A fish tale that is about more than the one that got away
Dr. Carl Clark, the new director of marketing and licensing at the Medical College of Wisconsin, has an intriguing past. His graduate work in fish biochemistry prompted him to start his...
What a difference a week makes. In last week's issue, I noted that while wireless communications were about to get dramatically better, data services for mobile phones were still rather uninspired. For all the hype around mobile data services, we were pretty much wallowing in...
Editor’s note: Richard Thieme’s new book, “Islands in the Clickstream” is a collection of over 100 anecdotes, short stories and byte-sized reflections on the digital world. Released in May, Thieme’s book has been hailed as extremely insightful and powerfully original due...
The Dave Clark Five song “Bits and Pieces” is a good metaphor for the apparently holey (as in Swiss cheese) tapestry of Midwest VC seed and early stage financing efforts to get life science companies off the ground. ...
MADISON – To be truthful, I’ve had my doubts about the business model behind WisconsinEye, the long-awaited public affairs television channel that proposes to be the in-state equivalent of C-SPAN....
Silly me, getting all excited about the DSL line that delivers data at 1.5M bit/sec (and up to 3M bit/sec on a good day) downstream. Foolish of me to be thrilled to get great performance from the fixed broadband wireless that reaches my coastal home....
There’s an old saw around business computing that you should improve processes before you automate them. It is seductive to think that if the business side could just get its act together and tell us clearly what it wants, everything would be fine. And if...
Wisconsin's Case for Combining Efficiency and Renewables into an Energy Portfolio
Energy Efficiency is finally being recognized as an important component to America' energy future. In particular, states like Pennsylvania have begun discussion about including Energy Efficiency into what many states call renewable portfolios and...
MADISON – If you stand on your tiptoes and squint, you can almost read the framed documents hanging in the lobby of UW Madison's new $35.6 million biochemistry building....
Companies tend to have a good grasp on their tangible property. They know their real estate holdings and understand the value of their products. On the other hand, they tend to overlook the value of their intellectual property. Companies may understand that inventions could generally...