Tag Entrepreneurship
Enhancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem
The 2022 Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards honor UW–Madison innovators and alumni who further the Wisconsin Idea through outstanding accomplishments in entrepreneurship. A ceremony honoring the recipients was held March 23 at the Discovery Building.
Four honored with UW Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards
The four recipients of this year’s awards showcase how the university and its alumni are leading innovation in technology and manufacturing, bolstering the local startup ecosystem, and driving economic growth in the state and across the country.
Veterinary medicine students launch software startup to serve clinics
The platform allows veterinarians to request, send and review the medical records of patients who have received care from other clinics through a business-to-business software model.
Two UW–Madison teams chosen 2021 WARF Innovation Award winners
Researchers who created a device for detecting explosives and a cross-disciplinary group working at the frontiers of medicine and nanotechnology have taken top honors from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Meet some of the exceptional graduates of winter 2021
This year’s winter graduates are an accomplished bunch — they’ve created new student organizations, toured the world on music stages, undertaken important research, and won major awards
‘Innovate Week’ to showcase tools and resources
The series of events Oct. 4-8 will give faculty and staff opportunities to meet fellow entrepreneurs, connect with programs, trainings and resources, and learn about entrepreneurship contests.
Madison’s tech sector booms, driven by UW innovation
UW-Madison provides cutting-edge research, entrepreneurial graduates and researchers, and a well-educated local workforce that motivates some employers to open offices in Madison.
Forward BIOLABS, with UW–Madison, bolsters Wisconsin biohealth sector
The lab helps reduce the time it takes fledgling biohealth companies to launch by six to nine months and is instrumental in keeping biohealth talent in Wisconsin.
Groundbreaking entrepreneurship science lab fosters student entrepreneurs
The Entrepreneurship Science Lab is using data science to bolster student entrepreneurship on college campuses — and by extension, create greater opportunity for young innovators and increase economic prosperity for local communities.
UW startup DataChat democratizes data science
The company's growth since being founded in 2017 illustrates the many ways UW–Madison nurtures start-ups that arise from its research.
Meet the campus innovators launching successful companies in an unprecedented time
While the global pandemic has challenged business owners across many sectors, startup companies helped by UW–Madison's UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product program have managed to demonstrate resilience.
COVID-19: Tips and resources for entrepreneurs
Last week WARF and UW–Madison hosted a first-ever virtual summit to address what small businesses and entrepreneurs need to know, right now, about the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts from campus and across the region offered intelligence and strategies for navigating uncertain times.
PharmD students launch Pegasus Health Apps to improve cancer care
The company has created a mobile app that would allow patients and their specialty pharmacies to track their oral chemotherapy treatment cycles and side effects, ensuring optimal management of their care.
UW-Madison joins national leaders to discuss plan to promote high-tech growth
Madison has become a hotbed of innovation and economic activity that is nearly unique beyond the coasts, with major developments in health technology, information technology, and biotechnology, according to a recent report.
Invention is an insulin innovation
A University of Wisconsin–Madison alumnus is now selling a patented device to help people with diabetes safely and easily inject insulin with just one hand.
Partnership fosters entrepreneurship that has social impact
Entrepreneurship can be measured in more than just financial success, says the leader of an effort to incorporate solving social problems into entrepreneurial ventures in…
75 years later, UW–Madison inventors aim to replace old-style breast-surgery marker
Under Elucent's system, a SmartClip is placed in a patient's tumor that emits a high frequency signal or “chirp” when activated, so it can guide the surgeon to the tissue that needs to be removed.
Easing the FoodChain: Startup aims to cut “friction” for local food producers, buyers
FoodChain, a spinoff started by two UW–Madison alumni helps small farms place their produce at restaurants and high-end food stores with on-line ordering and by handling the final delivery.
UW–Madison and WARF again rank high in patents
A survey of the world’s top universities placed the University of Wisconsin–Madison as the seventh-greatest source of U.S. patents, with 157 issued in 2018 to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for UW inventions.
UW Changes Lives: Campus-born fertility company seeks to improve women’s health care, Wisconsin economy
What started as a side project in a UW–Madison laboratory is now a successful business that’s closer than ever to giving women a way to help overcome difficulties in conceiving a child.