What kind of people do you work with? What type of organizations do you work for? Columnist James Carlini says the answer to these questions will determine whether you're invested in your company, or ready to bolt. Perhaps it's time, he writes in this latest...
The Madison biotechnology industry has proven that Wisconsinites can get beyond their reluctance to seek federal funding, but now that aggressive posture must be demonstrated by the rest of the state. At the 2006 National SBIR-STTR Conference in Milwaukee, both Wisconsin and Midwestern businesses are...
The Midwest had 11 universities in the top 50 institutions winning NIH funding during 2005, including 20th ranked Wisconsin, according to Yer Biotech Blues columnist Michael Rosen. That's pretty impressive considering that NIH funding has been increasingly hard to come by, and it's a key...
If you leave politics up to the people, what happens? A focus on the bread-and-butter issues that matter to them, writes Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. A co-founder of the We The People/Wisconsin project, in which citizens had a chance to shape the questions put...
A joint U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy grant will enable Madison's Virent Energy Systems to partner with an Arkansas firm to increase production of a renewable chemical. Virent's goal is to provide a profitable market for glycerol, a co-product of the biodiesel...
TomoTherapy Inc. has reached a milestone by selling its 100th Hi-Art System to a veterans medical center in Albany, N.Y. The Stratton VA Medical Center will use the system, which applies a targeted dosage of radiation, to treat veterans with prostate cancer, head and neck...
Wisconsin has many economic assets, but it still may not be able to compete with the more nimble and more moneyed east and west coasts. In this latest installment of WTN's Visions Series, Baird CEO Paul Purcell recommends nixing intra- and inter-state rivalries as he...
A research team led by pediatric hematologist Robert Montgomery has received a five-year, $9.7 million project grant to conduct genetic studies into a hereditary bleeding disorder known as Von Willebrand disease. The grant was issued by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute....
Wisconsin may never be Silicon Valley when it comes to entrepreneurial churn, but it has the capacity to become less risk averse. That was one of several messages to come out of the ninth annual E-Business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies Conference....
When it comes to Internet service, Milwaukee might be fully wireless in 18 months, but in the process could it be missing a golden opportunity to boost economic development in its poorest neighborhoods? According to a Milwaukee community activist, not enough consideration has been given...