University Research Corridor

University Research Corridor logo.

The University Research Corridor (URC) is an alliance between Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Michigan Technological University to transform, strengthen, and diversify the state of Michigan's economy. The three institutions of the URC together draw $1.878 billion in federal academic research dollars to Michigan, 94 percent of the total coming into the state.[1]

Over the past five years, URC universities have announced an average of one new invention every day, and collectively these discoveries have led to more than 500 license agreements for new technologies and systems. Detroit News columnist Dan Howes once wrote that the three universities together offer “the closest thing Michigan has to Silicon Valley—an intellectual powerhouse.”[2]

The URC had 137,583 students enrolled in the fall of 2010. The students at the URC universities are drawn from throughout Michigan and around the world. Students from the state of Michigan accounted for 75% of total enrollment in the fall of 2009, while 15% came from elsewhere in the U.S. and the remaining 10% came from other countries.[3]

## Location

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The URC institutions are based in the southeast/south-central area of the Michigan's lower peninsula and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Wayne State University is located in the heart of the state's largest city — Detroit — in the Midtown Cultural Center. Michigan State University is located four miles east of the Michigan State Capitol, in East Lansing. The third university in the URC — the University of Michigan — is located 40 miles west of Detroit in Ann Arbor. Michigan Technological University is located in Houghton, Michigan.

## Transportation

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The corridor is served by the three major Interstate Highways in Southeastern Michigan—I-75, I-94, and I-96. Further enabling the close collaboration between these institutions, each school is under a two-hour drive of its URC peers.

The main airport of the region—among the top 20 largest airports in the world—is the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW).[4] Both Wayne State University and The University of Michigan are roughly a half-hour drive from the Romulus-based airport. However, when traveling to East Lansing, the Capital Region International Airport is the most convenient—just a 20-minute commute to the MSU campus.

Travel Time via DTW  Ann Arbor (UMich)  | 27 minutes

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Detroit (Wayne State)  | 23 minutes
East Lansing (Michigan State)  | 1.3 hours

## Peer comparison

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A 2014 Economic Impact Report by Anderson Economic Group ranked the URC second in the Innovation Power Ranking when compared to seven other major university research clusters in six states, including well-known hubs such as North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, California's Innovation Hubs and Massachusetts’ Route 128 Corridor. The report also found that URC universities conferred 32,483 graduate and undergraduate degrees in 2012, more than any of the university innovation clusters the URC has benchmarked itself against since 2007. The URC also granted the highest number of medical degrees and second-highest number of high-demand degrees overall, saw its research and development spending rise to nearly $2.1 billion and continued to commercialize its research through patents and start-up companies.[5]

## Ongoing emphasis

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Economic Stimulus

* An economic report detailing the collective successes of the URC universities as well as a metric comparison to their peer clusters is released annually each winter.

## Notes

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* Michigan portal

1. ^ "About | University Research Corridor".
2. ^ "About | University Research Corridor".
3. ^ "About | University Research Corridor".
4. ^ Passenger Traffic 2006 FINAL from Airports Council International
5. ^ "Empowering Michigan: Seventh Annual Economic Impact Report of Michigan's University Research Corridor | University Research Corridor". Archived from the original on 2014-11-12. Retrieved 2014-11-12.

## External links

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* URC
* Michigan State University
* Wayne State University
* University of Michigan
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Michigan State University

Located in: East Lansing, Michigan

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* Founded: 1855
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University of Michigan

Located in: Ann Arbor, Michigan

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* Ann Arbor (Main)
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* Detroit

* Founded: 1817
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Wayne State University

Academics|

* College of Engineering
* College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts
* Law School
* College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
* School of Medicine
* School of Social Work
* Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Athletics|

* Football
* Ice hockey (defunct)
* women's
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Campus|

* Wayne State University Buildings
* Hilberry Theatre
* Old Main
* Tom Adams Field
* Bonstelle Theatre
* Maccabees Building
* Metropolitan Center for High Technology
* McGregor Memorial Conference Center
* Walter P. Reuther Library

Media|

* The South End
* WDET

People|

* List of Wayne State University people

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Michigan Technological University

Campus|

* Campus Buildings
* Sherman Field
* MacInnes Student Ice Arena
* Memorial Union Building
* Mont Ripley
* Seaman Mineral Museum

Athletics|

* Blizzard T. Husky
* Great Lakes Invitational
* Men's ice hockey

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* WMTU-FM

Other|

* Alberta, Michigan
* Michigan Tech Research Institute
* Winter Carnival
* American Center for Mobility

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