Introducing Innovate

UW‒Madison’s new Innovate Network compiles education, funding, news, and events for faculty, staff, and student inventors and entrepreneurs. Maintained by Discovery to Product, Innovate is the front door to locate resources that help UW–Madison problem …

New project links Madison, Boston scientists

An invention designed to transform how and where high-powered research microscopes are deployed — and who gets to use them — will make its way from Madison this spring to the fertile biology labs of …

The role of the student engineer in medicine and innovation

Noted: Discussion of the rise of biomedical engineering departments (BMEs) at universities, referencing linkages between the BerbeeWalsh Prototype Pathway at the Morgridge Institute for Research, BME design courses at UW–Madison, patenting and licensing support from …

Drawing venture capital in an agtech startup

Noted: Kieran Furlong with Discovery to Product is also a partner with Finistere Ventures, where he makes venture capital investment decisions. Furlong appeared on the Salt of the Earth podcast to share insights on criteria …

NIH redoubling support in search for new antibiotics

The National Institutes of Health is redoubling support for UW-Madison researchers scouring the world for new sources of antibiotics. This comes as more than two million drug-resistant infections are reported every year, according to the …