DETROIT - The deadline to apply for the $1 million Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition is Aug. 14 for companies and Sept. 26 for students. Top prize for the business winner is $500,000. AMIC showcases the best and brightest new business concepts to investment capital to help foster their growth within Michigan. Targeting entrepreneurs with mid-to-late
ANN ARBOR ? The deadline to enter the Entrepreneur YOU business plan competition ? open to female entrepreneurs who have or are planning to establish a business in Michigan, has been extended to Aug. 7. Participants will submit entries in three competition levels: Women Owned or Led High Growth Businesses, Life Style Businesses and Social
DETROIT - TiE Detroit ? Talent, Ideas, Enterprise - invites high school students to enroll in a life changing unique program TiE Young Entrepreneurs. Seats are limited. Application deadline is Aug. 15. TYE will accomplish this objective by offering training and mentoring program to selected high school students who learn about the challenges and rewards
DETROIT - Compuware Corp. surprised Wall Street and beat first quarter earnings estimates, which has been rewarded with more favorable ratings from some analysts. The computer software and services company reported this week adjusted earnings per share increased 100 percent to a penny in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 ended June 30 compared
LANSING - Michigan Corporate Relations Network this week announced five more Michigan companies have won Small Company Innovation Program grant awards. The new grants, designed to promote research partnerships between Michigan small businesses and the universities comprising MCRN, are in addition to eight awarded in May as part of the latest round of SCIP grant
ANN ARBOR - Six Michigan companies recently received investments from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund totaling $1.5 million. So far, 89 Michigan companies have received more than $20 million in seed funding from a collaborative effort of Michigan?s SmartZones. What?s more, Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund companies have attracted more than $27 million in matching grant
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan's Ross School of Business announced Wednesday the appointment of Stewart Thornhill as the executive director of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, pending approval of the University of Michigan Board of Regents. He is the successor to Tom Kinnear, who has been the
HOUGHTON ? The MTEC SmartZone has been awarded a $36,000 grant from the Business Accelerator Fund to assist a tenant company, Endres Machining Innovations, develop innovative tooling products for the metal-cutting industry. The BAF will help EMI launch its first product. EMI is using the BAF grant to cover the installation of and employee training
ANN ARBOR ? The New Enterprise Forum is celebrating its tenth anniversary in July during its unusual entrepreneurs month, featuring business success stories hinging on a wacky product or service idea, lucky timing in a market segment, or a chance encounter that become the big break. To celebrate the decade mark, this year NEF will
SOUTHFIELD ? The Michigan Israel Business Bridge is hosting a reception July 17 at Lawrence Technological University with more than 20 Israeli automotive suppliers looking to work with Michigan companies. RSVP by July 8. The reception features a review of the Michigan Trade Mission to Israel last month by Mike Finney President and CEO of