Skip to main content

Politicians should get real about job creation

For an example of what does work, take a look at Dane County, where several hundred new businesses and thousands of new jobs have been created because of a hot entrepreneurial climate. Academic research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is being turned into patents, licenses and business start-ups. The University Research Park, now 25 years old, is being doubled in size to raise the number of companies to 200 from 115 now.