As the UpStart program celebrates 10 years, its founders and participants look back on how it all began and why it continues to redefine what successful entrepreneurship looks like. When…
WARF Advances in Clean Tech | May 2023
WARF ADVANCES Top licensing prospects from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Using Power Plant & Industrial Wastes to Sequester CO2 into High Purity Products A team of civil and environmental engineers…
UW entrepreneurial awardees model innovation, shape Wisconsin’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
Four outstanding innovators have received the 2023 Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards. Established in 2011, the awards recognize individuals with ties to the University of Wisconsin–Madison who further the Wisconsin Idea through…
Groundbreaking: CDIS building to foster high-tech innovation, collaboration
In 1957, newly commissioned 2nd Lt. John Morgridge was installed at a Dover Air Force Base tabulating center alongside the latest in computing technology: a 25-ton, 6,000-square-foot Honeywell DATAmatic 1000….
WARF Advances in Food and Ag | April 2023
WARF ADVANCES Top licensing prospects from the University of Wisconsin-Madison “Natural” Antioxidants Prolong Storage Life of Meat This method, which uses very low amounts of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) enzymes in combination…
Weather station network to expand across Wisconsin, aiding farmers and others
A new era for weather data in Wisconsin is on the horizon, thanks to an effort at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wisconsin weather has become increasingly more unpredictable and extreme…
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…
WARF Advances in Engineering and Computer Science | March 2023
WARF ADVANCES Top licensing prospects from the University of Wisconsin-Madison New, Lightweight Material to Protect Against Bullets and Other High-Speed Impacts A UW engineering physics team is using carbon nanotubes…