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GlaxoSmithKline headquarters at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Strong showing from Pa. universities in GSK drug competition

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) just ...

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Old tech, new twist: NeoLucida inventor to speak in Philly Thursday

At its most basic level, it’s a prism on a stick. Aim it at an object, put your eye just above the prism and on the paper below app ...

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 Philadelphia's current city flag, left, and a makeover proposed by local designer Edward Mitchell, right.
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Should this be Philadephia’s new city flag?

The Philadelphia city flag. You really don’t see it that much. “You really don’t,” said Edward Mitchell, a ...

12 years ago

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 Mayor Michael Nutter at the city's FastFWD launch event Wednesday afternoon. (Zack Seward/WHYY)
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Can entrepreneurs improve public safety? Philly launches FastFWD to find out

Philadelphia has its problems. The city wants entrepreneurs to help fix them. In a nutshell, that’s the idea behind FastFWD ...

12 years ago

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Philly’s underrated

Business Insider says Phil ...

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 Workers pack a Real Food Works delivery bag at the startup's Center City headquarters. (Zack Seward/WHYY, file)
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Philadelphia’s city-backed seed fund just announced its first investment

And the first investment from ...

12 years ago

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Philly is getting an Innovators Walk of Fame. Here’s the inaugural class

It ain’t no Hollywood Walk of Fame, but it’s a start. By late 2014, Philadelphia will have its own “Innovators W ...

12 years ago

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Solar-powered battery charger takes top prize in Drexel incubator competition

Every year, Drexel’s Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship puts on a competition. Startups launched by Drexel students and alu ...

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Rutgers instructor: During zombie apocalypse, you’d be fine

With Halloween coming up, an instructor at Rutgers-Camden has a survival guide for you — a zombie survival guide. Kimberlee Sue ...

12 years ago

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Fixing Philly schools with 5 senses

Because scent can fix Philadelphia’s public schools. ...

12 years ago

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Meals from a climate-changed future: GhostFood

Imagine a future where cod, peanuts and, ...

12 years ago

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 Brooklyn-based 3rd Ward is closing its coworking space in Olde Kensington after less than six months. (Nathaniel Hamilton/WHYY)
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Makerspace 3rd Ward unexpectedly closes

So much for all that: 3rd Ward — both the Brooklyn flagship and the newly opened Philadelphia location (which we ...

12 years ago

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A high-tech makeover for the new $100 bill

Starting today, there’s a new $100 bill. “The biggest difference between the old and the new is the 3-D security ribbo ...

13 years ago

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How Pa. startups are getting $75M more in state funding

With government budgets tight, Harrisburg is finding new ways to help Pennsylvania tech entrepreneurs — by borrowing against future tax ...

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‘For profit, for good’: How ‘Junto 2013’ rallied local business leaders

“This is a business retreat, but maybe not the business retreat most people would imagine,” said ...

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