Mentions a 2000 survey of 421 executives by University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor Jon Udell that found that corporate and personal income taxes were a small factor in how businesses rated the state’s competitiveness, with other factors accounting for 89% of their rating.
Drugs to treat cancer and epilepsy, and sugar substitutes that can be used to fight bacteria were some of the products touted by 33 companies seeking to match up with potential investors at the Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference on Tuesday at Monona Terrace.
MILWAUKEE ââ?¬â?? At the State University of New York in Albany, Carlos Santiago helped forge a partnership between IBM and the campus that led to the creation of a $1.5 billion “center of excellence.”
Now that he’s taken up residence in Wisconsin, Santiago sees no reason why UW-Milwaukee can’t aspire to do the same.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s stem cell research is taking a big step forward. News 3 has learned Gov. Jim Doyle will announce Wednesday a plan to construct a research facility for stem cell work on the UW campus, geared toward keeping medical researchers in the Badger state.
Entrepreneurs on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will have a new resource to help them navigate the process of starting a company and the many related centers on campus.
The Office of Corporate Relations is heading the New Business Start-Up Initiative, which is to include events, publications and both one-ond-one and class-based training. This assistance will be available to UW=-Madison faculty, staff and students.
Will all human embryonic stem (hES) cell research move to California in light of the recent passage of a $3 billion bond initiative that is intended to make California the leader in a technology discovered by UW-Madison researcher Dr. James Thomson?
Starting up a business takes money, but too often, Wisconsin entrepreneurs are starved for cash needed to build a business.
Is there anyone who couldn’t usa an extra million dollars?
Leaders of 33 young technology companies are practicing their pitches as they prepare for the Wisconsin Life Sciences & Venture Conference in Madison on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Quoted: Allen Phelps, director of the Center on Education and Work at UW-Madison.
Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to announce soon a strategy to keep Wisconsin at the forefront of stem cell research, despite a California vote to spend billions in public dollars on the effort.
Some of the brightest stars of investing emit false light. Finding and avoiding such fakers has become of increasing concern in the wake of the corporate scandals of the early 21st century. Missing the next Enron Corp. has become as important as hitting the next Microsoft Corp. Story focuses on a presenter at the UW-Madison Directors’ Summit.
A new initiative designed to help University of Wisconsin students, staff and faculty create, support and sustain new companies was announced Friday.
Starting up a business takes money, but too often, Wisconsin entrepreneurs are starved for cash needed to build a business.
MADISON – Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to soon announce a strategy to keep Wisconsin at the forefront of stem cell research, despite a California vote to spend billions in public money on the effort.
The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations will launch a program today that aims to create and support start-up companies that would capitalize on the research and technology produced at the university.
The new mantra among the nation’s rising medical researchers may sound like this: Go west, young scientist. Or, more to the point: Follow the money.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Faculty, staff and students at UW-Madison who want to start their own companies will soon have more help, thanks to a new program being unveiled today
An investment of $8.5 million from a venture-capital syndicate has drawn a St. Louis biotech company to Wisconsin, where it will inhabit brand-new lab facilities at Milwaukee County Research Park, the Wisconsin Technology Network reported.
Although a number of national policies are set to go under the Bush administration�s microscope during his second term, one initiative is likely to remain untouched for the next four years: regulations and limitations over the federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison was one of seven U.S. research universities to receive a grant from the Intel Advanced Computing Center on Monday at the SC2004 high-power computing conference in Philadelphia.
The best way to improve corporate accountability would be for the Securities and Exchange Commission to make it easier for shareholders to nominate directors, SEC Commissioner Harvey J. Goldschmid said Wednesday. His remarks were made in an address to the annual Directors’ Summit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 21st century gold rush is on in California after voters approved $3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research. At least one out-of-state biotech company is already making plans to move to California…And universities are hoping to recruit some of the field’s brightest minds to take part in the biggest state-run research project in U.S. history. (Provost Peter Spear is quoted in this article in the 11/10/04 Capital Times print edition.)
Mentions a study published last year by Terry Warfield, assistant professor of accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Qiang Cheng, assistant professor of accounting at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, that found that managers with high equity incentives are more likely to report earnings that meet or just beat analysts’ forecasts than are managers who have low equity incentives.
People with glaucoma, a disease that can lead to blindness, might some day be better able to treat their illness, thanks to an agreement between UW-Madison and a North Carolina biopharmaceutical company.
California scientists and university officials last week celebrated a major victory after voters there approved a ballot measure to provide $3-billion in state funds over 10 years for stem-cell research. Officials were already planning to set up a mechanism to distribute the money.
(Madison) With a 9-0 team Badger’s fans are loving this football season, and celebrating right alongside them are businesses and vendors near Camp Randall. For the last home game, the bars were full, brats were selling, and game goers were loading up on Badger’s gear. Some business owners feel the team’s winning streak is a boost to business.
Inspire Pharmaceuticals Inc., a publicly traded firm based in Durham, N.C., has reached an agreement to exclusively license several patents from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for use in developing new therapeutics for treating glaucoma.
The University of Wisconsin System has reinvested in Tyson Foods International, after divesting from its bonds last year in solidarity with striking workers….On Thursday, at the regents’ annual investment forum, the university’s reinvestment in Tyson appeared to catch even some regents by surprise.
(11/5/04 Capital Times print edition)
Quoted: Robin Alta Charo, a medical ethicist and assistant dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Embryonic stem-cell research was born in Wisconsin. It matured in Massachusetts.
But it will grow up in California, nourished by the passage of Proposition 71, which authorizes $3 billion in spending over 10 years, science-policy experts predict. (Login: clipsheet@news.wisc.edu, pass: badgers)
Let the scramble for the cash begin.
By approving a proposition Tuesday that will make $3 billion in state funds available over the next decade for stem cell research, California voters made the state the likely world center for science that may one day lead to treatments for some of the world’s most devastating diseases.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? What does it mean to the biotech community to have a major research facility in your backyard? That question should be thoroughly addressed at the Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference program named ââ?¬Å?Inside the Labs: Where Science Spawns Novel Therapies.ââ?¬Â The conference will be held November 16 and 17.
With the passage of a $3-billion stem cell bond measure, California moves into uncharted territory, becoming the first state to create a massive program to fund a single field of scientific research.
Scientists around the country who study embryonic stem cells may be mourning four more years of President Bush’s restrictive funding policy, but California scientists are throwing a party, and top researchers in less-funded states are hoping for invitations.
Passage of the $3 billion stem cell research initiative, Proposition 71, could help California repeat one of the most celebrated chapters in its business history if one of its most eminent supporters is right.
Since the master’s degree in business administration first appeared decades ago, critics have rapped the MBA as an ivory tower creation with little relevance to real life. Indeed, many MBA graduates barely set foot in a workplace before they land a six-figure salary.
Californians have approved putting their state into further debt to fund stem-cell research. In election-day polling, 59 percent of California voters approved Proposition 71, which will provide $3 billion in research grants over the next decade.
“Dear Editor: I’m a downtown resident who loves the isthmus, the campus, and our city as a whole, and I’m angry about what a group who likes to have fun has done to our neighborhoods and to the public image of our city,” writes just one of many whose Halloween-related letters appear in the 11/3/04 Capital Times print edition, page 13A.
Readers call in to sound off about Halloween on State St. and the merchants who “are making tons of money” from it while taxpayers foot the bill for police services. (11//04 Capital Times print edition)
The Wisconsin Alumni Association is running a new Web site that will help UW-Madison graduates find jobs and enable employers to find those job seekers.
State Street merchant John Williamson doesn’t think Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s threat to discourage Halloween festivities on State Street next year will work. “There is nothing like throwing the gauntlet down to college kids,” said Williamson, owner of Sports World at 510 State St.
Just months after signing a deal with an industry leader, Madison-based genetic technology company NimbleGen Systems announced that it has raised another $12.75 million in venture funding.
…To survive the workplace now, many young people have had to start over on the bottom rung – not exactly the position many expected to be in five years after graduation. According to Alexandra Levit, a Northwestern University graduate who recently wrote the book “They Don’t Teach Corporate in College,” her age group has aspirations that are “way out of whack with reality.”
The city could take in a total of $125,000 in fines if all the 519 charges stick after two nights of Halloween trouble on State Street, police said. And, while the mayor was making noises about canceling it next year, State Street business people were looking on the brighter side of the annual Halloween bash.
NimbleGen’s advantage, Palay said, is using technology developed at UW- Madison
It’s not hard to guess what State Street merchants will be talking about at their meeting this morning…But Downtown Alderman Mike Verveer tells WIBA News they’ll likely take a less negative view things than say…the Mayor.Ã?Â
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? James Thomson avoided talking politics in a public lecture on the eve of the presidential election, explaining instead the science behind his research into stem cells.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? That giant sucking sound you hear on Wednesday might be a good chunk of the countryââ?¬â?¢s stem cell scientists ââ?¬â?? including some from Wisconsin – being drawn to California.
UW-Madison plays a pivotal and unique role in the economy of Madison by attracting people who can command relatively high salaries, said Kevin Reilly, University of Wisconsin System president.
All of the human embryonic stem cells available to federally funded scientists under President Bush’s three-year-old research policy share a previously unrecognized trait that fosters rejection by the immune systems, diminishing their potential as medical treatments, new research indicates. (Login required.)
…The regular-season finale – Formerly Known As The Big Game – will soon be formally addressed as the SBC Michigan-Ohio State Classic….For a local reference point, TDS Telecommunications is presenting the Border Battle Cup to the winner of the all-sports competition between the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin.
If we’re all driving around in hydrogen-powered cars some day, a Madison company could be primarily responsible for producing the fuel. Virent Energy Systems, a fledgling UW-Madison spin-off, has received about $1.4 million in federal grant money for further development over the next three years of its system that derives hydrogen from biomass such as corn stalks.
UW-Madison alumni John J. Oros and Anne Wackman Oros have given $1 million to the university’s School of Business, officials for the school said Wednesday. The gift from John Oros, president and chief operating officer of Enstar Group, and his wife will help establish a fund to bring executives from major companies to address students.
The possibility of a repeat of last year’s Halloween riot has many State Street businesses spooked, but this holiday some owners are hoping for as many treats as tricks.
(Madison) The UW Athletic Department finds itself without a substantial sum of money.
Over the next two year, $900,000 the Department was counting on receiving from bond payments for Camp Randall, is being allocated elsewhere.
California voters on Nov. 2 will decide whether to authorize a powerful burst of state funding for stem cell research there. Proposition 71 on the ballot would provide about $3 billion in tax-free state bonds for stem cell research in that state over a 10-year period.
In order to attract the high-tech jobs that are fueling the new economy, Wisconsin needs to protect its vaunted education system and do a better job branding itself, according to a group of academic and business panelists who spoke Wednesday night at the Kohl Center on the UW-Madison campus. .
Halloween is increasingly a treat for cities that can turn local attractions and celebrations into revenue….Yet, some cities find Halloween has more tricks than treat. For example, Madison, Wis…. (USA Today)
Wisconsin�s head start in stem-cell research could be challenged by the intervention of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
