Advance your business with UW–Madison
We are now the Office of Business Engagement. Our new name is a restatement of the university’s proud 15-year commitment to help facilitate access for businesses across the university community. We also welcome managing director, Amy Achter.
A University of Wisconsin–Madison startup won the grand prize and three others won top awards in their categories in the 15th annual Governor’s Business Plan Contest.
This unique partnership has students, scientists, and businesses working with new strains of yeast and testing commercial implications by experimenting with unique beer styles and probing the impact on bread dough.
Departments from across UW are collaborating with American Family Insurance -- helping to apply big data analytics to the company’s data stream. Learn about the project goals and how the process got underway.
Check out this impressive group of UW–Madison students whose innovations, ideas and products will change the shape of the world we live in.
When Shawn Michels’ took the class Intro to Entrepreneurship, Jon Eckhardt, associate professor of management and human resources and executive director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, assigned a project to develop a new product. The advice Echhardt gave his class was, “Focus on problems that you have personally.” Michels, an undergraduate at the University …
NovoMoto, a startup from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is finishing its first 100 solar lighting installations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. NovoMoto LLC distributes the systems on a rent-to-own basis on a plateau about 80 kilometers from the capital, Kinshasa. After a $10 down payment and three years of paying $2.15 a week, the …
Four computer-science business ideas win — one already has customers Four projects created by computer-science students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison won a total of $12,000 in prizes in the computer science department’s NEST competition on April 6. “I’m excited for two reasons,” said organizer Jignesh Patel, professor of computer science. “The first-prize winner, Moonshot …
Selected from among 35 student teams and student-led start-up companies, LineLeap received the $15,000 Qualcomm grand prize in the 2018 Transcend Madison Innovation Competition, held April 4-5, 2018, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. LineLeap, which allows users of its website (lineleap.com) to bypass big crowds waiting to enter popular nightclubs—akin to the “fastpass” made …
Jon Eckhardt, executive director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship has received funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, to study how to improve how university entrepreneurial ecosystems, like that at UW-Madison, can drive economic growth.