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The Wisconsin Innovation Network (WIN) eNewsletter is a periodical of news, events and programs about the needs and challenges faced by new and growing technology-based businesses in Wisconsin. WIN has chapters in western Wisconsin, the Lake Superior region, Madison, Milwaukee, northeast Wisconsin and central Wisconsin.
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| Semi-finalists in annual Governor's Biz Plan Contest forge ahead | | |
Forty-nine entries from about two-dozen communities have advanced to the semi-final round of the eighth annual Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest, contest producers announced Monday.
The contestants were selected from a field of 220 first-round entries by an independent panel of nearly 60 judges organized through the Wisconsin Technology Council, which is producing the contest in conjunction with its membership subsidiary, the Wisconsin Innovation Network, the Wisconsin Angel Network and other statewide affiliates.
Read more and see list of semi-finalists here.
www.govsbizplancontest.com |
| Madison-based TomoTherapy acquired by Accuray for $277 million | |
TomoTherapy, a Madison company that makes advanced equipment used in radiation therapy, has agreed to be bought by Accuray in a deal valued at about $277 million. Accuray is a California-based company also engaged in high-end radiation therapy. Watch for updates on the deal, announced Monday, at www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com
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| Tech Leaders Survey results featured on 'WisBusiness: The Show' | |
The latest editions of "WisBusiness: The Show" feature timely interviews with business newsmakers, the WisBusiness.com news stock report and commentaries.
The early March edition features Rod Hise, president of The Luminis Group, who talks about the results of the latest statewide Tech Leaders Survey. Tom Still, president of the Tech Council, talks about the plan to give UW-Madison more independence, and our stock report has the highs and lows for early March.
Click here to see the show produced by Tweedee Productions.
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| Wisconsin venture fund under consideration with governor's office | |
Click here to read a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story about a governor's office initiative to explore creation of a Wisconsin venture capital fund. Former state sen. Ted Kanavas, a software entrepreneur, is working with members of the Legislature and Wisconsin's investment community on a plan.
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| Business commentary: Report pounds home need to help start-ups | | |
As Wisconsin policy-makers ponder what it means to ensure the state is truly "open for business," their reading list should include a July 2010 report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation that highlights the importance of homegrown start-up companies to the American economy.
Read full Journal Sentinel commentary by Tom Still here. |
| Wisconsin boy, treated at MCW, is 'face of genome research' | |
Francis S. Collins, whose work helped lead to the cracking of the human genome puzzle a decade ago, has highlighted a 6-year-old Wisconsin boy as one of the "Faces in the Genome" in an article he wrote for the journal Science. Collins is now director of the National Institutes of Health. The boy, Nic Volker, was featured in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel series that examined research conducted at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Read more here.
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| Fox Valley venture capital investors seek more opportunities | |
Click here to read an Appleton Post Crescent story on the state of venture capital investing in northeast Wisconsin. The story features Charlie Goff and the NEW Capital Fund, a member of the Wisconsin Angel Network. |
| UW System president describes job creation role in Op-Ed column | |
Click here to read a guest column by UW System President Kevin Reilly in the Sunday edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In his column, Reilly describes how university research is helping to create jobs in Wisconsin. |
| Business commentary: Innovation theme key for Obama, Walker | |
It was President Barack Obama's time last week to address the nation and to lay out his agenda for innovation, competitiveness and growth. This week, it's Gov. Scott Walker's turn to do the same in Wisconsin.
Read full Journal Sentinel commentary by Tom Still here.
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| Milwaukee group says 'creative industries' should be a focus of growth | | |
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| Flugen obtains $7.8 million in financing through UW investor | |
FluGen of Madison, has received $7.8 million in a financing round led by Knox, the Las Vegas investment vehicle of UW-Madison alumnus Frederick J. Mancheski.
Click here for full State Journal article.
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Oshkosh nanotechnology company lands angel financing | |
Shamrock Energy Corp., an Oshkosh company that is using nanomaterials to develop better ways to store and use energy, has raised $580,000 from angel investors. Read more in this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story. |
| Flex Biomedical, a Madison firm, lands funding for joint-pain treatment | |
A Madison biotech company that is developing treatments for orthopedic diseases said Wednesday that it has raised $866,000 of outside funding. Flex Biomedical Inc. will use the money to further develop its lead product, said Sal Braico, chief executive officer. Read full Journal Sentinel article here |
| Executive Q&A: Failed drug didn't stop Madison firm Mithridion | |
Mithridion CEO Trevor Twose collaborated with an Ohio firm to survive. In the business world, the path to success is not always straight ahead. And in biotechnology, the route can be even more circuitous, often hitting a dead end. That could have happened to Mithridion, a Madison company developing drugs to fight Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.
Read full State Journal article here. |
| Venture funding for state firms hit second-highest level in 2010 | |
Promising, young Wisconsin companies raised a total of $121.8 million in venture capital funds in 2010, a report says - only the second time in 20 years that venture investments in Wisconsin have topped $100 million.
Read full Wisconsin State Journal article here. |
| Capturing China's water needs: Story points to R&D opportunities | |
China occupies a prominent place in the global $483 billion market for equipment that treats, recycles, analyzes, desalinates, pumps and transports water - a market that's expected to grow to well over $600 billion by 2016. It's an opportunity for Wisconsin businesses and researchers. Read full Journal Sentinel article here. |
| Still column: Building a dream at core of business plan contest | |
Some finalists in the seven-year history of the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest have raised more money for their start-ups. Others have taken their products to market quicker - or continue to refine life-saving technologies.
When it comes to exuding the pure enthusiasm and energy associated with being an entrepreneur, however, it's hard to find a bigger contest winner than Ophir Ben-Yitschak.
Read more from Tom Still's commentary in the Journal Sentinel here. |
| Inside Wisconsin columns tackle state, tech issues | | |
Inside Wisconsin
Tech Council President Tom Still shares insights on technology, the economy and politics though "Inside Wisconsin." Here are some recent columns:
Inside WI: Wisconsin-led 'IceCube' project redefines astrophysics - and Big Science: John Wiley, the former UW-Madison chancellor, is a physicist by training, and accustomed to his profession's penchant to undersell its accomplishments to any audience - except other physicists. So when Dr. Michael DuVernois described the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in low-key, even humble, terms to a recent Madison meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network, Wiley jolted the crowd with a description that left no doubt about how he felt about the project....Read more.
Capitol protests offer opportunity to rebrand Wisconsin - for better or worse: Is the new Wisconsin brand destined to become "We're open for business" or "We're at war with ourselves"? That question is on the minds of many in the business community, nationally as well as in Wisconsin, as the mass protests surrounding Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair legislation continue to capture national and even international attention....Read more. Why business should take notice of WEAC's school reform plan: It's easy to be cynical about the plan for school reform offered by the statewide teachers' union... almost too easy. But what really matters is that front-line educators have signaled they're ready for school reform - changes that could build a smarter, better-prepared workforce for Wisconsin. It's an offer that should not be shrugged off with an early dismissal bell...Read more. Packers win! Now, can the Wisconsin economy aspire to its own Super Bowl? The Green Bay Packers have just proven that a team from professional football's smallest market can rebuild from within, overcome adversity and win when it matters. Let's hope the still-struggling Wisconsin economy has the potential to do the same....Read more. Is there a 'right' to broadband? Public Service Commission case could help decide: We live in a society that values its historic constitutional rights and which sometimes aspires to create new rights, justified or otherwise. Witness the federal debate over health care reform, which basically comes down to whether Americans accept the existence of a "right," or entitlement, to health care...Read more.
Tapping into Wisconsin's energy potential should be bipartisan goal:
Unless someone strikes oil in Oshkosh, discovers natural gas in Necedah or mines coal in Colfax, the state of Wisconsin is destined to remain largely dependent - perhaps for decades - on outside sources of energy that power its homes, businesses and vehicles. That economic dependency can be slowly but steadily reduced, however, if Wisconsin builds on its emerging expertise around development of new sources of energy...Read more.
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| News, events and opportunities | |
* Register now for the 2011 Green Energy Summit, to be held March 9-11 at Milwaukee's Frontier Airline Center. The Green Energy Summit is a major regional conference organized to promote investment, development and education for the oncoming green global economy. * The 2011 National SBIR/STTR Spring Conference will be held April 10-13 at Madison's Monona Terrace. The conference offer a chance to learn from experts on the federal SBIR grant program, which helps speed the transfer of technology into the marketplace. * The Tech Council Board of Directors will meet April 5 at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek in Madison. Contact Sarah Williams for more information.  * The Wisconsin Technology Council has released its 2010-2011 white papers report, called "Looking to the future: A case for bold action." This biennial report contains recommendations in four broad areas: Increasing access to capital for Wisconsin entrepreneurs; Workforce development; Infrastructure and business climate; and Technology development. Click here to read the full report, which was issued in July 2010. |
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