Partner for Impact

Our team collaborates closely with business partners and university teams, faculty, and staff to facilitate industry partnerships. Alongside other university collaborators, we will work with you to understand your goals and identify opportunities and investments. 

- Mike Widen, Director of Recreational Sports

Student Talent and Education

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  • Discover support for your organization's challenges in business, engineering, health sciences, arts, humanities, or social sciences through student project teams across various schools and colleges
  • Strengthen your talent pipeline by offering internships and recruiting both undergraduate and graduate students from a diverse range of programs
  • Reskill or upskill your current workforce with customized professional development and executive education programs offered by the university's comprehensive array of schools and departments

Research and Innovation

  • Accelerate your R&D priorities through collaborative research with U-M's world-class scientists
  • Partner with or invest in early-stage startups emerging from U-M Ventures Startup Incubator
  • Enhance your business's innovation by licensing U-M technologies and intellectual property
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Community Engagement

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  • Support U-M student education by establishing an award or scholarship, or funding a learning opportunity or program
  • Enhance U-M's research and education capabilities by funding professorships, chairs, and facilities
  • Increase awareness of your business by sponsoring events, campus organizations, centers, and institutes