MADISON, Wis. — Spinning out new businesses is the goal of many a university in the 21st century.
University of Wisconsin-Madison has been doing that for more than 100 years, helping start roughly 250 companies that have gross revenues today of more than $1 billion.
ââ?¬Å?Itââ?¬â?¢s our responsibility as a major research institution to push ideas into the marketplace to create companies, good jobs and wealth,ââ?¬Â said Noel Radomski, an official in the universityââ?¬â?¢s Office of Corporate Relations (