Author: WTN News

In the age of dumb and dumber, the United States needs more dynamic leadership in public education if it intends to maintain and build the knowledge-based economy and compete in global markets, asserts columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he laments recent...

The taxpayer's investment in manufacturing assistance continues to pay off in Wisconsin, according to a survey of 136 manufacturers conducted by the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership. WMEP's economic impact in the previous fiscal year is pegged at $137 million in increased sales, cost savings, capital...

Isomark, a Madison biotech founded by seven University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists, has appointed Daniel J. Stewart as its president and chief executive officer. The company has developed a technology to identify specific biomarkers in human breath and enable the early detection of disease....

Hundreds of millions of dollars in information technology failures is apparently enough to turn ideology on its head. In the aftermath of expensive state IT failures, Republicans are recommending more bureaucracy in the form of a State CIO or "technology czar," and ironically some Democrats...

The Midwest has scored some impressive gains in the nanotechnology area, including the second largest (after TomoTherapy) initial public offering in the Midwest and the luring of a star nanotech researcher away from UCLA. Whether or not that holds the promise of whittling away the...

Patent law just took another turn, as the Federal Circuit Court has made it more difficult to prove willful infringement - and apparently, ignorance of the law is an excuse. According to Guest Columnist David De Bruin, an attorney and partner with Michael Best &...

Nanotechnology and other ultra small technologies will be the focus of the recently opened NanoRite Center for Innovation on the campus of Chippewa Valley Technical College. The center, which was developed to support and attract industry to Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley, has officially opened. ...