UM: Business

USA Today reports on an attempt by Michigan Security Network, a newly formed Michigan nonprofit, to attract homeland security businesses to this state, including companies focused on cybersecurity, border monitoring and bioterrorism. The article quotes Tom Kinnear of UM’s Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, who says jobs in these industries will benefit the state’s software engineers, for example, but not the many laid-off blue-collar workers: “This is the new Michigan, and not a job-getter for the old Michigan. I live in the new Michigan, and quite frankly, it’s already doing quite well.” [Source]