An article gives an overview of Monday's panel discussion between the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and the University Research Corridor. The presidents of Michigan's three biggest research universities and the MEDC lauded themselves for the schools' research-based economic development - but said they must do more of it, more quickly, and learn to do more with less state money. The presidents said the schools' huge research budgets - an aggregate $1.6 billion in 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available - support hundreds of direct jobs in faculty, researchers and assistants, and indirect jobs, in construction, for instance. The challenge is to scale up that effort even further - in the face of dwindling state support. WSU President Allan Gilmour said that Wayne State's state appropriation is being cut back to its 1989 level - when that supported two-thirds of the cost of a Wayne State education. Today that supports only one-third of that cost. An event photo gallery and audio clips are included. ht