Elizabeth Hlavacka, an 8th grader at Aquinas Middle School in La Crosse, is the grand prize winner in Wisconsin YES!, a statewide youth business plan contest for students in middle and high school....
Finalists representing diverse tech-based sectors in Wisconsin’s startup economy will present live to judges in the Governor’s Business Plan Contest during the 13th annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Madison....
Currently, more than 3,800 people are employed by the 126 businesses and organizations in the University Research Park....
The University of Wisconsin-Madison joined the growing hackathon trend this past April with its first large-scale hackathon event--dubbed MadHacks--organized and run by students in the Department of Computer Sciences and hosted by University Research Park....
A survey just completed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association shows a substantial level of business startups among graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
Exact Sciences announced its first quarter business and financial results, reporting that 11,000 Cologuard™ tests were completed and that the number of ordering physicians more than doubled, increasing from 4,100 at the end of 2014 to 8,300 in the first quarter of 2015....
The winner of the Qualcomm Innovation Competition on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is a device that mixes chemicals within a pipe. The contest challenges UW-Madison students to develop new products or technologies and marry those ideas with market-ready business plans....
The Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference, occurring in Madison June 2 - 3, will showcase numerous examples of the innovation economy in southeast Wisconsin....
On behalf of Nepali American Friendship Association (NAFA), a local not-for-profit organization in Madison, Wl, we are requesting your support and contributions to help alleviate the devastation of the recent earthquake in Nepal....
A day-long competition with 43 teams of students being judged by 23 business people and entrepreneurs led to a $10,000 prize for Tixora, an online booking service for intercity motorcoach buses....
Madison-based Co-D Therapeutics Inc. said Tuesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug status for a drug it is developing for the treatment of a rare cancer of the inner lining of blood vessels....
The Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory (TCNL) recently received $4.5 million from the Department of Defense to conduct research on the efficacy of a traumatic brain injury therapy, developed in the UW-Madison lab, for use on military personnel. ...