Just by looking at the numbers, the vast potential of the Indian market should get the attention of every American state that wants to engage in foreign trade. Yer Biotech Blues columnist Michael Rosen recently took a trip to India with an Illinois trade delegation,...
Gov. Jim Doyle has announced the next steps in the state's effort to produce more alternative energy and address climate change. One of the first projects of the new Office of Energy Independence will be to work with the Public Service Commission on a clean...
Project engineer Les Ciciora has been named director of operations for the new Sharon Ethanol plant outside of Whitewater. The plant, which should be oeprational in late 2008, is expected to produce 120 million gallons of ethanol per year and employ 55 full-time people....
Wisconsin has the resources and expertise necessary to become the home of one of the bio-energy research and technology centers now under consideration by the Department of Energy, writes columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still notes that if the state's story...
An ethanol construction project in the village of Necedah is the latest to receive state funding support. Gov. Jim Doyle has announced plans to allocate $200,000 from the Department of Commerce to help develop the plant, which will produce 50 million gallons of ethanol per...
The State of Wisconsin plans to capture 10 percent of the national renewable energy market by 2030, and biodiesel production will be part of the mix. The state has committed $250,000 to the development of a 62,000-square-foot biodiesel plant in Evansville, but investors have stepped...
Attorney David Kettner has decided to leave the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and join the staff of Virent Energy Systems as chief intellectual property counsel. During his career, Kettner has emphasized biotech patent prosecution and intellectual property licensing....
Lucigen Corp. has entered into an agreement that gives it the exclusive, worldwide right to manufacture and sell certain bacterial cells for toxic protein expression. Lucigen, which recently spun off a new company to develop enzymes that increase yields in bioethanol production, sees the cell...
Taking a trip down memory lane, Yer Biotech Blues columnist Michael Rosen explains how a native of New York State began a Midwestern life-science odyssey. During that long, strange trip, the growth of the biotechnology industry here has been nothing short of remarkable, particularly the...
With state budget deliberations about to get into full swing, Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still says it's time for those who care about pushing the state's tech-based economy to get involved. A number of helpful proposals are before the Legislature, but complacency can leave even...