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U-M co-sponsors conference on plug-in electric vehicle industry
"The Business of Plugging In" is the inaugural conference on plug-in electric vehicles (PEV). The three-day meeting in Detroit brings together leaders from the automotive, utility and new technology industries with policy makers, financiers and researchers for interactions on business development, education and networking. The U-M joined DTE Energy and General Motors and founding partners in sponsoring the conference, October 19-21, 2009. [Read more...]
U-M and DTE offer $100,000 to winner of this year’s Clean Energy Prize competition
The University of Michigan and DTE Energy have partnered to engage the next generation of leaders in clean energy and increase the speed of energy innovation. For the 2009-2010 academic year, we are offering a $100,000 Clean Energy Prize to help draw emerging technologies out of university labs in the state of Michigan and into the commercial space. Entrants must turn in an Executive Summary and Intent to Compete by Friday, November 20. [Read more...]
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. Royalties from university-developed technologies rose 20 percent during that period, another all-time high. And despite the state's economic woes, the university licensed eight new startups in the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to the U-M Office of Technology Transfer. [Read more...]
Communicating Research Progress and Challenges
Essay by Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Dean Entrepreneurial Programs, College of Engineering
Search & Discovery Home
(reposted from Associate Dean Thomas Zurbuchen's Blog with permission)
Research institutions, such as the University of Michigan, generally underestimate the necessity to communicate their progress and their challenges they are encountering. [Read more...]
URC gains in comparison to nation’s other R&D clusters
Since benchmarking began in 2007, University Research Corridor (URC) partners U-M, Michigan State University and Wayne State University have improved in several key areas that show their impact on Michigan’s economy and demonstrate their competitiveness with the best innovation clusters in other states, according to Empowering Michigan, the latest annual study of URC impact conducted by Anderson Economic Group (AEG). “Even in tough times, these three institutions are showing the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, making a $14.5 billion impact on Michigan’s economy, up almost 10 percent,” says URC Executive Director Jeff Mason. [Read more...]
Students help green-technology firms in Michigan
U-M students in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ross School of Business worked with a local venture firm, Turtlerock Greentech LLC, to review business plans and potential investment opportunities as part of the firm's efforts to promote green technologies and sustainable enterprises. [Read more...]
NIH awards to 2 U-M faculty for high-risk research and innovation
NIH announced today that David Markovitz and Nikolaos Chronis are among 115 recipients of funding under the Common Fund's Roadmap for Medical Research. Markowitz will receive one of the NIH Director's Transformative R01 Awards, and Chronis is recipient of a NIH Director's New Innovator Award. These awards are given to encourage investigators to explore bold ideas that have the potential to catapult fields forward and speed the translation of research into improved health. [Read more...]
Nanoparticle-based battlefield pain treatment a step closer to practical use
University of Michigan scientists at the Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences (MNIMBS) have developed a combination drug that promises a safer, more precise way for medics and fellow soldiers in battle situations to give a fallen soldier both morphine and a drug that limits morphine’s dangerous side effects. The combination drug system could also lead to much improved pain management for millions of patients with chronic illnesses, adds James R. Baker, Jr., MNIMBS director and Ruth Dow Doan Professor in the Medical School. [Read more...]
U-M Responds to Challenges of State’s Fledgling Film Industry
In dramatic terms, the story of how the Michigan economy is diversifying to include a fledgling film industry resembles the end of act 1 of a 3-act play. The challenge now is whether there is public patience—and political will—to cultivate the state’s growing reputation as a “film friendly” place, and plant the seed for a new film industry in Michigan to compete with production centers around the world. [Read more...]
Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Celebrates 10th Anniversary
The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies (ZLI) at the Ross School of Business kicked off its 10th anniversary celebration with the start of the 2009-2010 academic year. The institute was established in 1999 with an endowment of $10 million from Samuel Zell and Ann Lurie, on behalf of her late husband Robert H. Lurie. ZLI counts milestones in the areas of innovation, new venture creation, and action-based learning, as well as the creation of robust funding and grant initiatives for student entrepreneurs. [Read more...]