Supported by campus and affiliate partners and coordinated by Discovery to Product (D2P), the Innovate Network makes it easier for faculty, staff and students with great ideas to find the resources they need to develop …
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Apply by May 15 for Summer Startup Trainings
UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product (D2P) is accepting applications for two summer programs that help campus innovators bring their ideas for groundbreaking products and services to the marketplace, Innovation to Market (I2M) and Igniter. All D2P …
Madison’s Blexx Technology Takes the Sting Out of Hypodermic Needle Disposal
Noted: What started out as a passion project for Erin Tenderholt as a sophomore business student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison soon became a business with Blexx Technology. Now in her senior year, Tenderholt is …
#UWChangesLives: Changing the world can begin with an invention disclosure
Throughout April, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) will host a three-part mini-series on technology commercialization and industry partnerships. Ahead of those events, Norman Drinkwater, Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, sat down …
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 …
UW-Madison spinoff Atrility’s device improves pediatric heart rhythm monitoring
The mother of invention visited Nicholas Von Bergen while he was caring for a newborn in the pediatric intensive care unit at American Family Children’s Hospital. Without the recent heart surgery, the infant faced a …
UW alum masterminding next generation data storage: A solution to the datapocalypse?
CATALOG, a Boston company co-founded by a recent UW–Madison Ph.D., is preparing to demonstrate the world’s fastest, densest DNA-based data-warehouse.