2021 Annual Report:
Resilience
The resilience of so many BFTP clients during the pandemic helped us innovate to recovery, and created and retained highly paid, sustainable tech-based jobs.
2020 Annual Report:
Innovating to Recovery
Learn how Ben Franklin is accelerating the economic recovery by creating good jobs and innovating against COVID-19 and future crises.
2019 Annual Report:
Igniting the Spark
An idea alone, no matter how brilliant or innovative, isn’t enough to build a viable company. The spark needs to be ignited.
2018 Annual Report:
A Job Creation Factory
Ben Franklin works with ventures that offer significant potential for future job growth through the development of a technology.
2017 Annual Report:
Incubating Entrepreneurship
BFTP/NEP’s mission is to promote, sustain and invest in the development of our regional economy through innovation and partnering.
2016 Annual Report:
Incubating Innovation
BFTP’s long and successful experience in business incubation has been pivotal to the success of dozens of PA companies.
2015 Annual Report:
The Energy of New Ideas
Ben Franklin supports the discovery of new ideas. Like electricity, many of our clients’ discoveries transform the world.
2014 Annual Report:
Leveraging the Investment
The “secret sauce,” of Ben Franklin Technology Partners, which we have been building and developing purposefully for over 31 years, is leverage.
2013 Annual Report:
Inspiring Innovation
Each client and industry is different. We’ve developed networks and approaches that combine to support our clients on an individualized, enterprise-wide basis.
2012 Annual Report:
Then, Now, Tomorrow
This year’s annual report celebrates the 30-year anniversary of the Ben Franklin Technology Partners by highlighting our clients’ achievements.
The Statewide Economic
Impact of Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin Technology Partners is a catalyst for technology-based entrepreneurship and technological innovation and a driver of economic growth.
Statewide Ben Franklin 30th
Anniversary Retrospective
The success of BFTP’s portfolio clients ripples throughout the PA economy, contributing to new jobs, new growth, new investments and higher Gross State Product.
Ben Franklin TechVentures:
Incubating innovation
Ben Franklin TechVentures provides an entrepreneurial culture that fuels innovation and accelerates the growth of the region’s technology economy.
2010 Annual Report: Energizing PA’s Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur” is not merely a synonym for the founder of a start-up company. Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, an attitude, sometimes an innate drive.
2009 Annual Report: Energy to Economic Development
Now more than ever before, companies must bring “energy” to the marketplace and do something that no one else has done before.
If Passion Drives You, Let Reason Hold the Reins
The key to harnessing the power of passion is to temper it. A modicum of real-world prudence provides balance and must be integrated into planning.
