UW–Madison — along with its affiliated organizations and start-up companies — has a $15 billion impact on Wisconsin and supports 193,310 jobs, according to new data released this spring....
The SWAMP, the Software Assurance Marketplace, gives developers a chance to run their software programs through a series of tools that can root out potential pitfalls — small gaffes that may cause hiccups in the way a program runs or bigger gaps that could let...
A new federal designation will move 14 counties in south-central and southwestern Wisconsin to the front of the line for perhaps $75 million in federal grants over the next two years for a series of projects in the food manufacturing and biotech sectors....
A gift to the Morgridge Institute for Research's 'Fab Lab' will help spur medical device innovations coming directly from doctors....
Exact Sciences’ ambitious plan to commercialize molecular diagnostic tests for several of the deadliest cancers is starting to come into focus....
URP Managing Director Aaron Olver delivered a keynote during the International Economic Development Council's Economic Future Forum that emphasized the fact that successful innovation requires communication and collisions of people to spark new ideas....
At the end of April, MadREP moved its offices from downtown Madison out to the University Research Park....
Invenra, one of the few companies working on new ways to make therapeutic monoclonal antibodies using cell-free protein expression, today announced a partnership with U.K.-based Oxford BioTherapeutics aimed at commercializing a new cancer treatment....
Kevin Conroy, CEO of Madison’s fast-growing Exact Sciences cancer diagnostic company, said that Wisconsin could use Switzerland as a role model to grow its biotech companies, increase innovation and fuel economic development. ...
Is Wisconsin producing enough startup companies? No, especially when all startups are counted… whether those young companies are bakeries, burger joints, beauty salons or biotechnology firms. What often matters more than the sheer number of startups is the survivability and “scale up” stages for young companies,...
The Madworks accelerator program recently launched its fourth cohort, supporting startup companies through grants and mentorship....
By Joe Tarr, Isthmus Dr. Richard Boland has been fighting a long battle against a stealthy foe — colon cancer. If caught early, the disease is one of the easiest cancers to treat and has one of the highest survival rates. But, Boland laments, most people who...