Research based in collaboration

Faculty and students come together from across U-M to create a financial system that is safer, fairer, and better harnessed to the real economy.
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SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESSES

Community Tech Workers to assist with Shop Small Saturday

In preparation for Shop Small Saturday, organized by DEGC and Detroit Means Business, the JEI-UMich community tech workers are assisting businesses in getting listed on the shop small map and bingo card.
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Detroit Engagement

U-M awarded grant to support Detroit entrepreneurs in bridging digital divide

An interdisciplinary team from the University of Michigan was awarded $300,000 from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to train local residents and U-M students to provide one-on-one technology support to Detroit entrepreneurs.
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Blue Bag Lunch Talks

Jerry Davis: Taming corporate power in the 21st century

Professor Jerry Davis discusses the need for a new set of tools to understand and tame the new sources of economic power.
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