U-M students focus on clean energy, entrepreneurship
More and more students at the University of Michigan are focusing their efforts on emerging new economy sectors, such as clean energy. Even more are exploring the idea of commercializing that type of new technology through entrepreneurial studies.Excerpt:Ann Marie Sastry, 42, plays two crucial roles in the advanced battery industry. In the first role, she’s a professor at the University of Michigan who trains graduate students for careers in the electric vehicle industry.Secondly, she’s an entrepreneur, CEO of Ann Arbor-based battery startup Sakti3, who is using her years of research to make the technology less expensive in the future.”You can demonstrate things in a laboratory to your heart’s content. But until you can scale, you can’t address markets,” Sastry said.Read the rest of the story here and about U-M’s TEDx conference here.
More and more students at the University of Michigan are focusing their efforts on emerging new economy sectors, such as clean energy. Even more are exploring the idea of commercializing that type of new technology through entrepreneurial studies.
Excerpt:
Ann Marie Sastry, 42, plays two crucial roles in the advanced battery industry. In the first role, she’s a professor at the University of Michigan who trains graduate students for careers in the electric vehicle industry.
Secondly, she’s an entrepreneur, CEO of Ann Arbor-based battery startup Sakti3, who is using her years of research to make the technology less expensive in the future.
“You can demonstrate things in a laboratory to your heart’s content. But until you can scale, you can’t address markets,” Sastry said.
Read the rest of the story here and about U-M’s TEDx conference here.
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