SBAM Expert Named to Entrepreneurship Board at MSU

News Release
Date: Apr 9 2007 10:26AM


SBAM Expert Named to Entrepreneurship Board at MSU
(SBAM: Small Business Association of Michigan)


Mark H. Clevey, vice president of SBAM’s Entrepreneurial Development Center and one of the nation’s leading experts on small business entrepreneurialism, has been named to the Board of Directors of the Michigan State University, Center for Innovation and Economic Prosperity (James Madison College).

Operated under the directorships of Dr.’s Brian K Ritchie and Ross B. Emmett, the Center calls for government to release the “entrepreneurial spirits of the private sector” to productively invest in the creation of an entrepreneurial culture in the state. The Center is built on four core strengths: the union of undergraduate teaching and research; a comparative political economy perspective, a focus on technology and innovation; and an applied public policy orientation

Clevey has over 30 years of successful experience in fostering economic development through robust entrepreneurship. As the previous director of Michigan’s “SBIR Support Program,” Clevey won several national and state awards for excellence, innovation and entrepreneurship. Of particular note was the “Tibbetts Award” for hosting the first conference in the nation (“Winners Conference”) focused on economic development through the robust commercialization of federally funded research by small business entrepreneurs in collaboration with Michigan universities and colleges. Clevey has also served as an SBIR/STTR Phase II Commercialization Plan reviewer for the National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy and a Business Plan Reviewer for the NIST Advanced Technology Program.