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Why Michigan should lead private-sector space race
John Sitkiewicz - President Barack Obama's decision nearly five years ago to ground the NASA shuttle program and put the future of American space exploration into the hands of the private sector...
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Crain's Homecoming, 4 other Detroit innovators win Knight Cities Challenge
Amy Haimerl - Five Detroit innovators — including Crain’s Detroit Homecoming project — are winners of the first Knight Cities Challenge, hosted by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The...
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International FIRST Robotics competition coming to Detroit
Kirk Pinho - Detroit will be one of two host cities for the FIRST Championship, the world's largest student robotics competition, for three years starting in 2018. The robotics events, which will take...
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Tech projects lift Tome into profitability, spur growth
Less than a year after Royal Oak-based Tome Inc. was launched with a seed round of $250,000 to try to carve out a niche in what has become a hot tech sector — the Internet of Things — the company is...
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Ford Global considers bike biz
Tom Henderson - Is Ford Motor Co. going to become a bicycle manufacturer?Maybe, said Bill Coughlin, president and CEO of Ford Global Technologies LLC.The company is testing that idea with the help of...
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Birmingham inventor turns 'aha moment' into marketable solution for slippery...
Laura Cassar - When Nancy Oram was 19, she had a strong interest in inventing things, and so she started an idea notebook. One of the ideas in that notebook was for a disposable toilet seat cover. "I...
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Brighton firm doubles revenue as chemical coating attracts cruise lines,...
Bill Shea - Thomas Choate loves research and development. He loves to experiment, tinker, invent. He's at home in the laboratory. As founder and chief technology officer of a small Brighton-based...
View ArticleMessage for nonprofits: Changing world will pass you by unless you act now
Sherri Welch - Nearly 100 local nonprofit leaders gathered Monday at the Detroit Zoo to hear about the most pressing industry trends from Washington, D.C.-based Independent Sector and share the...
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Brainstorming at Packard
Crain's Detroit Business - On Tuesday, Detroit Future City is hosting a session for the public to come and Think Big Thoughts on "opportunities for innovation in Detroit." And while we at Crain's like...
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Inventor feels good vibrations with floor scrubber
Chad Halcom - Glen Moore sold his contracts and closed his Oakland County cleaning company more than a decade ago, but he hasn't given up trying to ease the workload for janitorial service workers —...
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Startup's magic bullet for safer lithium-ion: Fiber in Kevlar
Tom Henderson - Elegus Technologies Inc., one of the 10 startups that began a three-month accelerator program Techstars launched at Ford Field this month, hopes the same material that helps Kevlar...
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3 years after death, Stan Ovshinsky still a tech game changer, this time with...
Tom Henderson - Three years after his death, Bloomfield Hills inventor Stan Ovshinsky is on the verge of his greatest triumph, if Stephen Breezy is right. The bankruptcy of the company Stan founded in...
View Article5. Magna Electronics Inc.: Auburn Hills automotive supplier
Gary Anglebrandt - Top executive: Jake Hirsch, president Patents in 2014: 24 Score: 143.32 Magna Electronics makes electronic systems for automobiles. This includes basics like controllers for...
View Article6. Rubicon Genomics Inc.: Ann Arbor biotechnology company
Gary Anglebrandt - Top executive: James Koziarz, president and CEO Patents in 2014: 3 Score: 139.80 Rubicon develops and manufactures biological tools for genetic testing used in drug development and...
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7. Ovonyx Inc.: Sterling Heights semiconductor company
Gary Anglebrandt - Top executive: Tyler Lowrey, CEO Patents in 2014: 13 Score: 135.50 Ovonyx comes from the patent-inducing mind of the late Stanford Ovshinsky, better known for his Auburn Hills-based...
View Article8. Imra America Inc.: Ann Arbor automotive supplier
Gary Anglebrandt - Top executive: Takashi Omitsu, president Patents in 2014: 28 Score: 134.58 Imra America is the laser research and development arm of Japanese automotive supplier Aisin Seiki Co....
View Article2. Global IP Holdings LLC: Sterling Heights auto supplier
Gary Anglebrandt - Top executive: Nick DeMiro, president Patents in 2014: 19 Score: 147.20 Global IP Holdings is a patent-holding company belonging to Mayco International LLC, a manufacturer of body...
View Article3. NeuroNexus Technologies Inc.: Ann Arbor medical devices firm
Gary Anglebrandt - Top executive: Daryl Kipke, executive director Patents in 2014: 5 Score: 145.80 A subsidiary of Frisco, Texas-based Greatbatch Inc., NeuroNexus is a University of Michigan spinoff...
View Article10. Innovative Surgical Solutions LLC (Sentio LLC): Wixom medical device...
Gary Anglebrandt - Top executive: Chris Wybo, president Patents in 2014: 3 Score: 130.70 Sentio makes a medical device that allows surgeons to avoid the tangle of nerves near the spine. President...
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12. Gentherm Inc.: Northville automotive supplier
Gary Anglebrandt - Top executive: Dan Coker, president and CEO Patents in 2014: 14 Score: 123.06 The publicly traded supplier of heated seats and automotive climate control parts ranked No. 2 last...
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