Connect With a Network of Research Excellence at Smeal.

The Research Centers at Smeal offer a world-class resource for knowledge creation. Our corporate partners bring us their most pressing business concerns in areas such as supply chain management, business-to-business marketing, and entrepreneurship. We then assemble a community of leading researchers from Smeal, Penn State, and other institutions, as well as senior executives from sponsor companies and government organizations, to address these challenges.

Working together, we achieve what no enterprise can do as efficiently alone. That is, we shape the business practices that enable organizations to achieve competitive advantages in efficiency, innovation, market presence, and ultimately, profitability.

The Research Centers at Smeal reflect Penn State’s mission to develop business solutions in partnership with the communities that will directly benefit from them. Over the years, a rich tradition of research has emerged with an impact that is both sound and robust. In fact, Penn State ranks among the top five universities in the nation for industry-sponsored research. And Smeal ranks among the top fifteen business schools in the world and among the top five public institutions for research productivity since 1990.