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Secret Places - Community Tower
July 4, 2010
At 1,423 feet, the Madison Community Tower on the Far West Side is one of the tallest structures in the state.  The tower is home to more than 60 television, radio, government and other types of antennas that are accessed by maintenance crews with a small elevator.

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Forbes: Madison is America's 7th most innovative city
May 25, 2010
Madison ranks seventh among 100 large U.S. cities on a new Forbes.com list of "America's most innovative cities."

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Forbes recognizes UW Research Park
May 10, 2010
Forbes Magazine has named the University Research Park & MGE Innovation Center as one of the top 10 technology innovation and development parks that's changing the world.

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On Campus: Regents approve $4.75 million for University Research Park II
May 7, 2010
The UW Board of Regents on Thursday approved Phase I of University Research Park II at an estimated cost of $4.75 million. Phase I includes a 125-acre portion west of Junction Road between Valley View Road and Mineral Point Road.

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Plan to advance wound care treatment takes top prize in Burrill competition
April 26, 2010
University Research Park donates office space at the newly renovated Metro Innovation Center to winners of the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition. Top prize goes to a company who developed a dressing that would prevent infections, improve healing, and reduce treatment costs for people with burns and chronic wounds.

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Cellular Dynamics research named to MIT Technology Review’s Annual 10 Emerging Technologies List
April 21, 2010
MADISON, Wis., April 21, 2010 – Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) today announced that CDI’s development and commercialization of human cardiomyocytes for drug discovery and toxicity testing, have been named to the MIT Technology Review’s Annual 10 Emerging Technologies List.

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Engineering students win Climate Challenge at UW-Madison
April 21, 2010
The "microformer" is the brainchild of Jonathan Lee, Dan Ludois, and Patricio Mendoza, all graduate students in electrical engineering. Besides the cash prize, they will receive a promotional trip worth $5,000 and an option for a free one-year lease in the University Research Park's new Metro Innovation Center on Madison's east side.

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UW Students Face-off in Expanding Business Plan Competition
April 19, 2010
MADISON, Wis (Apr 19) – New this year, the top placing team in a technology, engineering, medical device or computer science area will be eligible for a bonus award: free office space for one year in the new University Research Park Metro Innovation Center, a prize worth $15,000.

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Six start-ups certified eligible for state tax credits
April 14, 2010
PosiPair, a Metro Innovation Center company that is developing a free online retail and networking service for green businesses, is one of six start-ups that have been certified as "qualified new business ventures" by the state Department of Commerce.  That move makes their investors eligible for tax credits.

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Exact Sciences stock sale nets $17.6 million
April 14, 2010

Exact Sciences is developing a non-invasive DNA test for detecting colon cancer said Wednesday that is has raised $17.6 million in a secondary stock offering.

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State to partner with Minnesota, Manitoba at BIO conference
March 15, 2010
Wisconsin will join Manitoba and Minnesota hosting a reception at the BIO International Convention in Chicago in May, the Wisconsin Technology Council said on Monday.

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Biotechs win aid for business conference
March 9, 2010
Three University Research Park companies are scholarship recipients of $1,100 each to support them in attending the Biotechnology Industry Organization's International Convention to be held May 3-6 in Chicago. They are CellCura, Primorigen, and Quintessence Biosciences.

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University Research Park tenant Mentor donates $16 million facility to Morgridge Institute
March 3, 2010
Mentor Worldwide is donating its new $16 million manufacturing facility at the University Research Park to the Morgridge Institute, a private research organization affiliated with UW-Madison.

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Madison360: Without fighting or fanfare, University Research Park 2 is nearly here
February 25, 2010
While much focus in town has been on filling vacant land at Hilldale Mall or the squabble over the downtown Edgewater Hotel, a big development is coming to the far west side that has sort of floated under the radar -- the addition of a second University Research Park, or, as its backers call it, URP2."

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Decades on, UW-Madison Research Park thrives, plans for growth
February 24, 2010
In the early 1980s, there was doubt.  Today, University Research Park is the setting for more than 100 companies in 32 buildings employing between 3,500 and 4,000 people with an estimated annual payroll of almost $250 million.

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University Research Park Adds Accelerator Building
February 24, 2010
A new building at University Research Park is open and ready for takers. Known as the Accelerator building, it is intended for use by companies whose success is helping them outgrow smaller spaces, said Greg Hyer, the research park’s associate director.

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The business of growing up
February 20, 2010
University Research Park began offering space this month in its new Accerlerator building.  Designed for start-ups that have outgrown smaller suites in the park's incubator building, the 80,000-square-foot Accelerator boasts cutting-edge air-exchange systems, space designed for lab build-outs, and features that could help tenants shave thousands off their energy bills.

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CDI raises $40.6 million
February 18, 2010
Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), the company founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomason, has raised $40.6 million in an equity offering. 

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UW-Madison delegation part of state group at 2010 BIO International show in Chicago
February 3, 2010
MADISON – Wisconsin’s pavilion and related events at the BIO International Convention will feature a “family” of organizations, colleges and programs with ties to UW-Madison, one of the nation’s leading research universities in the life sciences.

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WI State Journal: Life sciences are a winner in Wisconsin
December 28, 2009
Some may not realize that a growing part of this state's economic engine is the biotechnology, medical research and biopharmaceutical industries. Despite 2009's down economy, this sector has found Wisconsin to be a welcoming environment for business opportunity and growth.

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UW-Madison receives $9.5 million to plan for flu pandemic
November 19, 2009
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a five-year, $9.5 million grant Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to develop an early warning system for pandemic flu, the school said in a news release Thursday. UW-Madison virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka is the primary investigator on the project. An international team of scientists will work with Kawaoka on the research, the news release said.

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UW-Madison climate competition offers up to $100,000 in awards
October 6, 2009
Students at any level, from any UW-Madison department, may compete individually or in teams for the grand prize of as much as $50,000 and additional awards of up to $50,000. The winning individual or team also will be offered a 12-month lease on a suite at the University Research Park's new east side facility, the Metro Innovation Center.

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A bio border battle
September 30, 2009
Wisconsin has become the regional biotech equivalent of traditional high-tech powerhouses like Boston, Silicon Valley and Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, thanks to strong political support, an influx of investor capital and what is arguably the most formidable university technology transfer program in the country.

University Research Park (URP) in Madison currently hosts more than 115 companies, with 95 percent of them originating from the University of Wisconsin. The University Enterprise Laboratories in St. Paul is home to about 25 companies, none from the U.

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The Union of Town and Gown
September 23, 2009
To block brain drain and enrich economies, more universities are linking up in creative entrepreneurial initiatives.
Madison has done a bang-up job of attracting biotech companies to its research park, but a few years ago the university realized it needed to encourage business development from its computer science program and a growing crop of student entrepreneurs in need of space outside their dorm rooms. So the University Research Park bought the abandoned Gisholt Machine Co. in a funky neighborhood in downtown Madison and rehabbed it into a 6,000-square-foot, 10-suite Metro Innovation Center. Read full feature at Entrepreneur.com

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Entrepreneur and The Princeton Review Name the Top 50 Schools With the Entrepreneurial Edge
September 22, 2009
Two schools, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and DePaul University in Chicago, led the way for fostering entrepreneurship inside the classroom as well as the community. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was recognized for its University Research Park--home to more than 150 companies and 4,000 well-educated, high-wage employees. DePaul was noted for the consulting, educational and resource services it provides Chicago entrepreneurs via its Coleman Center.

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University Research Park adding companies as Wisconsin's reputation grows
August 20, 2009
Most of Wisconsin’s economy may be in the dumps, with companies announcing layoffs almost daily and the state’s unemployment rate topping 9 in recent months. But it’s been a very good summer for the University Research Park on Madison’s west side and its affiliate, the Metro Innovation Center, only a few blocks east of the Capitol Square. Ten biotech and IT companies have opened offices at the two sites, with the latest one announcing plans to move from Boston on Aug. 12. 

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