If you haven’t ever read the opening passages of Alice in Wonderland, you should. Lewis Carroll managed, in 1865, to write a pretty accurate description of most modern IT projects....
Pascal Malassigné, a professor of industrial design at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, has made a shower-and-commode wheelchair that will assist people with spinal damage with their toileting activities....
Milwaukee — ZyStor Theraputics, Inc., has completed part of its $8.5 million financing and bought technology from St. Louis-based Symbiontics, Inc., for treating rare diseases, the company said....
• UW-Madison nanotechnology exhibit to open Thursday
• GE Healthcare lands U.S. government contract
• Chicago-based NovaMed buys controlling interest in Madison surgery center
• PhysioGenix recruits CEO from Massachusetts...
While you have to wait until February to “unwrap” the selected 70 or so companies that will debut at DEMO@15, there are a few gems along the way that just won’t wait until the conference — gems we can unwrap now....
In prior columns, I have addressed the incredible need for early (and I mean very early) stage funding in the Midwest as well as the emergence over the last few years of a number of early stage (including seed) venture groups and angel groups....
The global population is divided into two major groups: open minds in closed societies and closed minds in open societies. Therefore, the marketing and naming of products must address the issues of sexual connotation with extraordinary depth, care and caution....
Madison, Wis. — Having judged last year’s a success, the Wisconsin Technology Council said on Thursday it has opened the second annual Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest for state companies to submit plans....
Madison, Wis. — While the Madison chapter of the World Future Society is dedicated primarily to looking ahead for new social and technological developments, Scott Converse showed them how looking to the past can also be important if they want to see where the next...
Cory Nettles, secretary of Wisconsin’s Department of Commerce, said on Friday that he would resign from his post on December 31 to become a partner in the law firm Quarles & Brady’s Milwaukee office....