February 10, 2011
21st Century Funds
Accuri Cytometers, one of the original 21st Century Jobs Fund awardees, is being purchased by one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, Becton Dickinson and Company. Accuri, the Ann Arbor-based life sciences company, produces affordable, easy to use flow cytometers that are used in blood cell analysis.
In 2006, MEDC awarded a$2 million loan to [...]
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advanced technology,
high-tech medical industry
February 3, 2011
Biotechnology
Forbes Magazine’s Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow, author and executive editor of newgeography.com sees the Midwest “coming back’’ using several Michigan strengths as examples and praising the new administration of Gov. Rick Snyder as well as successes in Kalamazoo.
Kotkin argues, “With enhanced power in Washington and more common sense government at home, the Midwest could [...]
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