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What happens too often is the first generation isn’t optimized for cost reduction, durability, reliability, environment, shipping, transportation, customer use, and serviceability.” Creating a physical prototype product often sets entrepreneurs in a loop of enhancing design, which can drain these companies of funds and cause investors and early customers to lose interest. He continues that “the most important thing is trying to create as lean of a design as early on as possible. “It helps to have a product that has intellectual property and patents to protect against knock-off products and competition,” says Radomski. That’s where the LTU Collaboratory comes in. However, commercializing these ideas comes with complex challenges that require support from people with experience who can help navigate business plans and product designs. This next generation of innovators is a diverse group of people from different demographics, backgrounds, and stages of life, and some LTU students are even bringing ideas forward! Entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses are thinking of consumer products that make life more convenient by adding intelligence to hardware through sensors, wireless connections, remote functionality, etc. The turnout of the workshop reflected the state of the hardware startup market. Mark Brucki is equipped with experience in entrepreneurial and academic research while Dan Radomski brings a strong background in entrepreneurship, commercialization of hardware technologies, and manufacturing. Two LTU Collaboratory experts led the workshop-exposing attendees to resources, trends, and success stories. The workshop was designed to review requirements and answer questions about the competition, as well as provide insight on the hardware startup community and what it takes to achieve success. To prepare local businesses for the upcoming competition, they hosted a workshop on August 7. The LTU Collaboratory helps small manufacturers and hardware entrepreneurs scale-up for success as part of the Southfield Centrepolis SmartZone to foster local economic development. The winners of the competition are awarded capital funding and acceleration resources to help bring their business idea to market. Cultivating and sustaining a resilient local food community in North Central Florida through collaboration, economic opportunity, education, and seed stewardship.The Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition gives Michigan entrepreneurs an opportunity to showcase their innovations to investors while connecting with other entrepreneurs and experts in their field. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA) for funding. Thanks to UF Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension for support, and to the U.S. Presented in partnership with UF Innovation Hub, NASDA Foundation, and Union Kitchen. The program immerses women in a community of experts and peers who, together, work through modules that take the uncertainty out of diversifying production. Leverage partnerships to transform research innovation into commercial. We do this by: Use our world-class researchers and state-wide facilities to expand our national leadership in energy research collaborations.
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