Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Bill Murphy, Director of the new Forward BIO Initiative share a moment after the announcement of the $750,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. Learn how this initiative aims to advance Wisconsin’s Position as a national leader in biomanufacturing.
Partnerships
MERLIN Mentors celebrates 10 years and countless startup success stories
Learn firsthand how this program has helped to guide entrepreneurs, boosting their potential and ultimately helping grow the economy.
Chancellor Blank helps to welcome Exact Sciences to University Research Park
Exciting growth for University Research Park as Exact Sciences breaks ground on their new headquarters. Learn how this campus, home to many UW spinoffs, is focused on the future.
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.
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.
New outposts from Lands’ End, Oshkosh Corp. reveal closer corporate relationships with UW–Madison
Last spring, in one of his first moves after becoming CEO of Lands’ End in Dodgeville, Jerome Griffith met with UW–Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank to discuss ties to the university. Lands’ End CEO Jerome Griffith …
Radar adds technological twist to age-old cranberry counting process
UW–Madison engineers have invented a device that automates the process of counting cranberries on the bush and estimating the harvest. The sheer labor involved in counting cranberries the old-fashioned way prompted Ocean Spray’s Ben Tilberg to work with researchers in the electrical and computer engineering department to pursue a more efficient, technologically advanced method.
UW entrepreneurial pipeline lands Lactic Solutions in biofuels marketplace
When Jim Steele thinks back over the last seven years, from the early research on biofuels, followed by a dream of moving Lactic Solutions LLC technology to the marketplace, and now the acquisition of the …
Shaping the future of farming: The Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center to serve as an incubator for agricultural improvement
In December 2016, Monsanto donated a $10 million, 100,000-square-foot facility—a warren of labs, greenhouses and growth chambers—to UW–Madison to become the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center (WCIC). WCIC leaders hope the center will add to its string of plant biotechnology achievements as one of just a few public facilities in the country dedicated to plant transformation.
UW-Madison hosts businesses from around Wisconsin and beyond
Representatives from 88 businesses visited the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus Wednesday to learn how to get ahead by tapping UW–Madison resources. Some of the attendees already work with the university to recruit employees, partner on research, or license products and processes, while others are just getting started.