Leslie D. Green
Special to Crain's Detroit Business - Michigan is in a fight for mind share. At least, that's how Automation Alley COO Tom Kelly sees it. State-based companies that invest in the Internet of Things will control the brainpower of their own products — the technology and the data — or that power will go to Silicon Valley or China. For this reason, along with increased brand loyalty, productivity and cost savings, accelerators, venture capitalists and manufacturers are investing business acumen and big dollars in startup
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