Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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November 16, 2016
Open-access automated cars to advance driverless research
New U-M research vehicles will be open testbeds for academic and industry researchers to rapidly test self-driving and connected vehicle technologies at a world-class proving ground.
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November 16, 2016
$1.65M grant aims to help regional manufacturers hurt by imports
A business assistance center at U-M plans to use a $1.65 million federal grant to help manufacturers in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana improve their global competitiveness and enhance business growth.
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November 16, 2016
Mike Psarouthakis to direct Tech Transfer Venture Center
Mike Psarouthakis has been named director of the Tech Transfer Venture Center, which is responsible for helping to identify, develop and launch new startups based on U-M technologies.
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November 10, 2016
Monroe-Brown Seed Fund awards $400K inaugural investment
The Monroe-Brown Seed Fund has made its inaugural investment of $400,000 in two U-M biomedical startups: Genomenon Inc. and Brio Device LLC.
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November 4, 2016
Doll family gives $2M to endow entrepreneurship director position
Venture capitalist and U-M alumnus Dixon Doll and his wife, Carol, have given $2 million to endow the position of executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship.
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November 3, 2016
Midwest universities form innovation alliance with $3.5M NSF award
A new four-university alliance led by U-M will help researchers across the Midwest turn their inventions into marketable products to benefit society.
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October 19, 2016
Center for Entrepreneurship receives $200K for tech-to-market program
The Michigan Strategic Fund has approved extended funding for its “Train the Trainers,” a program managed by U-M’s Center for Entrepreneurship.
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October 15, 2016
$27M investment to globalize driverless vehicle research
A $27 million investment from a firm from Shenzhen, China, will strengthen U-M efforts to advance autonomous, connected vehicles and robotic technologies around the world.
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October 11, 2016
Student-led Zell Founders Fund makes first investment
A new student-led $10 million seed fund at the Zell Lurie Institute has chosen its first company to support: Sneakers by Jordana, started by recent alumnus Jordana Schrager.
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October 6, 2016
Battery startup Elegus Technologies enters $1.5M joint venture
U-M startup Elegus Technologies has formed a $1.5 million joint venture with two major industry players in an effort to make safer, longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries.
