The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will ask the state for a total of $20 million over the next two budget cycles to drive its research agenda, according to a published report. The university, which is attempting to transfer more of its research into the regional economy,...
If nothing else, give the State of Wisconsin Investment Board credit for good timing. The $87-billion pension fund, one of the nation’s largest, announced Monday it will invest $25 million in a venture capital fund managed by Baird Venture Partners and another $15 million in...
It's hard enough for a medium-sized city such as Madison or a recovering "Rust Belt" icon such as Milwaukee to grow and maintain a tech-based economy, so imagine what it's like in parts of Wisconsin where the closest thing to a biotech company is an...
Madison, Wis. — The University Research Park is expanding on Madison's east side, into a 6,000 square feet of a large industrial building that will be renovated and made available for startup companies sometime next year....
We've been fortunate lately. Despite the various indicators of a slowing economy, one thing that has not seen a downturn is the number of investments made by angels and angel groups here in the Midwest....
Appleton, Wis. - Fabrication Laboratories, or Fab Labs, are an exercise in global technology sharing spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Wisconsin technical college is putting an entrepreneurial spin on them. Dozens of inventors are using the lab and taking advantage...
Years of hard work and coordination at the public and private level is finally paying off for Wisconsin's entrepreneurial and investment communities, which are providing much-needed momentum in a state economy that has felt its share of pain....
A generation ago, then-Gov. Lee Dreyfus predicted clean water would become a global commodity — and even suggested Wisconsin could become the "blue-eyed Arabs" of the world's emerging scramble for fresh water. The potential for state economic growth is enormous....
Menomonie, Wis.—Defending his focus on science to propel the state's economy, Governor Jim Doyle said Wisconsin is at crossroads not unlike the one that transformed the state into America's Dairyland 100 years ago....
Menomonie, Wis. —The increasingly sophisticated science and technology being developed at Wisconsin's smaller universities has been somewhat bottled up, but the state and the UW System are working to apply more of it to business opportunities....