MUCI News! --- NEW FUNDING!

MUCI has received additional funding and will continue to support Michigan’s research institutions’ commercialization efforts through 2008. A sizable award from the 21st Century Jobs Fund will create a new Challenge Fund totaling $4.5 million.

Furthermore, the scope of MUCI has been expanded beyond the prior focus on life sciences. The Challenge Fund will now accept proposals for commercialization projects in all four technology sectors supported by the 21st Century Jobs Fund:

• Life Sciences
• Advanced Automotive & Manufacturing
• Alternative Energy
• Homeland Security

What is MUCI? (pronounced "mucky")

MUCI (Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative) is a collaboration designed to complement and enhance the technology transfer at Michigan academic and research institutions by supporting commercialization of Intellectual Property.

• Manage the MUCI Challenge Fund, which provides awards to commercialization projects at member institutions.
• Engage in joint activities to disseminate information in the field of technology transfer
• Facilitate the development of performance indicators related to technology transfer, and mechanisms to report these data

MUCI member institutions are: