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| KEYNOTES • APRIL
2008 • THE POWER OF COLLABORATION |
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 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 >>> |
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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 >>> |
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 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 >>> |
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 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 >>> |
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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.
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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...
