Keystone Innovation Zone
Where Innovation Meets Opportunity
The Keystone Innovation Zone brings together entrepreneurs, businesses, educational institutions, and community partners to foster innovation and economic growth across Pennsylvania. By supporting emerging businesses, encouraging collaboration, and connecting innovators with valuable resources, the initiative helps create new opportunities, strengthen local economies, and build a more competitive and innovative future for the Commonwealth.
What is KIZ?
Keystone Innovation Zone
An incentive program designed to encourage innovation and support the growth of young, innovative companies by offering tax credits to for-profit businesses in specific industry sectors.
Key Features:
- Tax credits (up to a cap, typically $100,000 per company per year) tied to growth in gross revenues generated within the KIZ.
- Credits can be carried forward and, in some cases, sold or reassigned to other taxpayers.
- Eligibility generally requires that a business:
- Is located within a designated KIZ.
- Has been in operation less than eight years.
- Operates within targeted industry sectors defined for that zone (e.g., technology, life sciences).
Who's It For
Entrepreneurs, Startups & Growing Businesses
The Keystone Innovation zone is structured for innovative growth companies and startups in sectors the state has targeted for technology and entrepreneurship development.
Properties in the KIZ
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