
The four finalist teams will pitch their ideas live to a panel of judges for the $10,000 grand prize in the Y-Prize Grand Finale on February 3, 2020…Read More
The four finalist teams will pitch their ideas live to a panel of judges for the $10,000 grand prize in the Y-Prize Grand Finale on February 3, 2020…Read More
The winners of Penn’s 5th annual Y-Prize Competition, Avisi Technologies, have secured a $225,000 National Science Foundation grant to continue developing their eye implant VisiPlate.…Read More
The Mack Institute’s Spring Conference 2019 examined how companies are using new technologies and a “connected strategy” to improve the customer experience.…Read More
Clinicians and scientists explored the process of evaluating and creating business opportunities.…Read More
The 2019 Y-Prize winners introduced a plan create a new, improved catheter designed to stop costly and deadly infections at the source.…Read More
The Mack Institute’s Fall Conference 2018 examined how a welter of emerging technologies are transforming not only the way we work, but how and whom we hire.…Read More
The finalists in Penn’s seventh annual Y-Prize Competition have collectively proposed one of the most diverse slates of applications in recent memory, spanning infection prevention, saltwater desalination, green energy, and tissue engineering.…Read More
As new technologies cause the boundaries between industries to blur, clear metrics for innovation become increasingly important to setting a firm’s strategic direction.…Read More
Tereza Nemessanyi (WG’97), Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Microsoft, shares how she works to create mutually beneficial relationships with competing startups.…Read More
Alain Neyroud, Principal Blockchain Architect at IBM, discussed the current state of blockchain technology, along with new initiatives that are putting it to work.…Read More
The Penn Wharton Commercialization Workshop offers researchers a three-day innovation primer to help them turn their ideas into successful ventures.…Read More
The team will receive $250K to help them bring their revolutionary glaucoma treatment to market.…Read More
Michael Lee and Henry Zhou of Cellview Sciences share how they balanced their team’s expertise in business and science to win Penn’s 2018 Y-Prize Competition.…Read More
Justin Reilly (W’10), head of customer experience innovation for Verizon Fios, projects that 80% of value creation in artificial intelligence (AI) will be in business-to-business [B2B] applications, and the rest in consumer services.…Read More
Our Fall Conference 2017 asked participants to consider how to effectively link strategy with strong organizational leadership.…Read More
This year’s Y-Prize finalists pitch their ideas live on January 30.…Read More
Since 2012, the Mack Institute has helped host the Y-Prize Competition, a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best commercial applications for an emerging technology.…Read More
Saikat Chaudhuri and Harbir Singh discuss why companies need to cultivate their own innovation ecosystem in this interview on Wharton’s Business Radio.…Read More
The Mack Institute Spring Conference 2017 explored how firms can deploy externally facing strategies for innovation success.…Read More
The second annual Penn Wharton Commercialization Workshop brought together researchers from across the university to learn about launching a new venture based on their work.…Read More