Hershey, PA - April 10, 2008 - Intelmarx has been awarded a contract to develop a collaborative social network for the Hershey Center for Applied Research in Hershey, PA. The Hershey Center for Applied Research (HCAR) is a research park that offers life sciences and high technology companies at all phases of the business life-cycle state-of-the-art wet and dry lab facilities and office space, as well as access to capital, business support services, and shared amenities. The campus is located adjacent to the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine, an academic medical institution that is undertaking approximately $100 million annually in research, thereby providing a pipeline of opportunities for collaborations and partnerships between academia and industry. Using Intelmarx's web-based software as a solution (SaaS) community-building product SocialGood and Intelmarx's newest enterprise collaboration web-based product ThoughtShare, HCAR is using the software to help spur partnerships and innovation between research scientists, venture capitalists, state economic development agencies and the research park. (see PDF)