by Tech Council | Apr 4, 2018 | Featured, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
Twenty-five entries representing sectors as broad as social media, health technologies and innovations in products or services are competing in the finalist round of the 15th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The contestants have survived two rounds...
by Tech Council | Feb 19, 2018 | Featured, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News, WisBusiness: The Show
Welcome to “WisBusiness: The Show,” a twice-a-month Web show covering state business news and issues. MADISON – The latest episode of “WisBusiness.com: The Show” features an interview with Caitlin Lu of Stripes Group, a New York-based investment company, who talks...
by Tech Council | Feb 16, 2018 | NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
Innovators with current or past ties to the UW System are invited to apply to the Ideadvance Seed Fund with business ideas that could contribute to Wisconsin’s “knowledge economy.” The Ideadvance program provides business funding and mentoring toward a scalable,...
by Tech Council | Jan 25, 2018 | NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Rebecca Blank and Brad Schwartz, opinion contributors It’s not easy making the life of a scientist look exciting. Thinking is incredibly boring to watch, which is probably why “Petri Dish Warriors” would never reach the prime-time success of “Ice Road Truckers.”...
by Tech Council | Dec 29, 2017 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – There are many who believe society has “summoned the demon” through technologies that threaten to addict us to screens and games, more susceptible to cyber-snoops and replaceable by machines. Those dangers and more are possible, of course,...