Reaching a TIP-ping Point

The College of Letters & Science hosts the assistant director of the National Science Foundation’s Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Directorate. Each year, hundreds of UW-Madison researchers in STEM disciplines are making important discoveries, and they’re …

Achieving gender equity in tech transfer

New research guides university tech transfer offices like WARF to cultivate women inventors Jennifer Gottwald, director of licensing at WARF, wants as many UW-Madison inventors as possible to disclose their ideas to WARF and pursue …

What’s the Big Idea?

What’s the matter with kids today? Nothing whatsoever, to judge from an event called “Entrepreneurons.” As part of the two-year-old Innovate Week, four poised, personable young alumni gathered in the Discovery Building last October to …

Two UW seniors develop new way to sublease

This past summer, University of Wisconsin seniors Isaac Lee and Vinesh Janarthanan interned in Texas and California respectively. Both students found that it was quite difficult to find appropriately priced short-term housing for their time …

Underdogs Fetch a Golden Opportunity

Successful business ideas come from all different corners of the world. Typically, the ones coming up with these ideas do so after years of experience and knowledge, but there are a select few who find …