Author: WTN News

Madison, Wis. - Gov. Jim Doyle has signed a bill to eliminate red tape for UW researchers. Doyle said the law would help researchers more quickly turn research ideas into potential business opportunities. ...

Madison, Wis. - A California consumer watchdog contends the U.S. Supreme Court's recent eBay ruling weakens the position of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation regarding its stem cell patent, but a WARF spokesman said a recent $1 million jury award says otherwise....

Madison, Wis. - Software piracy remains pervasive in American and foreign businesses, but those who track it are getting better at cracking down, and violators have been paying a stiff price. ...

As scientists and engineers build devices at smaller and smaller scales, grasping the dynamics of how materials behave when they are subjected to electrical signals, sound and other manipulations has proven to be beyond the reach of standard scientific techniques....

Milwaukee, Wis. - By several measures, these should be heady days for American manufacturers. After a recession in which two million manufacturing jobs were lost, the economy is back, manufacturing revenue is back, and new orders are back. Yet there is a sense of unease...

Milwaukee, Wis. - Technology executive and author Tom Kelley calls them devil's advocates. Guy Kawasaki, another notable executive author, calls them bozos. Whatever label or moniker one attaches to them, they are the people in business organizations who act as speed bumps or roadblocks to...

There are many municipalities around the Midwest looking for new ways to increase sales tax revenues. While many are trying traditional and somewhat complicated approaches, municipalities grasping for economic development ideas should simply look to updating their old ordinances....