Canadian news site
The Globe and Mail contends that though Detroit is down, it is not out.
Excerpt:
Must Detroit fail? Has it declined too far to ever return to
prosperity? The answer, perhaps, can be found across campus, at a new
engineering research centre, filled with robotics labs and clean rooms,
where researchers are conducting experiments in alternative energy,
nano-science and biotechnology.
This despite savage cuts to university budgets from a straightened state government.
“We have a brilliant faculty who are out there in the market … raising
money for the College of Engineering,” said Ralph Kummler, Dean of
Wayne State's College of Engineering.
It can be found at Tech One, housed in a formerly vacant building where
the Chevrolet Corvette was designed, but which today incubates 98
entrepreneurial startups, including Asterand, which harvests waste
tissues from hospitals and then makes them available for medical and
pharmaceutical research.
It can be found at NextEnergy, a non-profit industry accelerator that
works with businesses to develop commercially viable alternative-energy
products.
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