA
NEP.BENFRANKLIN.ORG
  Ben Franklin, ESC and ESPI: Collaboration Means Manufacturers Receive Three Times the Expertise
  2008 i xchange: Mark Thompson to Keynote at Technology Networking Event and Awards Ceremony
SOUTHEASTERN PA
SEP.BENFRANKLIN.ORG
  Nanotechnology Institute Funded Again with $3.5 million from State of Pennsylvania
  Mid-Atlantic Angel Group: Taking Up Residence in BFTP's New Navy Yard Offices
  Two New Members Elected to Board of Directors for BFTP Southeastern Office
SOUTHWESTERN PA
INNOVATIONWORKS.ORG
  Robert Morris University's CARES Program Receives $75,000 in Grants from BFTP
  Vivisimo: Clustering Web Data for a Different Kind of Search
PA BIOTECH CENTER
Dr. Timothy Block and colleagues are defining a new way of nurturing innovation at this hub of research and entrepreneurship in Bucks County, which received an $815,000 federal grant for road-testing new biotechnology ideas. MORE >>>
FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR
As technologies like cell phones and laptops have gotten smaller, the semiconductors used to power them have conversely gotten larger. When it comes to the semiconductor wafers that go in battery chargers, bigger certainly means better. MORE >>>
PESTPATROL
The first company to create software specifically designed to identify and extract spyware on personal computers launched in 2000 with help from Ben Franklin. Today the company is more successful than ever before. MORE >>>
ALPHALAB
This new Pittsburgh-area business accelerator, founded by BFTP Innovation Works, focuses on emerging software entrepreneurs, providing up to 12 companies per year with office space, funding and intense business mentoring. MORE >>>
9 QUESTIONS WITH
DICK THORNBURGH

Thornburgh, PA's governor from 1979 to 1987, was one of the prime promoters of the legislation that created the Ben Franklin Technology Partners in 1983. KEYnotes interviewed him about the organization's 25th anniversary. MORE >>>