Entrepreneurs

One of Madison's software originals is approaching its 25th anniversary in an age where it's no longer a social stigma for university professors to own their own business. DNASTAR, Inc. has not only proven there is a sustainable market for genomic research tools, it quietly...

"Economic development equals broadband connectivity and broadband connectivity equals jobs" is a long-running mantra of columnist James Carlini. Recent news out of Australia and Virginia offer more proof, he writes in this edition of Carlini's Comments, and any community that hasn't installed the appropriate network...

By early next year, Wisconsin should know if it is on the short list of sites for the coveted National Bio and Agro Defense Facility, which would replace the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center on Long Island, N.Y. In his latest Inside Wisconsin column,...

TrafficCast International, a Madison-based software maker that provides route-specific travel time forecasts in the United States and China, has earned high-profile clients and new investors. The company serves an expanding market of people and professionals that must be precisely right on time....

On December 6, Charlie Hoslet, director of the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations, and Paul Pucci, manger of the WiSys Technology Foundation, will hold court in Wausau to describe how north central Wisconsin businesses can take advantage of the university system's resources....

Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson is one of three partners in a proposed ethanol plant for the Walworth County village of Sharon. An estimated 55 new full-time jobs would be created by the construction of the proposed plant, which would produce between 105 and 120...

Madison, Wis. - CleanTech Partners will receive $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project that will attempt to produce cellulosic ethanol at paper mills by extracting the sugars from wood chips before they are pulped for paper making. Masood Akhtar, president of...

Is your school system still teaching the classic three Rs - rote, repetition, and routine? Chances are, it is, and columnist James Carlini believes that is tantamount to preparing children for the Industrial Age. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he joins the bandwagon of...

A $250 million agreement to develop a revolutionary supercomputer will have a profound impact on the Seattle-based Cray, Inc., but the role of the company's Chippewa Falls location has yet to be determined. Under the agreement with the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,...

Known more for "R" than "D," the Marshfield Clinic could become the next engine of technology transfer under a new agreement with the WiSys Technology Foundation. As Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still writes, the agreement is not only a watershed moment for the clinic, it...