Innovation Park at
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...
is a
business
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...
and
research park covering in
State College, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the Penn State campus near the junction of
Interstate 99/
U.S. Route 220 and
U.S. Route 322
U.S. Route 322 (US 322) is a long, east–west United States Highway, traversing Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The road is a spur of U.S. Route 22 and one of the original highways from 1926. A portion of it at one time was concurrent with ...
.
History
The university's trustees designated the area for a research park in 1989. Initially known as the Penn State Research Park and opened in 1994, its stated mission was to be the "place where collaboration between the University and private sector companies can grow," and to facilitate the transfer of University-based knowledge "to the market place and to foster economic development". It was renamed Innovation Park at Penn State in July 2000.
The area is the location of a number of university offices, the
Penn State World Campus
Penn State World Campus is the online campus of Pennsylvania State University. Launched in 1998, World Campus grew out of the university's long and distinguished history in distance education that began in 1892. The mission of World Campus is ...
, a conference center, and more than 50 private companies. The production facilities of
WPSU-TV and
WPSU-FM
WPSU (91.5 FM) is central Pennsylvania's only National Public Radio member radio station licensed to the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees as a part of WPSU Penn State. The over-the-air and digital signal reaches 13 counties in ce ...
moved there in 2005.
[Nancy Caronia]
"Looking fine at 40 -- New facility for Penn State Public Broadcasting."
''Government Video'', December 1, 2005 (pay site).
References
External links
Official website for Innovation Park
{{State College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University
Buildings and structures in Centre County, Pennsylvania
Business parks of the United States
Science parks in the United States