Spartan Innovations will provide university-wide entrepreneurship education, stipends to support student start-up business participation, chief executive mentors-in-residence to help manage start-ups and take MSU technology to market, access to a network of external angel and early-stage investors, and gap funding from the $350m MSU Foundation.
US-based Michigan State University (MSU) has set up Spartan Innovations to help its faculty and students form spin-off companies.
Spartan Innovations will provide university-wide entrepreneurship education, stipends to support student start-up business participation, chief executive mentors-in-residence to help manage start-ups and take MSU technology to market, access to a network of external angel and early-stage investors, and gap funding from the $350m MSU Foundation.
Charley Hasemann, executive director of the MSU Innovation Center, said: "We want to pull together all…
