Author: WTN News

The United States has fallen behind other nations in innovation, but has the capacity to regain its lead, federal chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra said Tuesday. "We have failed to translate the power and potential in our nation's capacity to compete in a more globally competitive...

Members of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and the House Small Business, and Science and Technology Committees are meeting, yet again, to see if this time they can resolve the impasse of two very different SBIR reauthorization bills, (Senate S.1233 and House H.R.2965)....

A small Neenah biotechnology firm is venturing into food enhancement and anti-bacterial products based on its head's mainstay research into contemporary applications drawn from ancient medicinal remedies. Ayurvedic-Life International has made promising strides into therapies for insulin-deficient Type 2 diabetes sufferers, but still is far...

Wisconsin companies raised $6.5 million of venture capital funding in the first half of the year - a falloff of 81% from a year earlier, and the state's slowest start since 2005. The weak start mirrored a decline nationally. Venture capitalists invested $6.9 billion during the first half...

A group of computer scientists at the University of Washington has developed a way to make electronic messages “self destruct” after a certain period of time, like messages in sand lost to the surf. The researchers said they think the new software, called Vanish, which...

Biotechnology and medical device start-ups typically take many years and a lot of money to get to market. But Chrysalis Ventures, a venture capital firm in Louisville, Ky., takes a different approach to health care investments. Instead of backing the discovery of new drugs or the...