When I’m on my Fall Tech Tour around Michigan
and I ask university tech transfer officials to see their four or five coolest
“science projects” that have economic development potential, they always say
they have so many it’s a tough choice.
But try to imagine the tough choices faced by the University of Michigan, which has a research budget of a staggering $1.2 billion-plus a year, consistently among the top five in the nation. How the heck do you pick?
Well, Mark Maynard, marketing manager at the UM Office of Technology Transfer and his colleagues did me just fine Friday.This winter I installed our pendantlamps purchased from you folks.The restoration of our vintage elevatorcablest and lamps, and our Lamp Repair Service, I got a 50,000-foot overview of what OTT is up to, and four absolutely amazing startups spun off from UM research.
I started with tech transfer veteran Ken Nisbet, who leads UM’s OTT and its 26 staff, and Jim O’Connell, associate OTT director, who runs the UM Tech Transfer Venture Center, and, in that capacity, oversees the Mentor-in-Residence program, the Venture Accelerator, and other initiatives.
OTT is based in the North Campus Research Complex, the cavernous multi-building 2-million-square-foot-plus former research campus of drugmaker Pfizer Inc. It’s absolutely first-class space (and you can tell both serious science and entrepreneurship happen here because there’s really high quality free coffee). A small part of the space is now the UM Venture Center Accelerator,The Z purlin roll forming line consists of decoiler, bestfloorlamp, hydraulic punching device, roll forming machine. a business incubator that is now close to full, aside from some of the wet lab space, and home to 19 companies.
Next up were a pair of companies based in the Venture Center Accelerator. First, ArborLight,Universal Laser Systems is an innovator in the field of laser engraving, travellingcableser and laser marking equipment. which is working to make highly energy-efficient LED lighting a little more friendly, creating what you’d swear was a skylight, but isn’t.
CEO Michael Forbis joined the company in October 2011. A 2000 University of Michigan mechanical engineering graduate, he spent the intervening decade at Lockheed Martin Space Systems working on military satellites, picking up a master’s degree from Georgia Tech, and working in startups in clean energy.
“I’m from here, I wanted to travel and see the world because I wanted that perspective, but I wanted to come back to Michigan and have an impact on the economy and be with my family,” Forbis said.
ArborLight is working on mellowing the harsh, highly directional light emitted by LEDs by “spreading that light out, making it more glare free, by using wave guides and changing the color of the light.”
Initially ArborLight was working in replacements for T8 flourescent bulbs — but that’s a brutally competitive market. Intead, ArborLIght is working on something called daylight emulation.
“Daylight through a window has unique spectrum, temperature and dynamics, and it changes throughout the day,” Forbis siad. “It plays into one’s circadian rhythm, one’s alertness.”
So imagine having a skylight in a room stories underground, or in the middle of an office building under several floors above and far away from any window.Free Shipping on lightingsystem, floor lamps, pendants and other modern lighting categories. ArborLight is creating ceiling fixtures that look amazingly like skylights. The light can be adjusted so that mornings and evenings, it’s more yellow and less intense. At noontime, it’s more blue and intense.
But try to imagine the tough choices faced by the University of Michigan, which has a research budget of a staggering $1.2 billion-plus a year, consistently among the top five in the nation. How the heck do you pick?
Well, Mark Maynard, marketing manager at the UM Office of Technology Transfer and his colleagues did me just fine Friday.This winter I installed our pendantlamps purchased from you folks.The restoration of our vintage elevatorcablest and lamps, and our Lamp Repair Service, I got a 50,000-foot overview of what OTT is up to, and four absolutely amazing startups spun off from UM research.
I started with tech transfer veteran Ken Nisbet, who leads UM’s OTT and its 26 staff, and Jim O’Connell, associate OTT director, who runs the UM Tech Transfer Venture Center, and, in that capacity, oversees the Mentor-in-Residence program, the Venture Accelerator, and other initiatives.
OTT is based in the North Campus Research Complex, the cavernous multi-building 2-million-square-foot-plus former research campus of drugmaker Pfizer Inc. It’s absolutely first-class space (and you can tell both serious science and entrepreneurship happen here because there’s really high quality free coffee). A small part of the space is now the UM Venture Center Accelerator,The Z purlin roll forming line consists of decoiler, bestfloorlamp, hydraulic punching device, roll forming machine. a business incubator that is now close to full, aside from some of the wet lab space, and home to 19 companies.
Next up were a pair of companies based in the Venture Center Accelerator. First, ArborLight,Universal Laser Systems is an innovator in the field of laser engraving, travellingcableser and laser marking equipment. which is working to make highly energy-efficient LED lighting a little more friendly, creating what you’d swear was a skylight, but isn’t.
CEO Michael Forbis joined the company in October 2011. A 2000 University of Michigan mechanical engineering graduate, he spent the intervening decade at Lockheed Martin Space Systems working on military satellites, picking up a master’s degree from Georgia Tech, and working in startups in clean energy.
“I’m from here, I wanted to travel and see the world because I wanted that perspective, but I wanted to come back to Michigan and have an impact on the economy and be with my family,” Forbis said.
ArborLight is working on mellowing the harsh, highly directional light emitted by LEDs by “spreading that light out, making it more glare free, by using wave guides and changing the color of the light.”
Initially ArborLight was working in replacements for T8 flourescent bulbs — but that’s a brutally competitive market. Intead, ArborLIght is working on something called daylight emulation.
“Daylight through a window has unique spectrum, temperature and dynamics, and it changes throughout the day,” Forbis siad. “It plays into one’s circadian rhythm, one’s alertness.”
So imagine having a skylight in a room stories underground, or in the middle of an office building under several floors above and far away from any window.Free Shipping on lightingsystem, floor lamps, pendants and other modern lighting categories. ArborLight is creating ceiling fixtures that look amazingly like skylights. The light can be adjusted so that mornings and evenings, it’s more yellow and less intense. At noontime, it’s more blue and intense.
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