The URC aggregates data on the combined economic impact of our three research intensive institutions, benchmarks our university cluster against other peer clusters in the US, and shares how we make an impact in sectors like K-12 education, fighting COVID-19, infrastructure, and more.
The University Research Corridor (URC) is an alliance of Michigan’s three largest academic institutions: Michigan State University, University of Michigan, and Wayne State University. The purpose of this alliance is to…
Michigan’s University Research Corridor (URC) has improved in all competitive categories over the past two years, rising among the nation’s top R&D clusters for producing patents, businesses and graduates with high-tech…
Even as the state and national economies struggled in the recession, Michigan’s University Research Corridor grew in areas critical to the state’s resurgence: Increasing net economic impact to the state, educating more…
The University Research Corridor (URC) is an alliance of Michigan’s three largest academic institutions: Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University. In 2007 the URC universities…
The three universities that make up Michigan’s University Research Corridor (URC) ― Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University ― continue to lead the nation’s university innovation…