LANSING - The deadline for nominations for the second annual Governor's University Award for Commercialization Excellence (ACE) is March 17. Two $25,000 cash prizes are up for grabs for Michigan public university researchers.The awards will be presented at the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium May 16 at the Eagle Crest Conference Center in Ypsilanti. Lead Researchers
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Institute Chairman and CEO David Van Andel will keynote the March 16 Rotary Club of Grand Rapids luncheon by discussing what it will take to sustain the explosive growth of the life sciences industry in Western Michigan. Grand Rapids has experienced well over $360 million in health science industry development
LANSING - More than 4.5 million visitors to the state's web site use cell phones, personal digital assistants and other mobile devices to get online info. The state responded Monday by launching a mobile version of its e-Michigan web site to accommodate these wireless users. The mobiel Michigan site connects to some of the state's
SOUTHFIELD - Airfoil Public Relations, which began its business life in 2000 as a five-person tech-focused PR firm, has since grown its staff eight-fold, built a portfolio of a dozen clients, and cracked the $6 million annual fees barrier. In April, Airfoil will pass another milestone when it opens an office in California to take
LANSING - Companies that get Michigan tax breaks would be required to pay them back if they outsource jobs from state operations to overseas plants, and they would also have to give workers 60-days notice their jobs are being moved, under a proposal Senate Democrats unveiled on Monday. The proposals would also call on companies
GRAND RAPIDS - Former SageStone Solutions President Mark Lardieri on Friday bought a minority stake in CQL, a custom software developer in Grand Rapids. Lardieri was named president of CQL last May. Lardieri had been president of SageStone until the company was purchased by NuSoft Solutions in November 2004. "When I negotiated my contract to
LANSING - Michigan could lose $49.3 million of its anticipated $274 million in the Tobacco settlement, a decision that could weigh heavily as the state prepares its 2007 budget, and could impact the plans for the state to invest $2 billion over the next decade to develop high-tech businesses. Tobacco companies involved in the Master
ANN ARBOR - The financial foundation of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest, heavily eroded last summer, has been rebuilt by the return of some traditional sponsors and by the the recruitment of several new ones. GLEQ, a statewide business plan competition that began with heavy state backing in 2000, nearly died in 2005 before it
LANSING - Michigan's minimum wage workers would see their pay jump from the current $5.15 an hour to $6.95 an hour beginning in October under legislation the Senate unanimously and surprisingly approved on Thursday. The House is expected to pass the bill next week, which would mark the first increase in Michigan's minimum wage in
LANSING - Repeal of Michigan's 30-year-old single business tax got a jump start Thursday by House Republicans who voted out a repeal bill in committee and called on Gov. Jennifer Granholm to get on board or become a bystander to one of the biggest tax changes in Michigan's history. Republicans say they aren't arguing that