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Breaking ground for innovation

By Patricia Mroczek

An artistic rendering of the building.
The economic re-development of Flint gained momentum in October when Kettering University broke ground for a facility dedicated to developing new science and technology opportunities in the region.

Kettering President Stan Liberty announced that the University will construct an approximately 12,000-square-foot, multi-tenant facility called the Kettering University Science and Technology Laboratory Incubator Building. "This new building will support scientific and technologically-based 'start-up' companies

Incubator Building Details
that need dedicated laboratory space during their first three or four years," he said. The $2.7 million facility is made possible by support from the U.S. Department of Commerce, State of Michigan funds through the City of Flint, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

Prospective companies for this new incubator will come from three sources:

  • "spinouts" from regional universities, their faculty members and student entrepreneurs;
  • regional scientific and technological entrepreneurial start-ups; and
  • entrepreneurial start-up companies currently outside Michigan that wish to relocate.

"The mission of Kettering's new Science and Technology Laboratory Incubator is to provide resources and opportunities to encourage and grow high-tech entrepreneurship as a core strategy for the economic development in mid-Michigan," Liberty explained. "This mission also supports Kettering University's direction for the development of an entrepreneurship culture through not only educational programs but also faculty and student spin-off commercialization opportunities," he added.

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