LTU's Collaboratory Includes Customers To Cash Program, Plus Entrepreneurial Manufacturing Support

LTU’s Collaboratory Includes Customers To Cash Program, Plus Entrepreneurial Manufacturing Support

DETROIT – Mark Brucki Executive Director of Corporate Community Partnerships At Lawrence Technological University, talks about LTU’s Collaboratory program and its innovative Customers to Cash program designed to serve established companies with new products to launch in new or existing markets; innovators with new technologies to sell; entrepreneurs with fresh business ideas to start up and grow; tinkerers with product ideas and prototypes to test with real customers; and college students with new product ideas to validate with customers.

Every team in the program receives a prototyping stipend and can qualify for additional seed funding. Prizes totaling $10,000 will be awarded to the top teams.

Each team is matched with an industry mentor for individual assistance and can qualify for a year of additional professional mentoring.

To learn more, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2-64-mark-brukey-ltu-colaboratory

By Matt Roush|2017-01-19T16:14:32-05:00January 19th, 2017|M2 TechCast, Podcasts|

About the Author: Matt Roush

Matt Roush is Managing Editor of the University News Bureau and Director of Media Relations at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, and co-host of MITech TV with MITechNews founder and publisher Mike Brennan. Before joining LTU, Roush spent more than 30 years as a reporter and editor covering high tech, business, and local government for media outlets including WWJ Newsradio 950, Crain’s Detroit Business, the Kalamazoo Gazette, and the Traverse City Record-Eagle.