Original Source: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20100901/FREE/100909976#

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World’s largest business plan competition will offer more than $1 million in cash awards for the best and brightest new business concepts

DETROIT, AUGUST 24, 2010 – The Business Accelerator Network for Southeast Michigan, a new region-wide network for building and retaining new business in southeast Michigan, today announces the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, an international business plan competition designed to highlight Michigan as a robust and vibrant venue for innovation and business opportunity.

Original Source: http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2010/08/opinion_maker_faire_shows_mich.html

Anyone who has a sinking feeling Americans have lost their knack for making things and are now only consumers of cheap imported goods needed to stroll the grounds of the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit recently to put his or her mind at ease.