MADISON – University Research Park head Mark Bugher, a former Republican cabinet officer, is spreading the message that UW and its research assets are a treasure often unappreciated close to home.
After recent travels to Europe and Florida, Bugher is convinced that Wisconsin has an economic dynamo in the making — a fact sometimes seen clearer from afar than inside the state’s borders.
And he notes some of the hurdles to full exploitation of the economic engine that is UW.