Noted: On Monday, a report by a UW-Madison economist found the massive manufacturing complex could generate nearly $4 in gains for the state for every $1 in taxpayer subsidies.
WARF is blazing forward with efforts to turn UW-Madison discoveries into products on the market, and will triple its spending on entrepreneurial programs over the next several years.
A massive manufacturing complex planned by Foxconn Technology Group could generate broad gains for Wisconsin “that go far beyond the direct job estimates and tax revenue costs which have dominated the recent discussion,” according to a report by a UW-Madison economist released Monday.
For most patients, the ability to send an email to their doctor can feel like a quick way to get their health concerns addressed. For doctors, these “e-visits” were touted as both a potential time-saver and a way to bring down health care costs. However, an updated study from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Madison-Wisconsin found e-visits were less of a time and money saver than previously believed.
Quoted: Benjamin Cox is an assistant engineer in the Morgridge Institute for Research fabrication lab at UW-Madison and a graduate student in the medical physics department who has been working in 3D printing for seven years. He said comparing printing Filamet on a home 3D printer to the larger metal printers is “a bit of a false comparison”.
A new study by UW-Madison researchers finds there can be such a thing as “too many fish in the sea”: having so many romantic options, you’re less satisfied with your choice.
Noted: The funds would go to the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, a UW-Madison master’s degree of business administration program with a focus on arts administration, to partner with the village.
Quoted: All things considered, talking about past pay can offer employers some insight into a candidate, says Barry Gerhart, senior associate dean for faculty and research at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. “You can glean useful information from knowing [an applicant’s] salary history, because it does show the degree to which, or whether, a person has successfully moved through positions of increasing responsibility,” says Gerhart.
Noted: Well, “sharing” to the extent that two people have matching copies of the same object. “The fact that a gift is shared with the giver makes it a better gift in the eyes of the receiver,” says Evan Polman, marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They like a companionized gift more, and they even feel closer to the giver.”
Noted: Neis points to GE Healthcare, which employs 6,800 people and has 870 suppliers in Wisconsin, supporting another 21,000 jobs. GE has worked closely with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he noted, and executives have left the company to start their own ventures, including TomoTherapy, NeuWave Medical and Healthmyne. Foxconn could have the same halo effect.
MADISON, Wis. – Most experts agree, driverless car or autonomous vehicles are coming. Just when it will happen remains up for debate.
After lawmakers finished grilling members of the Walker administration over the details of a proposed incentive package to bring Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin, the mood in Thursday’s public hearing audibly changed.
More than 15 million American adults — 8.4 percent of men and 4.2 percent of women — suffer from some form of alcohol-use disorder, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (NIAAA). The federal health agency estimates that the annual economic cost of alcohol misuse hovers around $249 billion once one weighs the tolls on our health care system, public safety and productivity, to say nothing of the inestimable emotional cost.
SHINE is an offshoot of UW-Madison research that Piefer began as a graduate student in the lab of Gerald Kulcinski, now professor emeritus of engineering physics and director of the UW’s Fusion Technology Institute.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers two 16-week courses for one credit that teach money management. One offering is directed at freshmen and sophomores and the other for juniors and seniors. These courses are supported by peer counselors from the personal-finance major who conduct small group sessions. The UW alumni association also has long-offered a free one-day workshop for graduating seniors in cooperation with local financial professionals that draws up to 300 attendees.
The University of Wisconsin System says with more state money, it can boost engineering enrollments and training for other workers needed by a Taiwanese electronics company that has big plans to build a factory in southeastern Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross also told lawmakers he believes the Foxconn project would be “transformative” for the state and would “catapult” the state university system into a “position of global prominence.”
Noted: Like several other sources, Gonzalez pointed to UW-Madison as an important factor for Foxconn in considering Dane County. In addition to the research there, UW is also an alma mater for executives and scientists in Taiwan who are connected to Foxconn, sources said.
Rebecca Blank, the UW-Madison chancellor, has already proposed strategic partnerships with Foxconn that could result in funding for research and development at the university.
The company is looking for a 20-acre site in the Madison area on which it can build a 700,000-square-foot manufacturing plant that could employ as many as 650 people over the first five years of operation, according to the July 26 email the Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP) sent to city, county, UW-Madison and business officials around Dane County. July 26 was also the day Foxconn’s Wisconsin project was announced in Washington, D.C.
Specifically, Foxconn would need 1,600 process equipment engineers, 463 integration engineers and 300 computer-integrated manufacturing engineers. Ian Roberston, the dean at the College of Engineering at UW-Madison, said he believes that UW System, along with other schools in the area, would be able to address Foxconn’s workforce needs — as well as those of other companies in the state — but it would require growing the number of engineering students enrolled at undergraduate institutions.
Over the past few years, UW-Madison’s engineering school has completed a series of renovation projects on its laboratory and facilities, Robertson said, and it has the capacity to handle an additional 500 to 600 students.
What it doesn’t have is the necessary faculty and staff numbers to handle an influx of students that large, he said.
“I’m confident that we can increase our capacity, with an appropriate investment, in order to meet that demand,” he said.
John Biondi, who since 2014 has directed Discovery to Product—a program that helps students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison turn ideas into companies—says he’s leaving the organization later this month.
Noted: In another local connection, the head of the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently met with representatives of the medical equipment division within Foxconn about potential collaboration with cancer researchers in Taiwan. “I will hope and expect that there will be a give and take … such that patients in Taiwan would benefit and patients in Wisconsin would benefit,” Howard Bailey, the center’s director, said in an interview.
Last week, Governor Scott Walker announced that Foxconn would open its first U.S. plant in Wisconsin and in turn, the state would provide $3 billion in incentives. WUWM spoke with UW-Madison economics professor Noah Williams about why states offer deals to companies.
As a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bob Lindner used to develop artificial intelligence to better understand the stars, programming ways to analyze the data collected by massive telescopes.
There are 75,000 graduates produced each year by the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin Technical College System and the state’s private colleges and universities. That’s a likely source for some of the workers who will eventually fill Foxconn’s Wisconsin labor force. Wisconsin colleges and universities are also home to a research and development structure that rivals what can be found in most states – although it’s time to reinvest in that asset before quality wanes.
U.S. patent No. 5,781,752 may not sound special: It’s a “table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer.” But for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — the research arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison — it’s now worth half a billion dollars.
In an effort to connect black-owned businesses in Milwaukee and Madison, the Heymiss Progress Business Expo and Job Fair returned to Madison late July, this year featuring a University of Wisconsin student’s clothing line which drew headlines for its controversial message.
Apple has gotten itself into a bit of a pickle. U.S. District Court Judge William Conley pounded the gavel on Monday ordering Apple to pay $506 million to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
MADISON – Foxconn executives have met with staff of the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — a sign of how far the economic ripples of a deal with the company might eventually extend.
Paul Jadin, president of the Madison Region Economic Partnership, said there would be potential links for local medical-device manufacturers and for UW-Madison. “Certainly there would be opportunities for our supply chain. We also would be a very significant player in research and development” at UW-Madison, Jadin said.
(Reuters) – A US judge on Monday ordered Apple Inc to pay $506 million for infringing on a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm, more than doubling the damages initially imposed on Apple by a jury.
A spokesman for Chancellor Becky Blank would not confirm a meeting had taken place, but said in a statement that ” UW-Madison supports economic development efforts in the advanced manufacturing or tech sectors that will provide more opportunities for Wisconsin and its citizens.”
MADISON, Wis. – A deal for a major tech company to come to Wisconsin could be imminent, according to reports.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a big-idea powerhouse.
A video game about exploring the cosmos that a University of Wisconsin-Madison institution developed is up for a national award for educational games.
Buzz about a massive Taiwan manufacturer setting up shop in Wisconsin seems to be getting louder. That could have tremendous ripple effect, says University of Wisconsin economist Hart Posen.
UW-Madison researchers are trying to root out race bias and other unfairness that has surfaced in computer programs used increasingly by private companies and government offices to decide if you are hired, approved for a bank loan or sent to prison.
We’re no strangers to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Badgerloop team, having spilled some ink about their impressive showing at last year’s inaugural Hyperloop competition at SpaceX headquarters in California. (We even profiled them in a video vignette which you can view here.)
Stagakis and Wojcik set out to create an ice cream bar that would stand out in the industry, and for fine tuning, the partners took their recipe to the UW-Madison Dairy Science Department to make sure the product met the standards they were looking for.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are putting the final touches on a high-tech metal pod designed to shoot a passenger through networks of pneumatic tubes at 270 mph.
Every summer, about 60 graduate students with diverse backgrounds and interests come together at the UW-Madison School of Business for a week of intensive schooling about what it takes to start a tech-based company.
Internet users may soon notice a boost in performance thanks to a team of UW-Madison researchers who published an atlas of its physical structure around the world.
Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison are developing a video game that will guide K-12 teachers through the hazards of unconscious attitudes and assumptions that affect the way they see their students, a phenomenon called “implicit bias.”
If the Regents of the University of California and the California Institute of Technology see big paydays in their fight against tech bigwigs, could that further fuel the university patent boom?
Madison ranked No. 10 on a list of top 25 tech cities, and much of it has to do with a highly educated workforce, according to a report by commercial real estate services firm, Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
The panelists also addressed the nagging problem of the “valley of death” in funding startups in Wisconsin. While the seed round is relatively easy to raise, many startups struggle to get additional investment beyond that stage.
“There is a real regional strength here in the state. You look at what comes out of UW-Madison, -Milwaukee, the other institutions here—there’s a lot going on,” Arida said. “There’s not a lot of follow-one capital. There has been a disproportionate surge in seed investing relative (to later stage investment).”
About 600 people attended the two-day Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference at Union South.
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Apple’s request to overturn a jury’s finding that the company must pay $234 million in damages to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) for infringing on a patent held by the foundation, according to a statement from WARF and multiple news reports.
A federal judge in Madison on Tuesday upheld a jury’s $234.3 million damages award against computer maker Apple, which in October 2015 lost a patent infringement lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, UW-Madison’s intellectual property arm.
Noted: April McHugh is a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
Noted: Dykes was among 13 finalists to participate in the contest, organized every year by the Wisconsin Technology Council. The council’s president, Tom Still, announced Dykes as the winner of the competition at an award ceremony at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union South, as part of the council’s Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference.
A U.S. judge has rejected Apple Inc’s bid to overturn a jury’s $234 million award to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm for incorporating its microchip technology into some of its iPhones and iPads without permission.
The price to buy nothing has gone up over the last 10 years, and an exclusive group of donors is very interested in finding out what the next 10 will bring.
With 168 patents issued last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison moved back into sixth place among 100 universities surveyed around the world last year, according to a news release from the school.
Noted: The latest crop of contest finalists will present Tuesday at the 15th annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference at Union South in Madison, where 500 or more people will gather to hear speakers, panel discussions and more over two days ending Wednesday afternoon.
Noted: The magazine article focuses on the history of the BrainPort, created in the 1960s by the late UW-Madison professor Paul Bach-y-Rita, and how mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer uses the device.
Noted: Virent’s BioForming process, whose roots came from UW-Madison research by Randy Cortright and James Dumesic, can turn waste agriculture products, such as corn cobs and stalks, into fuel that has the same chemical makeup as gasoline or jet fuel and can be used as a substitute for the petroleum products.
The secret ingredient to building a robust investment fund for startups might just be Badger pride. That’s the idea behind a new venture capital fund called Bascom Ventures, anyway.
Red Arrow American Pale Ale became available in stores May 1, and in just a few short weeks is nearly sold out. The high demand shows that the UW-Madison Fermentation Sciences Program (Campus Craft Brewery) has met its educational goals, while its partner, Wisconsin Brewing Company has exceeded its commercial goals.
