
INNOVATION FEATURE
Teaching Tomorrow's Innovators
Growing Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor is now offered at all Penn State campuses. Not every student graduates looking for a job. The entrepreneurial spirit can strike early, and Penn State is answering the call for programs and resources to support young people with big ideas. Teaching entrepreneurship in the classroom isn’t exactly a new concept […]
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Get up close and personal with the Materials Research Institute’s latest endeavors
Penn State’s 2024 Materials Day is coming up! Materials Day is an event that connects Penn State talent with companies and shares Penn State’s latest research and discovery with industry, government and service partners. The event is designed to share Penn State’s vast materials research knowledge and infrastructure with

Ben Franklin, Phospholutions and Penn State: Making historic innovations in agriculture
By Beverly Molnar Phospholutions, a sustainable fertilizer company committed to creating technology-based solutions for food production and environmental challenges by enhancing the efficiency of phosphorus use, is a Happy Valley startup success story — and a perfect example of how the Happy Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem can provide multiple, simultaneous resources

“Making the impossible possible”
By: Sarah Taylor Some of SilcoTek’s coated products | Image Credit: SilcoTek’s “where can you buy SilcoTek coated products?” blog Phones, laptops, smart refrigerators and manufacturing line machines. What do they all have in common? They all need microchips. Everyone uses some type of these electronic devices, but not many

Different disciplines are a catalyst for innovation at X-Hab 3D
by Holly Riddle X-Hab 3D’s new mobile, semi-autonomous, concrete printing system | Image Credits: Bruce Kraselsky LinkedIn In 2022, HappyValley Industry covered the beginnings of a startup that had recently found a home in CATO Park. X-Hab 3D, originally born from a NASA Centennial Challenge and the work of Penn
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