Tony Escarcega spent 20 hours trolling the patent archives of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s technology transfer arm before finding five ideas he thought could spawn a good company. He talked to all five inventors and whittled the list down to one promising technology: a large-molecule-drug delivery patch. Escarcega became partners with a graduate student working on the technology, and the two spent five months tweaking a business plan. The result is Ratio – a start-up biotech company that won the $10,000 prize in UW-Madison’s G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition.
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