ANN ARBOR - OcuSciences, an Ann Arbor technology start up, has won the $25,000 Grand Prize in the Emerging Company category of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest. The awards ceremony was Thursday night in Lansing. OcuSciences was co-founded by Drs. Victor Elner and Howard Petty from the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center and has
TROY - MITechNews.Com readers can sponsor the September Celebrate Michigan Expo and receive a $50 discount on exhibit tables. The deadline for the deal is June 30. Sponsorships are available and MITechNews readers receive a $50.00 discount on $300.00 exhibit tables priced for readers at $250.00. The Celebrate Michigan Expo is Sept. 29 at the
ANN ARBOR - The Frankel Commercialization Fund, a student-managed angel capital seed fund at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, has announced its second investment - $71,000 to BeholzTech a company founded in Flint by Lars Beholz, a visiting associate professor of chemistry at Kettering University. BeholzTech's technology effectively coats polyolefin plastics, making
LANSING - Michigan's new business tax is complicated with a number of provisions that are detrimental to businesses, and not enough information has been distributed to this point so that many companies don't even know about credits that will help offset the tax burden, said a report of a subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee
MACKINAC ISLAND - Several of the proposals Governor Jennifer Granholm has made in the past three years have bogged down in the Legislature, so Friday she asked members of the Detroit Regional Chamber to help her get those issues moving. In one case she offered a direct payback for that help. Though she did not
LANSING - While little legislation overhauling Michigan's utility and energy regulatory system has moved so far from the Senate Energy Policy and Public Utilities Committee, its chair, Sen. Bruce Patterson (R-Canton), said committee members are working towards resolution of the issues. But that does not necessarily mean there will be a "straight line to an
LANSING - It took about half a dozen votes, but the Michigan Legislature has finally agreed to a capital outlay budget that includes federal pass through dollars for state airport projects without 39 university and community college construction projects tagged on as the House concurred in Senate changes to HB 5221 on Tuesday and sent
LANSING - Consumers Energy customers will see a rate increase next month, but not as much as the utility had requested. Business customers will see even less of a hike as their support of residential customer rates is removed. The order (case No. U-15245) provides an overall 2 percent increase, or about $27.47 million annually.
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan's Life Sciences Institute is launching a $10 million fund to shepherd promising biomedical discoveries from the lab bench to the marketplace, what biomedical researchers and venture capitalists call the Valley of Death. Called the Innovation Partnership, it uses philanthropic gifts to bridge this critical funding gap. More than
PORT HURON - BioPro was chosen for the Microsoft Extreme Small Business Makeover, valued at up to $25,000, part of the ConnecTech Port Huron Tech Expo in May. The winner was revealed June 5 at the Quay Street Brewery. Finalists for the Microsoft Extreme Small Business Makeover also included Kerr Albert Office Supplies & Equipment,