MSU Technologies' new 6,500 square foot space in the same building as the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center (TIC) should be finished by the end of the year.
MSU Technologies works with MSU researchers and inventors to commercialize technologies. MSU Business-CONNECT, a new MSU group, is also moving in with MSU Technologies.
“Our primary mission is to be the visible front door for anyone in business to interact with the university,” says Charles Hasemann, executive director of MSU Business-CONNECT.
Hasemann and his MSU Business-CONNECT team want to make it easy for businesses to connect to the university and its intellectual capital.
“We want to get deals done at the speed of business,” he says. “We’re being proactive about looking at our faculty, actually going out and soliciting collaborations.”
Last fall, MSU Technologies, which is currently located on the fringe of the MSU campus at 3900 Collins Rd., was asked to look for a new space. The TIC was a natural fit as it fosters innovative enterprises, many of which have been started by MSU faculty and graduates.
“Ideally, we needed to be on campus because we wanted to be near faculty and inventors,” says Mike Poterala, assistant vice president and executive director of MSU Technologies. “This was the next best thing.”
Poterala says he’s thrilled to be a part of East Lansing’s growing business and technology hub.
“We’re really excited to be next to the TIC, where there’s a real energy,” Poterala says.
The MSU Technologies interior design will not be quite as industrial in style as the TIC, but it will be right next to the TIC and Enliven Software.
Source: Mike Poterala, MSU Technologies
Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains and can be reached here.
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