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A Thinkubator for new ideas

Michigan businesses can look forward to having more innovation and creativity, thanks to the opening of a new "Thinkubator". The creativity and innovation facility is officially open at the Ann Arbor "Thinkubator", 2803 Boardwalk, Ann Arbor MI 48104.

The Ann Arbor Thinkubator offers a menu of services, including training, processes, facilitations, tools, coaching, meetings and creative space rentals for meetings an events. These solutions are designed to help participants achieve results in real-world areas, such as product development, change management, marketing, sales, manufacturing, process improvement, team meetings and workspace design.

The "Thinkubator" has been created through a strategic partnership of Stephen Pierce of Innovation Marketers and Gerald Haman of Solution People. Innovation Marketers is a small business that helps big businesses create money-making, novel ideas.

Since 1989, Solution People has helped more than 200,000 people from over 160 Fortune 500 firms in 30-plus countries which include Motorola, Kraft Foods, Cargill, Capital One and The Gillette Company. Combined, over 160 companies have generated more than two million ideas that yielded an ROI of over $2 billion.

Now this experience comes to Michigan via the Ann Arbor Thinkubator.