At 42, Winslow Sargeant is winding up in Madison. He's becoming a partner with Venture Investors after succeeding as an entrepreneur and former Small Business Innovation Research program manager. But coming from race-torn Dorchester, Mass., it wasn't what most other kids did. ...
Wisconsin cities are improving as places to grow new businesses, according to a national magazine....
Wisconsin's research and development funding has exceeded expectations, reaching $3.6 billion in 2002, according to a new report. The state had set a target of $3.3 billion by 2005. ...
A Massachusetts company, working with University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and others, says it has discovered a way to generate embryonic stem cell lines without interfering with the developmental potential of the embryos....
Wisconsin cannot solely rely on its top research rankings if it plans to capitalize on its biotech expertise, a national think tank's regional economics director told state business, academic and community representatives at a recent conference....
In our world of Midwest life sciences, one of the most difficult issues has been achieving funding to successfully propel companies along a pathway to commercial launch of products and some kind of positive cash flow....
Profits for General Electric Co.'s GE Healthcare division rose 17 percent for the third quarter behind an 8 percent growth in total orders....
Wisconsin is 27th in the nation in its friendliness to small business and entrepreneurs, according to the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, which released its 10th annual rankings last week. ...
Republicans and Democrats alike are working to warm Wisconsin's tax climate for innovative companies. Indeed, recent surveys indicate the business tax climate in Wisconsin is improving and may even be among the nation's top third. While a great deal of work remains to be done,...
At the Olympia Resort on Thursday, several dozen representatives of business, civic, academic and arts groups met Thursday to brainstorm strategies for making Wisconsin a creative, cool place, a place where industries want to locate and where college students want to work....