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 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.
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October 3, 2016
Tech Transfer reports 12 startups, sets record for industry licenses
U-M signed a record 173 license and option agreements with companies seeking to commercialize discoveries of university researchers in the past fiscal year.
