Manufacturing

Two Wisconsin economic development organizations are putting on a business plan contest for start-up companies in Northeastern Wisconsin. The Northeast Wisconsin Regional Economic Partnership and the Northeast Wisconsin Chapter of the Wisconsin Innovation Network would like to see a large contingent of entrants by the...

Henry Sanders, Jr., founder and former president of the Madison Area Growth Network, and a former vice chairman of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, is preparing to use his professional relationships to assist start-up bioscience and technology companies in Wisconsin as a new member...

A new government relations venture seeks to provide an additional anchor to companies that occupy space in Wisconsin's emerging technology and life science sectors, and its more mature manufacturing base. The organization, hamilton.gsp, is a collaboration between Wisconsin's own Hamilton Consulting Group and GSP Consulting....

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it's hard to imagine life without Bayh-Dole, the landmark law that fueled technology transfer in university communities across the nation. Still, the law is under attack, even by some academicians, which has compelled former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh, who co-authored...

The Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation, in its first major drive for nationwide visibility, has accepted a contract to assess 255 patents from two major Delaware companies that could spur new products, companies, and intrastate collaboration. There is a strong possibility that CATI will...

National venture investments declined during the third quarter of 2006, but remained above the $6 billion level for the third consecutive quarter, according to a MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data from Thomson Financial. For the first time,...

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...

ENCAP, a soil technology company based in Green Bay, has won the 2006 Governor's Small Business Technology Transfer Award. The company, whose advanced soil technology is designed to create ideal growing conditions for lawn and garden seeds, beat out two Middleton-based companies - Lucigen Corp....

Monica Doss remembers the early 1980s very well. With $35,000 in the bank and virtually no venture investment in North Carolina, the Council for Economic Development began to reshape the entrepreneurial culture of an entire state, one that now is represented by the famed Research...

Johnson Controls, Inc., has struck a preliminary deal to buy the automotive battery business of Fiamm, a global automotive components manufacturer. If approved, the deal will allow Johnson Controls to expand its automotive aftermarket presence in fast-growing Eastern European nations....