After winning the Governor’s Business plan contest in 2018, Novomoto has big plans for expansion in 2019 and beyond. The company provides rent-to-own solar electrical systems for families in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and …
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Innovate Network aims to improve support for aspiring Badger entrepreneurs
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 …
SBIR Ready Now Accepting Applications
The Center for Technology Commercialization offers a program for faculty, post-docs and early career scientists that are new to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant program. Now accepting letters of interest, SBIR Ready is an …
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 …