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U.S. Dept. of Commerce Joins Statewide Entrepreneurship Support Systems, a Grantee of the New Economy Initiative

The U.S. Department of Commerce officially joined the Statewide Entrepreneurship Support System and portals, a Michigan system funded by the New Economy Initiative to help entrepreneurs link up with the assistance they need.

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Business Accelerator Network for Southeast Michigan Announces Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition

Business Accelerator Network for Southeast Michigan Announces Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition
World’s largest business plan competition will offer more than $1 million in cash awards
for the best and brightest new business concepts

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Supply Chain Strategy

Supply Chain Strategy Could Bring 66,000 New Jobs to Southeast Michigan, Report Says:
By: Bill Shea
Posted: June 30, 2010

Metro Detroit, in combination with the adjacent areas of Ontario and Ohio, could see up to 66,000 new jobs and $10 billion in new annual economic development if the region develops a coordinated cross-border supply chain management strategy.

That's according to an executive summary of a new report made public from the Detroit Regional Chamber and Michigan State University.

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Business Accelerator Network

New Economy Initiative Awards $3 Million to Business Accelerator Network for Southeast Michigan
Network will focus on attracting and retaining business in southeast Michigan

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Plan to aid minority auto suppliers: 150 companies to get coaching, marketing help to diversify

February 11, 2010
JENNIFER YOUSSEF jyoussef@detnews.com (313) 222-2300
The Detroit News
A new program to help 150 minority-owned auto suppliers in Michigan diversify their products will save thousands of jobs, leaders of the Urban Entrepreneur Partnership say.

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CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Science and energy lab to collaborate with MEDC

February 7, 2010
By Amy Lane: (517) 371-5355, alane@crain.com
© 2010 Crain Communications Inc.

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WCC panel: Educating Michigan's workforce would boost state's distressed cities

Posted: 2:03 p.m. January 29, 2010
From AnnArbor.com

Business leaders, workforce experts, political officials and university leaders came together at the Southeast Michigan Regional Stakeholders Event at Washtenaw Community College to discuss various issues confronting the state.

Convincing Michigan workers to attend college is one of the best ways to boost the state's distressed major cities, officials said this morning.

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Metro Detroit: Global Supply Chain Hub of the Future

MSU Partners
Winter 2009 Issue
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Detroit Entrepreneurs Opt to Look Up

By SUSAN SAULNY / The New York Times
Published: January 9, 2010

DETROIT — With $6,000 and some Hollywood-style spunk, four friends opened this city’s only independent foreign movie house three months ago in an abandoned school auditorium on an unlighted stretch of the Cass Corridor near downtown.

After the unlikely hoopla of an opening night, red-carpet-style event in an area known for drugs and prostitution, exactly four customers showed up to see a film.

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2009 Newsmakers of the Year

By Sherri Begin Welch/ Crain's Detroit

David Egner
President, Hudson Webber Foundation and Executive director, New Economy Initiative

Under David Egner's direction, the $100 million New Economy Initiative — the largest foundation-led economic development initiative in the country — stepped up its grant making in 2009.

Egner also has been the driving force behind an effort to attract 15,000 young professionals to live, work and play in the Detroit area by 2015 in his role as president of the Hudson-Webber Foundation.

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What is the New Economy Initiative?

Executive Director David O. Egner provides a brief overview of NEI's efforts to foster entrepreneurialism and employment in southeast Michigan.

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