Think of it as a Head Start program for budding entrepreneurs. U-M's Office of Tech Transfer teams students from a variety of backgrounds with university researchers and innovators to start new companies from scratch.
Upscale, tasteful and tasty, Logan is one Ann Arbor's must-visit bistros. With a menu and ambiance that would feel at home on either coast, it's one of the few restaurants in town where you can actually have a conversation with your dinner date.
It's all about playing nice together. Concentrate has reported on everything from food co-ops, to co-living communities to coworking facilities. It only seems fair to throw a little love to the A2Mech Shop, a shared technical space for entrepreneurial engineers and innovative mech heads.
V2V's racks are filled with the kind of stuff you can buy 'off the rack' ... if you know what I mean. It's the kind of place that'll carry only five a particular outfit and then "pfft" it's gone. Located in Ann Arbor's Kerrytown, this urban-style boutique attract customers far and wide.
Built in the early 1950s, the Palmer House has been referred to as the “Michelangelo" of Frank Lloyd Wright's residential masterpieces. And now you can spend a night, a week, or even a month in this home with no right angles.
There aren't many places where you can get locally grown meat and help your fellow citizen at the same time. Dawn Farm in Ypsilanti is a fully functioning farm where patients recovering from addiction can work hard, get well and do good.
We have officially entered the realm of sci-fi style technology. Ann Arbor's Solidica makes wireless sensors that can not only communicate the status of distant vehicles and machinery, but also predict where systems might fail. It's a brave new world after all.
It's May, and along with the proverbial showers comes the Commuter Challenge, where local companies encourage their employees to use alternative transportation to get to work. Concentrate decided to go meet some of these carless commuters and what inspires them.
It's all about efficiency - lighter, stronger, more flexible. Flexsys is taking U-M born innovations into the marketplace (that's called tech transfer for you newbies) to improve wind turbine and aerospace technologies... and, of course, grow our high tech economy.
$41.9 million dollars and 53, 000 extra feet later the U-M Museum of Art reopened with an around-the-clock celebration that brought out a whole lotta local love. Concentrate takes you on a tour of this beautifully renovated center for arts and culture.
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