Digital Health and Medical Devices represent two of the most significant areas of medical technological growth and innovation.  Most of Michigan’s activities in this space are clustered regionally around discrete geographic locales (SmartZones and/or university research clusters) to support local companies contiguous to their locales:

 

• Southeast Michigan / Southwest Ontario, spanning an area from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario

• West Michigan, encompassing the Holland / Grand Rapids area

• Southwest Michigan, including Kalamazoo and Battle Creek

 

MI Innovation Alliance has been working with state, national, and international innovation and industry leaders who see great promise for the state in expanding beyond the contiguous location model. The structure of such an endeavor is still under development with plans that include:

 

• Working with major Michigan healthcare centers, nationals caregiver organizations, and local, regional, national and international innovators and universities to better leverage the resources of the multi-state region and Canada in digital and mechanical life science and healthcare, as well as in many non-medical fields with cross-over technology potential

• Utilizing industry-developed sets of “Technology Innovation Needs” to seek out promising new technologies on a global crowd-sourcing basis

• Evaluating those technologies in a multi-round format, with the finalist selection at an annual event held in Michigan with a major partner

• Establishment of a comprehensive support network of companies and industry experts willing to help mentor innovators, support industry partnership introductions and/or facilitate collaborative projects to achieve faster commercial success

 

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