The best way for us to attract people from other countries to Michigan is to have their friends who live here tell them about the opportunities here. Kauffman Foundation data indicate immigrants started about 16% of new Michigan businesses between 1996 and 2007.

You may have read of the successes of the technology area known as the Medicon Valley between Denmark and Sweden. Well, we have our own such technology valley.Between Detroit and Windsor-Essex alone, we have clusters in life science, clean tech, digital media, blue tech and advanced manufacturing,