Over the past five years, turning the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee into an “entrepreneurial” research university has been touted as an economic “game changer” for Milwaukee. Entrepreneurial UWM has been heralded as the new “driver” of the Milwaukee economy, a commercial “idea hatchery” spawning patents, licenses and business spinoffs that will function as the economic engine for the city and region. The two signature initiatives of UWM entrepreneurialism – a biomedical engineering technology park in Wauwatosa and building a research arm for the Milwaukee 7â??s vision of turning Milwaukee into the “Silicon Valley of water technology”- have been almost universally supported by civic leaders and in the media.
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