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Say Cheese! Business growth linked back to training and expertise from UW-Madison.
Learn how a professional development course from UW-Madison helped to shape the growth of Green County cheesemaker Klondike Cheese.
UW students solve local problems in summer Makerspace course
Walk by Union South and you might hear the faint buzz of power tools. It’s the hum of creativity in the UW Makerspace next door in Wendt Commons, where students design and build whatever they …
A new name, and a new director. The Office of Business Engagement
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.
UW startups and spinoffs win awards, including top honor, at Governor’s Business Plan Contest
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.
A wild Wisconsin yeast is at the core of growing partnerships between UW–Madison and businesses
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.
Research collaboration with American Family Insurance highlights UW’s ability to tackle business challenges.
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.
Badger entrepreneurial spirit shines bright
Check out this impressive group of UW–Madison students whose innovations, ideas and products will change the shape of the world we live in.
Entrepreneur Class project becomes career for graduating UW–Madison undergraduate
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. …
Student startup completing 100 solar setups in rural Africa
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 …