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Improving efficiency in teaching hospitals
MedHub is an application that documents and manages residency program data. What began as a series of projects for the U-M Health System has evolved into MedHub, Inc., a company that markets the innovative technology to hospitals all around the country.
Sailing into new markets
S2 Yachts has a longstanding relationship with the University of Michigan, both as a recruiter of naval architects and mechanical engineers, and as a corporate partner. It’s a relationship that continues to evolve.
Coleman: U-M in good financial shape
U-M President Mary Sue Coleman talks with Bloomberg’s Lori Rothman and Mark Crumpton about the university’s finances and partnership with Google Inc. to digitize books.
Annual Report on Technology Transfer, Industry Research and Economic Development
By leveraging U-M’s greater than $1 billion of research volume, and working hand in hand with partners, the university is working to reignite the economic power of our region that has long been a source of prosperity for our state and nation.
Operation Navigation: Business Engagement Center
U-M’s Business Engagement Center helps connect industry and the University
Wolverine Venture Fund continues track record of industry firsts
HandyLab, a long-time portfolio company of country’s first student-led venture fund, under agreement to be acquired by leading global medical technology company
Record number of U-M inventions reported last year
University of Michigan researchers disclosed 350 new inventions in fiscal year 2009, setting a new record.
U-M physicists create first atomic-scale map of quantum dots
The atomic-scale allows researchers to see information such as the chemical composition of the quantum dots for the first time.
URC impact reaches $14.5 billion
The URC’s focus on innovation and research has led to substantial economic growth
Untapped energy powers startup
A U-M TechStart spin-off, Vortex Hydro Energy, works to capture untapped energy in the ocean currents, and hopes to create jobs in the process.
U-M’s Pfizer site acquisition is ‘watershed moment’
U-M’s acquisition of Pfizer’s 30 building site marks a transition of massive proportions.
From mind to market
Dr. James Geiger, director of U-M’s Medical Innovation Center, facilitates the transformation of medical inventions from mind to market.
Unleashing ideation
U-M’s Tauber Institute for Global Operations stokes heated competition between teams of Michigan business and engineering students who are determined to reenergize U.S. and global industries.
Building Michigan’s entrepreneurial future, one company at a time
Venture capitalist Tim Petersen (MBA ’98) has a proverbial green thumb when it comes to seeding and growing high-potential entrepreneurial companies that can help to revitalize Michigan’s economy.
U-M completing $108 million acquisition of Pfizer site
The site, which will be renamed the North Campus Research Complex, will spur U-M research growth and partnerships with the private sector.
Student entrepreneurs open business incubator
With help from the U-M Center for Entrepreneurship and RPM Ventures, a group of students has started a small-business incubator in the basement of an Ann Arbor building.
Ideas take off: Student entrepreneurs at work
Neurophysiology for elementary students. Crowdsourcing for product development. Socially-conscious t-shirts. These are three student businesses getting started in Ann Arbor with help from the University of Michigan’s Center for Entrepreneurship.
Michigan national leader in life sciences despite recession
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — As Michigan lost a quarter of its manufacturing jobs, Michigan’s University Research Corridor partners helped the state become a national life sciences leader, boosting the number of jobs 10.7 percent as average wages jumped 29 percent, according to a new analysis released Thursday.
The University of Michigan: Partner for an Innovation Economy
The University of Michigan is committed to playing a pivotal role in transforming the economy of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region, Vice President for Research Stephen Forrest says in a video welcome to the Innovation Economy Web site.
U-M spinoff Lycera to receive $36 million financing
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The University of Michigan spinoff company Lycera Corp. has closed on $36 million of venture capital financing.
Clean Energy Prize – an entrepreneurial Olympics for energy technology
Putting energy research on the fast track to market has kicked off a new competition in Michigan.
University Research Corridor: Universities promote economic development
It was after working as a team during a successful trade mission to Japan that the presidents of U-M, Michigan State University and Wayne State University decided to formalize their alliance as Michigan’s University Research Corridor.
President Mary Sue Coleman pledges university role in economic development
Research universities such as U-M can make a powerful difference in re-inventing the Midwest economy, President Coleman told the City Club of Cleveland Feb. 6, 2009. By drawing upon education and innovation, and finding new partners outside of academe, U-M and others are advancing economic development, Coleman told business and university leaders gathered at the luncheon event.
Business Engagement Center links U-M and business community
The U-M Business Engagement Center started operations in January 2008 to strengthen the University’s ties to business and community partners and to help revitalize and diversify the state of Michigan’s economy. In that brief time, the BEC has handled inquiries from over 100 companies and hosted over 200 campus visits.
U-M biomedical engineer honored at annual Celebrate Invention reception
Unlike most of us, inventors look at seemingly intractable problems and see opportunities for innovation.
That’s exactly what biomedical engineer Charles Cain and his colleagues did to create a novel ultrasound surgical tool that destroys prostate cancer tumors.
U-M plans to buy former Pfizer facility
In a move that would directly create at least 2,000 jobs during the next decade and accelerate expansion of the University of Michigan’s research activities critical to the state’s economic development, U-M plans to purchase the Ann Arbor property of pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc.