Technavate | A Penn State University-Industry Partnership

	Technavate* is a collaborative partnership with a broad range of educational, community and industry partners for the purpose of supporting knowledge and technology transfer activities. This effort will build an easily accessible, accountable, and responsive process and a shared resource comprising in-reach to the Penn State University system and outreach activities to the business community. Technavate* is unique in the region in that it establishes a University-industry partnership that engages, supports, and sustains innovation and commercialization of technology through entrepreneurial activities in targeted growth areas in the regional economy. Technavates’s goals are to engage the University and the Penn State York campus with industry to provide an open and easily accessible process for knowledge and technology transfer and providing integrated solutions in targeted growth areas in the regional economy, support economic and community development by supporting innovation and commercialization of technology through entrepreneurial activities, identifying and facilitating the transfer and licensing of intellectual property through collaboration with University researchers, industry, and entrepreneurs and promoting the successful development and commercialization of campus and University technology innovations sustain these activities by providing demonstrable and measurable value to our industry partners, and obtain funding through a combination of grants, fee for service activities, and investment funds from targeted high-growth industry clusters in our region.