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Space, Expansion & Equipment
Are you looking for office space, lab space, or both? Do you want to lease or buy? What codes and regulations affect your businesses location? Do you need close proximity to airports, Interstates, or rail?
These are the kinds of questions an Ann Arbor SPARK professional can help you with as you look to locate or expand in the region. They know the region thoroughly and can help you find what your business needs to grow. Our services include:
- Site searches of industrial and office sites and buildings
- Community tours and introductions to business leaders
- A database of employers in the county that is continually updated and expanded
- Access to business, educational and community resources
- Provision of business costs, demographics and other statistical data
- Community and business materials in German and Japanese
- Facilitate requests for lab equipment for start-up Life Science companies
Equipment: The Michigan Innovation Equipment Depot (MIED)
Now there's a great way for start-up life sciences companies to get equipment for their business. Through a unique collaboration, previously used equipment is available to qualified life sciences companies throughout the state.
The Michigan Innovation Equipment Depot (MIED) program was developed by Pfizer Global Research and Development in conjunction with Ann Arbor SPARK, MichBio, and Michigan's SmartZones™. The mission of the MIED program is to provide life science start-up companies throughout Michigan with equipment resources to further their growth.
MIED will provide access to previously used laboratory equipment critical to a company's product research, development and manufacturing. The responsibilities of the organizations will fall along these lines:
- Michigan SmartZones will be responsible for due diligence of the companies and their requests
- MichBio will help evaluate requests to determine best use of equipment for the benefit of Michigan's fast growing life science sectors
- Ann Arbor SPARK will administer the program and be responsible for receiving donated equipment and instruments, providing warehouse facilities, and distributing items to the companies
For more information call 734.761.9317. For details on the procedures, qualifications, and available equipment, the following documents are available:
Equipment: University of Michgian Disposition Office
The Property Disposition Office is responsible for the accountable disposal of University of Michigan property designated as surplus by University departments. Everyone is welcome to shop at Property Disposition. There is generally a variety of items including: computers, copiers, office furniture, dormitory furniture, lab equipment, heavy equipment, pictures, hospital equipment, kitchen supplies and many other items. Click this link to learn more about the process for equipping your start-up in a most economical way.
U-M Chemistry Technical Services
Services are available to assist life science companies in their discovery and development efforts. This is a way to gain local access to technical capabilities (on a short term basis if desired) without having to hire and staff such positions and instrumentation internally. We have skilled expertise in areas including elemental analysis, mass spectrometry, nmr, FTIR, chromatography, glass blowing, computer networking, electronics instrumentation repair, computer interfacing, instrument control, data collection, custom software development, instrument fabrication and machining. Personnel are accustomed to interacting with and providing service to research needs. We could provide repair for equipment available through the Michigan Innovation Equipment Depot, perhaps even before it is lent out. Visit http://www.umich.edu/~techserv/ for more information.
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