BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.0B
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At the University of Pennsylvania, you'll find a historic, Ivy League school with highly selective admissions and a history of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship. You'll also find a picturesque campus amidst a dynamic city and a world-class research institution. Today Penn is home to a diverse undergraduate student body of nearly 10,000, hailing from every state in the union and all around the globe. Admissions are among the most selective in the country and Penn consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Another 10,000 students are enrolled in Penn's 12 graduate and professional schools, which are national leaders in their fields. The Wharton School is consistently one of the nation's top three business schools. The School of Nursing is one of the two best in the U.S. The School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Education, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, and Annenberg School for Communication all rank among the top 10 schools in their fields.
Number of Employees 20,000
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Weiss Tech House Announces 2008 PennVention Competition Winners
- 2008-04-16
PHILADELPHIA -- A new prosthetic accessory that is worn on the residual limb of a transtibial (below-knee) amputee was awarded the Grand Prize at the Fourth Annual PennVention competition for student inventors at the University of Pennsylvania's Weiss Tech House. This year's PennVention competition drew 50 student invention submissions, featured...
Carlos Garcia Awarded as Entrepreneur of the Year
- 2007-11-27
KIRA Inc., the preeminent military base facilities maintenance and construction contractor, today announced its president and CEO, Carlos Garcia, was recognized by Hispanic Business Magazine as Entrepreneur of the Year. Garcia, a highly recognized entrepreneur in the defense industry, took top honors in both Heavy Industry and overall Hispanic...
Backbone of Success: NP Solutions Wins Wharton Business Plan Competition Grand Prize with Next Generation Back Pain Treatment
- 2007-04-26
RejuvaDisc[TM] Injectable Hydrogel Provides Alternative to Implants, Spinal Fusion for $4.87 Billion Market PHILADELPHIA -- Student team NP Solutions, which has developed a polymer based injectable hydrogel treatment for back pain related to degenerative disc disease that is less invasive, more effective with fewer side effects than current approaches,...
Weiss Tech House Announces Finalists of PennVention Competition; Student Inventions Impacting Defense, Entertainment, Medical, Others
- 2006-03-23
PHILADELPHIA, March 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The first ever Ivy League invention competition that unites distinguished entrepreneurs with students to develop and launch innovative technologies through unique programming is offering a glimpse into the technological future with the announcement of ten finalists chosen to compete in the second annual PennVention...
Experienced Entrepreneurial Founders and Venture Capital Funding
BNET
- 2004-08-01
Using a novel dataset of 149 early stage start-up firms, this paper empirically examines how prior entrepreneurial founding experience affects the timing and valuation of venture capital VC funding. The results suggest that entrepreneurs differ in accumulated human and social resources, which in turn have measurable effects on VC timing...
SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES COMPETITION.
- 2003-10-15
(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) SINGAPORE, Oct. 15 /XFNHK-AsiaNet/ -- Singapore Management University SMU today announced the launch of the second Lee Kuan Yew LKY Global Business Plan Competition with a combined prize money of close to US$70,000. It is open to...
Entrepreneurship, Financial Intermediation and Aggregate Activity
BNET
- 2003-08-07
This paper studies the effects of credit market imperfections on output, the average size and distribution of firms and the level of financial intermediation of the economy. It builds a dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents. Households choose whether to become workers or entrepreneurs depending on their own productivity...
University City Science Center Internships in Entrepreneurialism
- 2002-10-11
Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers PHILADELPHIA--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 11, 2002 UCSC Developing a World-Class Technology? ...
Program at University of Pennsylvania Turns Engineers into Entrepreneurs.
- 2002-03-17
By Brendan January, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 17--When Mike Dominik and three coworkers at Lockheed Martin in Moorestown wanted to found their own software and consulting company, they had a small problem. None of them knew how...
The 2001 Maurice Holland award: to Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan
- 2002-03-01
In recognition of the authorship of "Assessing Technology Projects Using Real Options Reasoning, "deemed to be the best original paper published in RESEARCH*TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT in 2000. The winning paper was selected for pertinence, significance and originality of new management concepts related to the field of research management. Rita...
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