http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/our-demography-signals-our-future/ A Forum for Our State's Future Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:09:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/our-demography-signals-our-future/comment-page-1/#comment-1348 David Stout Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:21:01 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/?p=1242#comment-1348 "Another part of the problem: The scanty number of exciting, high-tech start-up companies in the state. Comparing the tolerance for risk in Michigan’s business culture with, say, Silicon Valley is illuminating. Aside from the companies in the supply chain, it’s hard to find many technology-driven new companies spinning out of our auto industry. But go to the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto and you'll find lots of entrepreneurs who bear it as a badge of honor that they started two, three, four companies which went bust … and then hit a home run on the last one. And you’ll find lots of young people excited about a career with such an outfit." Right, Phil. Tough to break the vicious circle, but building a hi-tech cluster based on Ann Arbor and U of Michigan as centre of excellence should be the way to go: a University Industrial park. I've copied your piece to Bob Gordon and Ernie Hartz. "Another part of the problem: The scanty number of exciting, high-tech start-up companies in the state. Comparing the tolerance for risk in Michigan’s business culture with, say, Silicon Valley is illuminating. Aside from the companies in the supply chain, it’s hard to find many technology-driven new companies spinning out of our auto industry. But go to the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto and you'll find lots of entrepreneurs who bear it as a badge of honor that they started two, three, four companies which went bust … and then hit a home run on the last one. And you’ll find lots of young people excited about a career with such an outfit."
Right, Phil. Tough to break the vicious circle, but building a hi-tech cluster based on Ann Arbor and U of Michigan as centre of excellence should be the way to go: a University Industrial park. I've copied your piece to Bob Gordon and Ernie Hartz.

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