Global Soft Landing - Science Center

The University City Science Center’s Global Soft Landing Program fosters international business in the U.S. by helping global companies establish a foothold in local life sciences and information technology markets. Philadelphia offers a strategic location between, and within easy reach of, the nation's regulatory/legislative hub in Washington and its financial center in New York.  Global Soft Landing provides international companies with fully-equipped laboratories, plug ‘n play offices and access to the Science Center’s full suite of business support programs.

Since introducing the Global Soft Landing Program in 2006, the Science Center has welcomed global companies to the campus from Europe and Asia. Countries currently represented in the Global Soft Landing Program include Belgium, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom.

To help attract qualified and viable global science and technology companies, the Science Center has entered strategic international partnerships with international organizations including:

• Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
• Enterprise Rhone-Alps International
• Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency (AWEX)

The Global Soft Landing Program is funded in part by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s, Economic Development Administration.