As Michigan slashes higher education budgets, state university programs that encourage entrepreneurship and innovation are confident that support from businesses and private donors will keep them healthy.
Excerpt:"Tim Faley, managing director of the University of Michigan’s Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, says such programs are “beyond the tipping point.”
Like MSU’s Entrepreneurship Network, Wayne State’s Blackstone LaunchPad or his own center, most campus innovation programs are endowed, Faley said."
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