Pennsylvania Economic Development Institute and PEDA Present:

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

March 31, 2014

Web Seminar

Bridging the Gap Between Economic Development, Academia & Business

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ACADEMIA & BUSINESS

In a competitive marketplace, students, businesses and col-leges are all looking for ways to connect and gain a distinct advantage. In 2006, the Innovation Transfer Network (ITN) was launched in an attempt to leverage intellectual capital by bridg-ing the gap between economic development, academia and the business community. Over the course of these past several years, ITN has attracted over $3 million to Central Pennsylvania, in-cluding an investment of $500,000 in new technology products and services and $5,000,000 in leveraged capital.

This session will demonstrate how collaboration between eco-nomic development, local colleges, universities and the business community can lead to the creation of jobs, accelerated com-pany growth and the engagement of intellectual capital across a region’s academic landscape. Best practices and case studies of collaboration between students, companies, and entrepreneurial faculty will be discussed.

Who should attend? Professionals who will benefit from this session will come from a broad range of backgrounds to include economic development professionals, those who work for or with the business community, colleges and universities (small and large), entrepreneurs and innovators, investors and venture capitalists, developers of technology, business incubators, etc. Those who count business development among their profes-sional responsibilities will also benefit as presenters utilize real world success stories to illustrate how collaboration between businesses and institutes of higher education can benefit their communities.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT UNITS

This event qualifies for 1.50 organizational PDUs (Entrepre-neurship) through the Pennsylvania Economic Development Institute (Institute).* REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration Fees: The per person registration fee for PEDA members is $75 and for non-members is $99.

Cancellation & Refund Policies: Requests for cancellations and refunds must be made in writing and received by close of business March 21st. No refunds will be granted after that point. All refunds are subject to a $50 administrative fee. No-shows will be billed in full.

Questions: Contact Joshua Skopp at (717) 441-6047 or jskopp@wannerassoc.com.

*A complete explanation is provided in the Guidelines for Certification of Economic Development Organizations (Guidelines) issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) and in the Institute’s Policies and Procedures.

*Note: We reserve the right to reschedule or cancel this offering. In the event of a cancellation, a refund will be provided to registrants.

PRESENTERS: Jill Edwards is the Executive Director of the Innovation Transfer Network (“ITN”), a virtual technology transfer program sponsored by the Commonwealth of PA supporting 16 colleges and universi-ties in the Harrisburg/Lancaster/Reading PA region. She graduated Magna cum Laude in Foreign Languages from Millersville Univer-sity. She has had an extensive career in the banking industry, during which she held positions as a small business lender, headed up a community banking group and served as the head of HR, Marketing and Security for a start-up bank.

Ms. Edwards has also had 16 years’ experience in economic devel-opment, particularly in entrepreneurial development. She served as the Director of Small Business Incubation Programs for the York County Economic Development Corporation and, while there, held leadership positions in the Pennsylvania Incubator Association. She has freelanced in economic development, doing grant writing for a variety of regional economic development organizations. She has served as a business reviewer for the Ben Franklin Technology Partnership, conducted training programs for the York Chapter of SCORE and has acted as a mentor for the Athena PowerLink Busi-ness Advisory Council.

She also serves as the Executive Director of Ben Franklin Venture Investment Forum, whose mission is to promote entrepreneurship in PA by assisting entrepreneurs in their preparations to seek private equity and providing training in various financial topics to emerging growth companies.

Richard Dennis is the President of Die-tech, a 40 year old, second generation, family-owned precision metal stamping company. Die-tech’s current success is due to Richard’s strategic vision of di-versification into medical and automotive markets, adoption of lean operating practices, and innovation in the engineering and manage-ment of progressive dies.

When Die-tech was expanding aggressively into the healthcare sec-tor and wanted to better understand market trends regarding medical devices, ITN identified and coordinated a meeting with faculty from both Penn State College of Medicine and Lancaster General Health.

This market intelligence meeting with ITN and faculty – a precursor to Die-tech embarking on a series of meetings with select medical industry companies – led directly to Die-tech closing $100,000 of additional revenue and – one year later – to the generation of an ad-ditional $1 million in the revenue pipeline due to the collaborative efforts of ITN.

Mark Kraenbring is CIO and one of the founding partners of The APAK Group, provider of innovative and effective software solutions and automation integration for a variety of industries and applications. Mark is primarily responsible for the development and integration of their software product, Accence, a comprehensive suite of tools that can be tailored to each client’s needs.

APAK has collaborated with ITN to help push its innovation further with Accence. ITN’s conversations with APAK turned into an MBA class project at Lebanon Valley College under the direc-tion of Joel Kline. Deliverables included a theoretical model of an HR application of APAK’s software and a market feasibility study of that product. The hand-off of deliverables has taken place and APAK has added this new dashboard to its product line for sale to its customers.

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ACADEMIA & BUSINESS

March 31, 2014

REGISTRATION FORM

Attendee Information: One registration per form. For additional registrations, copy this form or download additional forms from www.peda.org. All requested information is required. Log-in credentials will be provided to registrants in advance of the session.________________________________________________________________________________________________Full Name Title________________________________________________________________________________________________Company________________________________________________________________________________________________Address________________________________________________________________________________________________City State Zip________________________________________________________________________________________________Phone Emergency Phone ________________________________________________________________________________________________Email Fax

REGISTRATION

Registration will remain open through COB on March 26th. Please select a registration option below.

PEDA Member - $75 Non-Member - $99

Total Amount Due $ _____________

Payment Enclosed Check requested/will follow in the mail

PAYMENT

1. Check – Download this form, complete required information and mail, with check made payable to Pennsylvania Economic Development Association, to 908 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg, PA 17102 or fax form to (717) 236-2046.

2. Credit Card – Go to www.peda.org to register and pay by credit card for the event.

Cancellation & Refund Policies: Requests for cancellations and refunds must be made in writing and received by close of business March 21st. No refunds will be granted after that point. All refunds are subject to a $50 administrative fee. No-shows will be billed in full.

Questions: Contact Joshua Skopp at (717) 441-6047 or jskopp@wannerassoc.com.

Note: We reserve the right to reschedule or cancel this offering. In the event of a cancellation, a refund will be provided to registrants.

This event is recognized by the EDP certification program of the Northeastern Economic Developers Association (NEDA).

In addition to being recognized by PEDA and PEDI, this event is also recognized by the EDP certification program of the Northeastern Economic Developers Association (NEDA).