University of Michigan’s Stephen Forrest: ‘We’ve got to commit to something’

Ann Arbor’s newest tech chief, Stephen Forrest, is making the case for more incentives to lure more new economy businesses to Michigan.Excerpt:Stephen Forrest doesn’t mind picking winners.In fact, he thinks it’s imperative.Forrest, the University of Michigan’s vice president for research and chairman of Ann Arbor SPARK, is a fervent proponent of leveraging university technology to reconstruct Michigan’s economy on the backbone of alternative energy and other technologies. Michigan’s attraction of $1.3 billion in battery grants from the U.S. Department of Energy in July marked a key step in the state’s economic revival plan, he said. Read the rest of the story here.