At a glance
| Booth | S7330 |
| Country | US |
| Website | www.michiganbusiness.org/industries/semiconductor |
Company profile
MEDC (Michigan Economic Development Corporation) advances prosperity for Michiganders through investments in people, places, and projects, using economic-development support that spans businesses, communities, innovation, workforce, and place-based growth. For small businesses, MEDC provides resources that range from startup capital to growth funding and combines those resources with expert guidance, flexible financing, and hands-on assistance tailored to business goals for growth and scale. For communities, MEDC supports efforts to strengthen places so they can attract talent and drive growth, and it provides funding and expertise for downtown revitalization, mixed-use development, and destination creation where people can live, work, and thrive. For innovation, MEDC helps move breakthrough ideas toward market-ready solutions through R&D funding, commercialization support, and strategic partnerships, with stated technology areas ranging from space tech to advanced energy. The organization's supported areas also include Michigan communities, workforce, quality of life, businesses, mainstreets, preservation, agriculture, space tech, housing, talent, and manufacturing. MEDC's broader economic-development scope covers site selection and business support in Michigan, foreign direct investment, the Michigan Strategic Fund, community development, entrepreneurial opportunity, and the Office of Future Mobility.
Exhibits
MEDC (Michigan Economic Development Corporation) uses SEMICON Taiwan to highlight Michigan's Semiconductor Ecosystem under the message MEDC is Here to Help. For semiconductor and other businesses considering Michigan, the organization can connect business growth with site selection and business support in the state. Its business-support toolkit includes startup capital, growth funding, expert guidance, flexible financing, and hands-on assistance, so the support can address both early-stage formation and later scaling needs. MEDC also covers foreign direct investment and the Michigan Strategic Fund, linking company investment decisions with state-level economic-development mechanisms. Innovation-oriented companies can access R&D funding, commercialization support, and strategic partnerships intended to accelerate the path from concept to capital and from a technical idea to a market-ready solution. The same organization supports workforce, talent, manufacturing, housing, communities, mainstreets, preservation, and quality-of-life initiatives, giving semiconductor ecosystem development a wider place and workforce context rather than only a factory-site context. MEDC's community-development work includes funding and expertise for revitalizing downtowns, developing mixed-use spaces, and creating destinations intended to attract talent and support economic growth. The Office of Future Mobility and entrepreneurial-opportunity programs are also within MEDC's stated scope, adding mobility and entrepreneurship to the support areas available through the organization.
Capabilities and products
- startup-to-growth business funding resources
- flexible financing and hands-on business assistance
- R&D funding and commercialization support
- site selection and business support in Michigan
- foreign direct investment support