Few counties in the United States can claim the international diversity of Oakland County’s business community – 900 firms from 37 foreign countries call Oakland County home. County Executive L. Brooks Patterson frequently cites the county’s foreign firms as a critical part of Oakland County’s economic signature.

Did you know that Oakland County and the surrounding region is becoming one of the fastest-growing medical technology areas in the nation?  We are emerging as a global center of innovation in health care, research and development, education and commercialization in the life sciences industry.  This means jobs, lots of jobs, and Oakland County's Medical Main Street inaugural INNO-VENTION Conference is all about fostering the growth of this industry. 

What does it mean to have 20/20 vision? For Pradip Sengupta of IPS Technology Services, it means $20 million by the year 2020! The company that started as a strictly part-time consulting gig while Sengupta had a "cushy" corporate job has now blossomed into a healthy firm offering a number of different IT-related advisory, staffing and training services and exhibits exponential growth from year to year, having just signed their biggest client to date. 

Oakland County is emerging as a global center of innovation in health care, research and development, education and commercialization in the life sciences industry. Our Medical Main Street's inaugural INNO-VENTION Conference, being held October 3-5 at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester, is all about fostering the growth of this industry.