Category: Philadelphia
This is just a quick update for the announcement about the upcoming event at the University City Science Center tomorrow, September 8, 2009. The event is by invitation only.
CONTACT:
Jeanne Mell VP Marketing/Communications
University City Science Center
215-966-6029
PHILADELPHIA--(September 2, 2009) – The University City Science Center is demonstrating its commitment to sustainability and the environment by joining the Greater Philadelphia Green Business Program. The Science Center has joined companies across the Philadelphia metropolitan area in making a public promise to change its daily business practices to reduce impacts on the environment.
“Joining the Greater Philadelphia Green Business program is the latest example of the Science Center’s commitment to environmental responsibility,” says Science Center President and CEO Stephen S. Tang, Ph.D. “From our newest building at 3711 Market Street in West Philadelphia, which has one of the largest green roofs in the city, to designating a green office advocate, we believe that environmental principles can – and should – go hand in hand with standard business practices.”
Like other members of the Greater Philadelphia Green Business Program, the Science Center committed to reduce impacts on the environment by adopting green operational practices that include:
· Raising awareness of sustainability efforts and environmental issues within the company and business community at large.
· Reducing energy use at the facility.
· Engaging in purchasing practices that minimize environmental impacts within business and throughout the supply chain
· Reducing the carbon footprint of employee travel by encouraging alternative commuting and fuel economy
· Reducing the volume of waste generated by business, recycling as much waste as possible.
· Reducing the business’s aggregate water use and discharge of pollutants into storm water runoff.
The Science Center is currently one of only two Platinum Members of the Greater Philadelphia Green Business program.
About The Science Center
The University City Science Center accelerates technology commercialization, regional economic development, and the market availability of life-enhancing scientific breakthroughs by bringing together innovations, scientists, entrepreneurs, funding, laboratory facilities, and business services. Established in 1963 and headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, the Science Center was the first, and remains the largest, urban research park in the United States. It provides services that range from incubator space with fully-equipped laboratories and “plug ‘n play” offices for entrepreneurs to path-breaking programs designed to demonstrate, nurture, and sustain new technology businesses and bring their benefits to the region and the world. For more information about the Science Center, go to www.sciencecenter.org.
Diverse group of newly funded companies boasts healthcare innovations, efforts toward energy conservation and workplace communication enhancement
PHILADELPHIA, PA (
www.sep.benfranklin.org) – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/SEP) recently approved investments totaling $1,200,000 for seven early-stage Pennsylvania companies with novel technology innovations.
“We are encouraged to see the steady flow of innovative companies in our region. Their bold confidence is a statement about the nation’s entrepreneurial spirit…the key to a recovery,” said RoseAnn B. Rosenthal, President & CEO of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania. “In this time of hard budget choices, we urge our elected officials to maintain their investment in the job and revenue generators of our economy,” she added.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners (BFTP) was established as an Economic Development Corporation in 1982 as a means to create and support technological innovation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Last year marked the 25th Anniversary for BFTP and their 2008 Annual Report states that since 1989 they have boosted the state's economy by $17 billion. There are four regional offices each responsible for supporting companies and entrepreneurs in their area. A little while ago I spoke with Jaron Rhodes Marketing and Communications Manager for Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/SEP). BFTP/SEP is responsible for working with companies in a large region, parts of it include Philadelphia, Bucks County, King of Prussia and Fort Washington.
PHILADELPHIA --(August 13, 2009) – More than 40 high-paying life sciences jobs will remain in West Philadelphia as two life sciences companies move into the University City Science Center’s newest building at 3711 Market Street on the Avenue of Technology in Philadelphia, PA.
Leading the way is Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc., with 37 jobs. Just four years after it spun out of the University of Pennsylvania, Avid has outgrown the 5,000 square feet of space it occupied in the University City Science Center’s Port Business Incubator for startup companies at 3624 Market Street. Today, Avid announced that it moved into 16,000 square feet of custom-fitted office and lab space on the seventh floor of the Science Center’s new 155,000-square foot building at 3711 Market Street.
The University City Science Center is located in University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Science Center was founded in 1963 with the formation of the research park in the heart of the nation’s fledgling “Eds and Meds” economy. Since then, the Science Center has grown to an enormous size, housing now three Port incubators and 2 million sf of lab and office space. I spoke with Jeanne Mell VP of Marketing Communications at the Science Center and we talked about the latest additions to the Science Center, including their newest building, 3711 Market St, the newest Port incubator, Quorum clubhouse and the QED Program for proof of concept funding.
