The Innovation Gap is more than just a sad line of promising ideas snuffed out in an arduous journey from concept to market. In this edition of MedTech Futures, columnist Ogan Gurel laments the surmountable but rarely surmounted obstacles that still block the path of...
Management teams charged with building succession plans would be well advised to consider the company's chief information officer as someone that can be groomed for upper management, according to Steve Matheys, former CIO for Schneider National. Matheys, now the transportation firm's top marketing executive, said...
Beyond equity financing, early-stage technology and biotechnology businesses may still have a need for other forms of financing. In this 11th edition of Early Stage, Madison attorney Joe Boucher begins to run through the various business borrowing options....
Researchers studying the pattern of financing for women-owned businesses in the venture capital industry, where women receive only a small fraction of overall investment dollars, have found a similar pattern in the angel capital market. Their findings are consistent with other studies and the anecdotal...
Knowing that current malware solutions aren't going to be self-sustaining, professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are involved in a collaboration to help the good guys stay one step ahead in the computer virus Cold War. They have developed new software to combat the “on-the-fly"...
MailFoundry, a Green Bay based anti-spam solution provider, has launched an anti spam appliance that can handle more than 100,000 users and 20 million e-mails per day. The filter is designed to be scalable and combat increasing threats from spam, phishing attacks, and viruses....
Rockwell Automation, a provider of industrial automation control and information solutions, has reached an agreement to acquire Industrial Control Services Group Ltd., a British industrial controls company, for $218 million. The British firm is considered an important strategic fit for Rockwell's process-control and safety-solutions businesses....
With its reach extending farther across the globe, TomoTherapy is opening an international Technical Training Center in Madison. The center will be used to train employees to maintain Hi-Art radiation therapy systems that are sold around the world....
Women got the right to vote in 1920, the right to secure business credit in their own name in 1974, and the determination to develop their businesses into $1 million enterprises with the onset of Make Mine A Million. During the program's recent Wisconsin conference,...
A recent Internal Revenue Service ruling is likely to accelerate the national pace of electronic medical record and healthcare IT adoption at non-profit and not-for-profit facilities. Wisconsin non profits, however, have been moving ahead with EMR and healthcare IT adoption despite national uncertainly about the...