In its fifth year, the Wisconsin Inno Fire Awards honors individuals, companies and organizations across the state that are setting the technology ecosystem ablaze....
New data released in the WEDC’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Report for 2021 shows the millions of dollars being invested in Wisconsin businesses are having a measurable impact....
“It is not obvious that replacing ordinary windows with ones that improve the thermal performance and adds PV generation to a building in New York City can add as much benefit as doing so in sunny Tucson, but that is exactly what we found,” Vincent...
In late 2019, staff at NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes opened a package filled with radioactive materials. The delivery sparked an ongoing research collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison that’s accelerating the company’s emergence into an increasingly important healthcare market....
About three-quarters of the record $333 billion invested in 2021 wound up in three states – California, New York and Massachusetts. A number of focus for the rest of the United States, however, is where jobs created by venture-backed companies can be found. Nearly two-thirds...
PitchBook's annual university rankings compare schools by tallying up the number of alumni entrepreneurs who have founded venture capital-backed companies. The undergraduate and graduate rankings are powered by PitchBook data and are based on an analysis of more than 144,000 VC-backed founders....
Melissa Skala, an investigator in biomedical imaging and professor of biomedical engineering, has been named the Carol Skornicka Chair at the Morgridge Institute for Research. The chairship honors Carol Skornicka (BS’62, English; MA’64, Education; JD’77), a trustee who served on both the Morgridge and Wisconsin...
FluGen, based on research by UW-Madison scientists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann, is raising money and exploring relationships with large drug companies to conduct larger studies that could lead to approval of its intranasal vaccine within four years, its leader said....
Model organisms are essential for biomedical research and have enabled many important scientific discoveries. The ability to sequence the genomes of these models is a powerful tool to study the genetic factors that impact human health. New research published today in BMC Biology provides a...
Thirty-nine young companies will pitch to potential investors and others throughout the course of the in-person Nov. 9-10 Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium at Madison’s Monona Terrace Convention Center....