Stratatech Corp., a Madison-based regenerative medicine company, has been awarded a $975,000 “fast-track” SBIR grant from the National Institute on Aging. The grant will allow Stratatech to accelerate its development of wound-care products....
Quintessence Biosciences will receive two Phase I small business innovation research grants totaling more than $280,000 for the continued development of cancer-fighting drugs. The Madison biotechnology company, which is preparing its lead drug candidate, will use the grants to develop second generation anti-cancer products....
For those who wonder if all this new scientific collaboration is really beneficial, the recent stem cell discovery should provide ample proof, according to columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still notes that collaboration has born fruit with NimbleGen's laboratory and production...
Not every American company has come down with “green fever,” but those who have stand to reap strong business and public relations benefits. Madison's CDW Berbee is building a new data center with more than twice the power and density of its existing data centers,...
Can websites, like magazine covers and book jackets, be protected by the trade-dress branch of trademark law, which refers to image and appearance? While trade-dress law is well established, attorney John Zabriskie explains that business owners and their legal counsel are just beginning to explore...
The global market for stem-cell therapies, diagnostics, and other products could top $10 billion by 2016, which ...
Does anyone believe the major presidential candidates could wax eloquently on high-speed broadband without a lot of coaching from their handlers? Columnist James Carlini doubts it very much, yet he noted that they may want to get up to speed and embrace this issue and...
EDS futurist Jeff Wacker, the keynote speaker at last week's Wisconsin Early-Stage Symposium, thinks he knows how companies will deal with projected information technology labor shortages. This is his boldest prediction, and it's packaged in this second part of a WTN Visions interview along with...
Tom Koulopoulos didn't have to stay home to have the customer service experience from heck; no, Tom had to go around the world (to South Korea) for this episode involving his cell phone. In this edtion of the Innovation Zone, he finds common ground...
Sonic Foundry's annual revenues totaled $16.7 million, or 33 percent year-over-year growth, but the company also reported a loss of loss of $6.4 million or $0.18 per share in fiscal 2007. The company, which manufactures the MediaSite communications tool, continues to sell mostly to educational...