WHO WE ARE
Innovation Emporium Inc. is a resource hub that selectively organizes a network of specialized collaborators with a very broad array of skills, capabilities, knowledge and experience. An advisory group configures this talent pool into a team that is tuned to the specific needs of individual and sector clients.
Innovation Emporium Inc. was founded in 2004 by people with decades of experience in high-technology, knowledge business ownership and management, as well as university research administration, including technology development, incubation and acceleration of technology entrepreneurs.
Innovation Emporium Inc. is a place for people who are passionate about innovation and strive to advance technologies and craft solutions that reflect their clients’ aspirations as much as their own creativity.
WHAT WE DO
Innovation Emporium Inc., conceives, creates, and implements innovative services, solutions and technologies for individual clients and client sectors, focused on knowledge management, project management, large-scale event development and management, data management strategies and tools, and business development services. Contact an IEI representative to discuss whether we can advance your needs in any of these areas.
Innovation Emporium Inc. specializes in extracting maximum power and added value from cross-sector connectivity, with particular emphasis on enabling, building and enhancing partnerships, collaborations and networks that involve institutions of higher education.
Innovation Emporium Inc. embraces change—transformational change promoted by disruptive technologies and incremental change supported by state-of-the-art traditional technologies—but recognizes the need to manage change and risk.
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PRESS RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
- October, 2009 – Innovation Emporium Inc. is promoting participation in a Youth Engineering and Science Initiative during 2009-10. This activity will encourage media participation in targeted messages to pre-college youth to heighten interest in careers in science and technology. This initiative grew out of a partnership between Michigan Technological University and Innovation Emporium, Inc. (IEI) from the development and execution of an annual YES! Expo Event that started in 2004; after the first year, this event has been held at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The YES! Expo grew from a modest event that attracted 5,000 participants in 2004 to a premier exposition attracting more than 15,000 students and educators. The 2008 YES! Expo multi-media show, held twice during the event, featured NASA astronaut, Greg Johnson, and Cindy Bir, Biomedical Engineer from Wayne State University and collaborator on the Emmy Award winning Fox Sport Science show. For inquiries and additional information, contact IEI.
- November, 2008 – Michigan Technological University and Innovation Emporium Inc. collaborated on the YES! Expo 2008 that was held on November 6, 2008 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. Over fifteen thousand middle school and high school students participated in this event, bringing the total number of youth participants served to 60,000 since the event’s inception. Innovation Emporium, Inc., has partnered with Michigan Technological University on an annual YES! Expo since 2004. Contributors to the YES! Expo multi-media show, conducted twice during each event, have included the following guests: Rob Coleman, responsible for the animation in Star Wars I, II and III; John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor, Industrial Light and Magic; Steven Squyres, Project Director of the NASA Mars Rover Mission; Bill Nye the Science Guy; Greg Johnson, NASA Astronaut; and Cindy Bir, Biomedical Engineer from Wayne State University and collaborator on the Emmy Award winning Fox Sport Science show.
- September, 2008 – Innovation Emporium, Inc. partnered on the execution of a series of opening events for the new North Terminal at Detroit Metro Airport, including a VIP gala for 1,000 guests, an Open House for 10,000 visitors, and opening day festivities involving the first flights into the terminal. IEI participation included overall project management, budget oversight, vendor selection, fundraising, Web and e-commerce oversight, event coordination, and off-site parking and transportation services development. Partners on the project with IEI included DB&A, Corporate Optics, and Doris Biscoe Communications.
- March, 2007 – Innovation Emporium Inc. participated in the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association of University Technology Managers with a presentation focused on building and maintaining regional collaborations for technical asset knowledge management. IEI is targeted to participate in this Annual Meeting again in 2010.
- July, 2006 – Innovation Emporium Inc. launched a Web site, MichiganLink, the technological base for a technology asset brokerage serving U-TEAMED, a consortium of Michigan Public Universities and other service providers. Initial assets were entered from Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, Oakland University, and Michigan Technological University. The asset base will be expanded to include additional universities in the Fall of 2009.
- November, 2005 – Innovation Emporium Inc. announced availability of web-based tools and protocols for managing university technology assets as one element in a suite of services and technologies in development for knowledge management and university technology transfer.
- October, 2005 – Girl Scouts of Metro Detroit, now Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan, partnered with Innovation Emporium, Inc. to produce a hands-on exhibit with demonstrations of scientific and engineering principles. The goal was development of an experiential component that would motivate interest in science, mathematics, engineering and technology careers, especially among teenage girls. This exhibit was designed, serviced, and updated annually at the YES! Expo from 2005-2008.
- September, 2005 – Innovation Emporium Inc. partnered on a proposal to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for a project entitled, U-TEAMED. Participants included lead institution, Michigan Technological University, IEI, and three mid-size regional research universities: Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, and Oakland University, as well as other service providers. The grant was approved for this three-year economic development initiative with support for the consortium of Michigan public universities and service providers, and for promotion of research and technology transfer activities in the state of Michigan.
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