6. A123 Systems LLC
Leslie Green - Top executive: Jason Forcier, CEO Patents in 2015: 13 Score: 123.96 A123 Systems develops and manufactures nanophosphate lithium iron phosphate batteries, nickel manganese cobalt...
View Article7. Plastipak Packaging Inc.
Leslie Green - Top executive: William Young, president and CEO Patents in 2015: 11 Score: 122.07 The evolution from bottling water in glass jugs to plastic bottles got Plastipak its start. Yet, as...
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8. Ilumisys Inc. dba Toggled
Leslie Green - Top executive: Jim Scapa, founder, chairman and CEO Patents in 2015: 11 Score: 121.47 Ilumisys Inc., a subsidiary of Altair Engineering Inc., makes LED lighting products to replace...
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2016 Eureka Index: Breaking with traditional technologies
Leslie Green - Telephones have evolved from tools that just make calls to mobile instruments that entertain, inform and help users complete myriad transactions. Medical products have become smart. "And...
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Study: For a company to innovate, the leader must lead
Bob Niemiec - Innovation is a goal many organizations have difficulty achieving. To discover what's truly holding organizations back from innovation, Twisthink conducted a survey of 200 senior...
View ArticleUM's Tech Transfer Venture Center names new director
Tom Henderson - Mike Psarouthakis has been named director of the University of Michigan's Tech Transfer Venture Center in Ann Arbor. He replaces Jack Miner, who left in September to become managing...
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Analysis: Detroit's new mobility chief must be a prime mover
Dustin Walsh - The city of Detroit just got serious about mobility. The hiring of veteran transportation and engineering executive Mark de la Vergne puts the city, which has historically struggled...
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Ford's patents hint at shape of transportation in future
Michael Martinez Automotive News - Ford Motor Co. received more patents this year than any other automaker, a first for the Blue Oval as it increases the technology in vehicles and dabbles in...
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Neuvokas raises the bar on manufacture of rebar
Tom Henderson - "I work with a lot of companies in Michigan, and this is one of the few that can be a billion-dollar company," Arcadio Ramirez, technology business consultant for the Michigan Small...
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StabiLux sees colorful future in cell analysis technology
Tom Henderson - StabiLux Biosciences Inc. was just what Steve Tokarz was looking for when he began working with Michigan Technological University in Houghton last summer — a promising technology...
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Michigan Tech spinoff's device screens would-be donors' blood — before donation
Tom Henderson - MicroDevice Engineering Inc., a spinoff from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, is aiming to market a battery-operated device to help blood donation centers determine blood...
View ArticleLife sciences sector is heartbeat of Michigan innovation
Fred Molnar - When you think of medical innovation, you may think of San Diego, Boston or the San Francisco Bay area. But entrepreneurial activity in medical innovation has been flourishing across...
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Mobility R&D in Michigan: An interactive map
Dustin Walsh - Michigan's future hinges on its largest industry's ability to adapt to the transformation cultural change happening throughout the country. Tomorrow's consumer will be less dependent on...
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Detroit should build its own innovation hub, iPhone co-creator says
Katie Burke Automotive News - Tony Fadell, iPhone co-creator and Detroit area native who upended the mobile phone industry, has a message for Detroit: Don't move to Silicon Valley. Fadell said...
View ArticleTaking tech from concept to commercialization requires many steps
Michael Melfi - Often an individual has an idea for an invention and either does not know what to do with the idea or invention, or even worse, has unrealistic expectation of what is possible for...
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NAIAS touts new mobility event, but exhibitors look to Las Vegas
Dustin Walsh - The North American International Auto Show is competing with the Consumer Electronics Show, whether it wants to or not, and Detroit's first attempt to deliver a blow to the increasingly...
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Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania to cooperate on automated vehicles
Associated Press - LANSING — State government, universities and researchers in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania are teaming up on efforts to develop connected and automated vehicles. The "Smart Belt...
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A drone's-eye view: Technology helps brokers sell real estate
Kirk Pinho - Many real estate companies are turning to drone and video technology in the digital age to market their properties, and many high-profile Detroit projects — ranging from Little Caesars...
View ArticleTechTown Detroit to host contest to improve Lake Erie
Annalise Frank - Erie Hack Water Data and Engineering Hackathon, a tech-focused competition that aims to address Lake Erie's challenges, will hold several events at TechTown Detroit, the business...
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