Ann Arbor Green Fair Continues A2Fiber Momentum
The tenth annual Ann Arbor Green Fair took place on Friday, June 11th along Main Street. SPARK attended the event in hopes to maintain and increase community support, interest and awareness of the A2Fiber campaign. The A2Fiber campaign is the community organized initiative created when applying to be chosen by Google to place high speed fiber cables around the city for faster internet. SPARK teamed up with the University of Michigan and the... [Read More...]
Top 5 reasons the University of Michigan’s student entrepreneurial movement matters
As featured on annarbor.com December 7, 2009 by Nathan Bomey Here’s AnnArbor.com’s Top 5 reasons why the University of Michigan’s student entrepreneurial movement matters to the Ann Arbor region. 1. U-M is putting dollars behind it. The Center for Entrepreneurship recently collaborated with various partners to establish TechArb, a permanent student business incubator in the McKinley Towne Centre next to Google and Ann Arbor SPARK. 2.... [Read More...]
Nanosystems featured in the Detroit Free Press
“In just four years, John Nanos has gone from teaching organic chemistry at the University of Michigan to building a multimillion-dollar company that’s helping the environment. Katherine Yung profiles Ann Arbor SPARK client Nanosystems in October 4th, 2009 feature.” http://www.freep.com/article/20091004/BUSINESS06/910040435/1002/Business/Greener-chemical-products-allow-start-up-to-blossom “But Nanos, who got his bachelor’s... [Read More...]
Local Entrepreneur Launches T-Shirt Company
University of Michigan basketball star and co-captain turned local entrepreneur, David Merritt has announced that he’s starting a new line of “feel good” t-shirts. The IMU Brand t-shirts not only feature street-savvy designs but also boast a community give-back component, where proceeds from the launch event will be donated to Mott Children’s Hospital, employees of I Miss You commit to weekly community service and purchasers of the product... [Read More...]
Open Source Economic Development and Statewide Cooperation
At Ann Arbor SPARK, our immediate goal is to promote economic development in the Ann Arbor region. But our larger focus is ensuring long-term growth and viability for the entire state of Michigan — something that can best be achieved through a process we call Open Source Economic Development. We don’t view any place in the state of Michigan as competition to us. We view the rest of the state as partners. If there are things that we can do... [Read More...]
Frankel Fund Makes First Investment
The U of M Frankel Commercialization Fund invests in Arbor Photonics I can only imagine how excited the students participating in the Frankel Commercialization Fund program at U of M must be now that they have made an investment. The fund has been around for more than a year and the students came close to making two investments last spring but never closed. Now, with an $85,000 investment in Arbor Photonics they have finished the investment process... [Read More...]
