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Titan Energy Development, a biodiesel research firm that works out of NextEnergy in Detroit's TechTown, has won a $1.1 million grant thanks to a 2007 Defense Reauthorization Bill. Titan currently employs five professional researchers and plans to add three more to its staff in early 2007.
The PhD nursing program at Wayne State University in Detroit ranked 5th in the country according to a recent rating from a New York-based nonprofit.
Thirteen local firms showed their stuff at the annual Las Vegas International Consumer Electronics Show last week.
Ann Arbor-based SPARK, a business development group, is distributing $6.6 million in start-up money for tech businesses in Michigan. The businesses will be focussed on alternative energy, homeland security, life sciences and automotive research.
Environmentally sensitive, beautifully detailed innovative modern building design is sprouting up all over Southeast Michigan.
Nine metro Detroit community colleges will share a $2.15 million federal grant to develop a core curriculum in "innovation education."
Cerenis Therapeutics, with employees in Ann Arbor and France, landed the largest venture capital investment in the state with a $52 million investment from a group of investment companies this fall and plans to double its staff within the next 18 months.
Grand Rapids-based Greenbuilt Michigan has extended its services to the entire state of Michigan, meaing construction professionals statewide will have better access to the nonprofit's green training.
NextEnergy was awarded a $150,000 grant from the Michigan Public Service Commission to develop and host a web-based fleet processing tool. The tool is designed to assist fleet managers in determining “what kind of technology would be best suited for how they use their vehicles,” explains NextEnergy’s director of program development Jim Saber.
EnVironmental Transportation Solutions, based out of Grosse Pointe Woods, has developed a proof-of-concept urban-based low-speed electric vehicle ready for line production.
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