Wisconsin lies in the heart of the “I-Q Corridor,” a region that boasts Chicago and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul as its economic bookends, with a well-stocked shelf of technology development assets between....
Schools, tech transfer and government cited as major advantages MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s biotechnology community is once again in the limelight thanks to feature appearing in the June issue of Modern Drug Discovery. The article examines Wisconsin’s growing biotech clusters in Madison...
You may know about Wisconsin’s outdoors attractions: It is home to four seasons, 15,000 lakes, 5.7 million square miles of parks, trails and wilderness areas, 1,017 miles of Great Lakes shoreline, and 435 golf courses. You may even know a bit about Wisconsin’s cultural heritage:...
Small Times editor discusses nanotech trends at conference MADISON – Speaking at the Bionanotechnology conference last week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a man with a long view of the science and industry behind making really small stuff said Wisconsin is bursting...
SAN FRANCISCO – Biotechnology is high-stakes, high-payoff business for many stakeholders looking to grow companies in their communities. It is also an industry that faces scrutiny from the government and political distracters. The Wisconsin delegation at the BIO 2004 Conference was among scores of regions...
SAN FRANCISCO – Wisconsin’s consummate cheerleader, former governor and current Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, was the featured lunch keynote speaker Monday at the BIO 2004 Conference, talking place this week in San Francisco. Thompson took the podium after San Francisco’s new...
The prophesied “hydrogen economy” has been a little slow in coming, perhaps because hydrogen is hard to produce and harder to store in a non-volatile way. Virent, a Madison-based startup, may have the technology to solve both problems at once....
SAN FRANCISCO – Following on the heals of national press exposure in Forbes magazine and other industry publications that rave about Wisconsin’s growing biotech industry, one would expect the local industry and state would package all these strong indicators of a booming industry, rally the...
The Wisconsin Technology Council has published the first-ever magazine about Wisconsin’s life sciences industry. The 24-page publication highlights the state’s research base, technology-transfer process, company creation, quality of life, key contacts and the “I-Q Corridor” that joins Chicago, Wisconsin and Minneapolis-St. Paul. The Wisconsin Technology Network...
MADISON – Wisconsin’s technology industry is often compared unfavorably to the tech-based economy in Minnesota, a state with more venture capital investments, more college graduates and a long history of spinning out entrepreneurial companies. For the most part, our Minnesota envy is justified – but...