Stories indexed under: Entrepreneurship

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• UW-Madison’s entrepreneurship program rated among nation’s best Sept. 11, 2008 The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has one of the nation's top programs in entrepreneurship, according to a survey just published in the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
• New ‘urban research park’ offers jolt of electricity to Madison high-tech startups Aug. 4, 2008 After three decades of almost exponential commercial growth on Madison's west side, the University Research Park (URP) will pursue an opportunity to sink roots downtown with an innovative "urban research park" targeting high-technology entrepreneurs.
• Undergraduate entrepreneurs create successful business in Madison Aug. 4, 2008 The new urban research park in downtown Madison will have great potential for budding student entrepreneurs. This story on Hardin Design and Development is one of a growing number of examples of students creating their own technology-based businesses.
• Theory meets practice in second annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp July 21, 2008 This week (July 20-25), the Wisconsin School of Business will direct the second annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (WEB) for graduate students in chemistry, biology, law and engineering, among others.
• UW-Madison builds new entrepreneurship learning community May 13, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison will launch a new living and learning community next fall for students interested in entrepreneurship.
• Notable graduates: Brandon Gador — Co-Founder of Powered Green LLC May 13, 2008 Brandon Gador, a business student majoring in marketing, didn't like the prospect of graduating into a stuffy desk job. So, when the opportunity to enroll in Professor Phil Kim's courses in entrepreneurship and venture creation arose, he jumped at the chance, and throughout the process, developed a feasible idea for a business with a UW-Madison peer.
• Notable graduates: Stacy Knuth — Paving way for future Wisconsin entrepreneurs May 13, 2008 As marketing and supply chain management graduate Stacy Knuth heads for a promising future at Proctor & Gamble, her campus commitment to service will be cherished by UW-Madison students for generations to come.
• Notable graduates: Abdalla Saad — On the cusp of new biotech startup May 13, 2008 Many scientists are content to spend their entire careers in the laboratory, chasing new insights into the way the world works. Not Saad. Though he admires the scientists he works with as a research specialist in the School of Medicine and Public Health, Saad has dreams of launching a biotechnology company some day.
• Engineering senior turns her hobby into cash May 12, 2008 It started off pretty simply. Danielle McIntosh, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior graduating in biological systems engineering, was intrigued by a friend who brought his hula hoop over to her apartment. She and her roommates would try out practicing with the hoop, and she found herself thinking about it even when her friend wasn’t around.
• Alumni ‘fired up’ about latest innovation May 8, 2008 After selling the first company he founded for more than $1 million, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering alum Chad Sorenson wasn't sure what to do next.
• UW-Madison students again rise to the entrepreneurial challenge April 29, 2008 For the second straight year, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison flexed their entrepreneurial muscle as they turned surplus materials into new creations.
• Veggies in the sky: Grocery business takes top honors in Burrill contest April 24, 2008 In an era of globe-trotting food, consumers sometimes need an atlas to navigate the produce aisle. But two University of Wisconsin-Madison students have an intriguing idea for how to get vegetables on grocery shelves without the jet lag. Their solution? Look up.
• Off the hook: Stronger soft-plastic fishing lure reels in raves Feb. 21, 2008 Working with University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering and business school faculty and students, a Wisconsin entrepreneur has perfected a fiber-reinforced fishing lure that may prevent millions of pounds of toxic plastics from polluting waters nationwide.
• Numerous entrepreneurial events planned for semester Jan. 30, 2008
• Students flex entrepreneurial muscle in competition May 1, 2007 What do a discarded industrial fan, a recycled wastebasket, a surplus fishing reel, and a set of drawers from an old lab desk have to do with entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus?
• UW researcher and spinoff company to receive MIT technology awards March 6, 2007 The MIT Club of Wisconsin, a state association for alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is recognizing a University of Wisconsin-Madison influenza researcher and a bioscience spinoff company on Friday at its annual Technology Achievement Awards banquet.
• National Entrepreneurship Week recognized on campus Feb. 21, 2007 The Office of Corporate Relations (OCR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a number of programs for Entrepreneurship Week USA, a national effort to inspire and encourage young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice and to celebrate America's unique culture of inventiveness.