Welcome to the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center
The Southwest Michigan Innovation Center is a 69,000 square-foot business incubator/accelerator which provides a comprehensive range of support and assistance to nurture the formation, survival, and growth of innovative, entrepreneurial, life science businesses. The Innovation Center opened its doors in 2003. Amenities of the Innovation Center include state of the art wet lab space, newly constructed executive office space, a subsidized, progressive rental structure, business services ... Learn More
We've Got The Tradition
The West Michigan region has influenced the life science industry for the past 125 years. Our rich history of life science entrepreneurialism dates back to the founding of the Upjohn Company in 1886 and the vibrancy of the Stryker Corporation since 1941 to the Innovation Center’s successful ... Read More »
We've Got The Success
West Michigan’s life science expertise is the foundation for the extraordinary success of the 31 client companies who have graduated from or are currently housed in the Innovation Center. Read More »
We've Got The Talent
Many of the companies in the region are owned and operated by scientific entrepreneurs who have decades of global drug discovery and development experience. We can help you grow your business because we work together, utilizing our strengths to optimize your results. Imagine the possibilities of working near other world-class scientists who have made the decision to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams in a bureaucracy-free zone. Read More »
We've Got The Building
Take a tour of our state of the art 58,000 square foot wet lab facility and 11,000 sqaure foot office expansion. Read More »
We've Got The Money
Southwest Michigan is home to the Southwest Michigan Life Science Fund, a $50 million dollar fund that invests primarily in early stage life science companies. Read More »
Client Company Employees at SMIC: 88
Client Company Total Employees: 126
Client Company Total Annual Payrolls: $6,080,447.00
Client Companies at SMIC: 15
Companies Served Since: 31
Graduate Startup Companies from SMIC: 5
Kalamazoo-based biopharmaceutical company secures funding from West Michigan investors, MEDC
ProNAi Therapeutics Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical company based in Kalamazoo, has secured financing to advance Phase I clinical studies of a cancer drug ... Read More »
Western Michigan University draws high interest in search for founding medical school dean
By Mark Sanchez Western Michigan University has a far larger field of candidates than anticipated to sift through for founding dean of its planned medical school ... Read More »
NanoVir is a drug research company committed to the discovery of treatments for human papillomavirus or HPV using novel chemical and biological approaches to develop DNA-targeted therapies ... Learn More »
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