Education

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...

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has launched a study to examine the utility of adult stem cells for the repair of heart damage. The trial involves injecting the patient's own stem cells into areas of the heart with poor blood...

State Senator Ted Kanavas, the author of Invest Wisconsin 2.0, believes Gov. Jim Doyle missed the mark in a recent WTN column on spending for the University of Wisconsin System. In this guest column, Kanavas says the UW System should remove barriers to innovation, embrace...

Misclassifying employees as independent contractors for unemployment insurance tax purposes can lead to an audit of your business, warns Early Stage columnist Joe Boucher. In this case, the business proprietor will have the burden of proof in defending the contractor status of all similarly classified...

Risk management, risk management, risk management. It's become the matra of IT, but not for trivial reasons, according to key presenters during the Fusion 2007 CEO-CIO Symposium. With threats hitting businesses from all directions, and with technology becoming more pervasive and complex, technologists are in...

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...

Has a new Madison business truly found a disruptive new technology for the voice-recognition market? The proprietors believe so, and if they are correct, their voice-recognition technology could save law firms, healthcare facilities, and insurance companies countless hours of transcribing dictations and voice mails....

Gov. Jim Doyle views increased support of the University of Wisconsin System as a key to driving future economic growth. In this Guest Column, he writes that schools in the system, which have taken a back seat to K-12 in terms of state funding support,...

With the United States in the early stages of another major economic transformation, where does Wisconsin rank among the 50 states in the so-called "New Economy?" Although Wisconsin was in the upper half of states in several key categories, it ranked 30th overall in the...

Yet another prominent executive has issued a wake-up call for Milwaukee to get its educational act together so that its residents can compete in the emerging knowledge economy. This time, notes Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still, it's Northwestern Mutual Life's Ed Zore that is trying...