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In order to assist entrepreneurs with technology transfer, two Penn State and one state resource has been provided. Penn State runs Office of Technology Management and Penn State Research Foundation. Through TechCelerator program, Ben Franklin Technologies runs Research to Start-up. These programs are there to help entrepreneurs facilitate technology transfer.

Penn State has a few programs that allow university-industry collaboration. Penn State is working on increasing university and local industry collaboration. Some of the programs that exist today are The Learning Factory (where teams of students are given projects and budgets by industry to solve a problem within a semester), Hackathons (companies such as Microsoft and Google hold their Hackathons at Penn State), and the Engineering Design Program (where students learn to use industrial tools such as CAD) Currently, Penn State is working on increasing university relations with State College local entrepreneurs.