In 2026 America marks 250 years — and it does so in the city where the argument started. Philadelphia has spent two and a half centuries turning ideas into industry and industry into infrastructure, from the first hospital and the first stock exchange to the machine shops that armed a continent. INNOVATE® Philadelphia: 250 Years of Innovation takes the semiquincentennial as a starting point rather than a finish line, and asks a simpler question: what is Philadelphia building next?
The answer runs across medicine, manufacturing, energy, robotics and the neighbourhoods themselves. This volume features the people and organisations shaping the region’s next chapter — among them the University of Pennsylvania Health System, The Wistar Institute, AUM BioTech, PECO, DVIRC, the Naval Welding Institute, Integral Molecular and the community organisations rebuilding the city block by block. Two hundred and fifty years on, the city that invented American self-invention has not finished inventing.
