Pennsylvania Governors Rendell, Ridge, and Thornburgh lauded the Ben Franklin Technology Partners as a model statewide economic development program that drives technology-based entrepreneurship and technological innovation that are key to economic prosperity. At the Pennsylvania Cable Network website, click on “Technology Based Economic Development – 9/17/2010 (scroll on downward arrow on menu to right) to view the State Science and Technology Institute conference session of September 15, 2010.