Science, commerce mixing well at Penn: University center turns ideas into enterprises

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P. Peter Ghoroghchian, University of Pennsylvania's doctoral student, is among the many researchers pitching their innovations to prospective investors and business managers. Bringing Ghoroghchian team's invention, named Fluorocell to market is the task of Penn's Center for Technology Transfer that has helped start 14 companies in 2003, and licenses other ideas to existing firms.

Science & research, Research, Innovations, Evaluation, Nanotechnology, Technology transfer, Ghoroghchian, P. Peter

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Funeral sector on downbeat

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The decrease in death rates every year has resulted in low revenue, scarce profit of the nations big companies that run thousands of funeral homes, cemeteries and crematoria around the country. Due to this Loewen, the second largest death-care company went into bankruptcy in 1999, emerging in 2002 as Alderwoods group Inc., of Cincinnati.

Sales, profits & dividends, Funeral Homes and Funeral Services, Funeral service and crematories, Funeral Services, Labor Distribution by Employer, Mortality, Statistics, Company sales and earnings, Company earnings/profit, Funeral industry, Alderwoods Group Inc.

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Parties flip roles over how Pa. makes purchases

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The Rendell administration, Philadelphia, that is pushing with a new policy for state purchases of goods and services that it believes would save taxpayers $100 million a year is discussed. The critics feel that it is yet another way of outsourcing that would hurt small businesses.

Use of services, Small Business, SOHO, Outsourcing

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