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Global Innovation Tournament Helps Students Find Their Inner Entrepreneur
Hundreds of students from Penn State and other universities are gearing up to compete in a most unusual global competition: They will have just eight days to ...
Garber Fund Portfolio Company Ranked Highly By Inc. Magazine
Schoolwires Inc., a privately owned company in State College, Pa., that has been partially funded by the Garber Venture Capital Fund at Penn State's Smeal ...
Adobe 'Idea Mentor' To Speak On Fostering Innovation At Work
The leader of Adobe Systems Inc.'s innovation efforts is scheduled to lead an interactive workshop on "intrapreneurship" next month at Penn State's Smeal ...
Business Accelerator Helps Penn State Student Entrepreneurs Launch Startups
A business accelerator launched this summer for Penn State undergraduate entrepreneurs is already home to six businesses, and has plans to provide seed money, ...
Competition Aims To Find, Nurture New Business Ideas At Penn State
Penn State students, faculty, and staff who have an idea for a viable business venture are invited to enter a new competition that will equip them with the ...
Smeal Professor Earns Honor At National Entrepreneurship Conference
Robert Macy, clinical assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, was part of a team honored with one of two 2008 ...
Smeal Professors Awarded $385,000 National Science Foundation Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $385,000 research grant to two professors at Penn State's Smeal College of Business to study the architecture of ...
Farrell Center To Co-Host Expert Speaker On Entrepreneurial Engineering
The Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business and the Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor in the ...
Farrell Center To Host Entrepreneurship Summer Camp
Penn State Outreach and the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Smeal College of Business are hosting a weeklong summer camp ...
Five Teams Of Entrepreneurs To Compete In IdeaPitch Final
he inaugural Penn State IdeaPitch Competition comes to a close on April 30 as five business ideas—from mass-produced fresh sushi to a new building material—go ...
Drywall Alternative Wins Inaugural Penn State IdeaPitch Contest
A forthcoming company that will manufacture, market, and distribute a synthetic wallboard alternative to drywall has won the inaugural Penn State IdeaPitch ...
Smeal Senior Wins $10,000 Ideablob Competition
For the second time this year, a startup business idea generated at Penn State has won a national competition for the nation’s best small business idea.
Report: Penn State Among Top Universities For Tech Entrepreneurs
A new report from The Kauffman Foundation lists Penn State as one of the top ten universities graduating founders of technology companies.
Garber Fund Invests In Molecular Biology Company
The MBA student managers of the Garber Venture Capital Fund at Penn State's Smeal College of Business have voted to invest $250,000 in Indigo Biosciences Inc., ...
MBA-Managed VC Fund Earns 55 Percent On Early Stage Investment
The Garber Venture Capital Fund at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has sold its total holdings of 150,000 shares in Schoolwires Inc. for a total return ...
Online Network Connects Entrepreneurs And Economic Development Orgs.
Penn State has a launched a new online network to connect Pennsylvania entrepreneurs with the collective intelligence of all of the state's regional economic ...
MBA Student Venture Capital Fund Seeking Startups For Investment Consideration
Nittany Lion Venture Capital, an MBA student organization at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, is in search of five or six startup companies that are ...
Conference To Explore Issues In Early-Stage Venture Investing
Leading angel investors, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs from across the country will convene at Penn State's University Park campus on March 20 for the ...
Smeal Forms Sustainability Council
Penn State's Smeal College of Business has formed a Sustainability Council to foster collaboration across the college on sustainability-related research and ...
New Smeal Blog Offers Faculty Perspectives On Business News
Penn State's Smeal College of Business has launched a new blog featuring faculty research and commentary on breaking business news. The blog, named Business ...
Startup Software Company Wins Smeal's IdeaPitch Entrepreneurship Competition
A startup business founded by a Ph.D. student in Penn State's Eberly College of Science won first place and $2,000 in the second annual IdeaPitch competition ...
Smeal's Garber VC Fund Invests In Two Companies
The MBA student-managed Garber Venture Capital Fund at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business closed two investments during the spring 2009 semester.
Smeal Professor Earns National Teaching Honor
The United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), the U.S. affiliate of the International Council for Small Business, has honored ...
Garber Fund Grows Investment In DiamondBack Automotive Accessories
The Garber Venture Capital Fund, a $5 million student-managed fund at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, recently invested $25,000 of its $200,000 second ...
Smeal Professor Judges, Writes Case For European Competition
A Smeal College of Business professor serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Europe recently created a business case and judged a unique cross-border innovation ...
Software Invention Takes Three Student Entrepreneurs To Silicon Valley
Three Penn State students recently turned a class project into a tech start-up already worth millions of dollars, taking them from Happy Valley to Silicon ...
Penn State Team Finishes Second In Innovation Competition
A team of Penn State graduate students and faculty members, including a student and professor from the Smeal College of Business, recently tied for second at ...
Princeton Review: Penn State 15th In Entrepreneurship
The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine have ranked the MBA Program at Penn State's Smeal College of Business as one of the top such programs in the ...
Penn State, Temple University Recognized For Leadership In Entrepreneurship Education
The two largest universities in Pennsylvania, Penn State and Temple University, have been recognized by the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers ...
New Faculty Member Joins Smeal, Others Honored
Penn State's Smeal College of Business recently hired a new chaired professor, while another faculty member was appointed to a named professorship and another ...
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