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• Runner tracking app wins inaugural Qualcomm Wireless prize April 29, 2011 A smartphone application that will allow running race observers to keep track of particular runners in real time has won $10,000 and top prize at the inaugural University of Wisconsin-Madison Qualcomm Wireless Innovation Prize.
• Five alumni receive Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards April 27, 2011 Five University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni were honored April 26 for their outstanding entrepreneurial achievements.
• University biomedical emphasis a big economic winner for Wisconsin April 19, 2011 As Wisconsin struggles with unemployment and anemic growth, a group of health-related university spin-offs continues to benefit from UW-Madison's profound depth in biological sciences, medicine and engineering.
• UW-Madison engineers help Resilient Technologies reinvent the wheel April 6, 2011 In military combat, vehicle tires are critical, as blown tires can mean troops are stranded in dangerous situations. Wausau, Wis.-based Resilient Technologies is working on a non-pneumatic tire with a honeycomb-like design, which can't be shot out and could save lives.
• Seminar focuses on market research for early-stage companies April 5, 2011
• WARF Gilson seminar tonight examines legal basics for starting a company March 30, 2011 Speakers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, which offers startup businesses the pro bono legal services of UW law students supervised by faculty and private sector attorneys, will discuss key legal issues confronting entrepreneurs at this evening's Gilson Bootstrapping event. The program begins at 5 p.m. today (March 30) in the Town Center of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.
• WARF Gilson panel focuses on early-stage financing for technology firms March 23, 2011 A panel of experts will discuss funding opportunities available to young firms for advancing the research and development of their technologies at the WARF Gilson Bootstrapping seminar being held Wednesday, March 23.
• 100-Hour Challenge winners named Feb. 28, 2011 A dress made of rubber gloves, a xylophone constructed from PVC pipes and a coffee chiller fashioned out of discarded lab equipment were just three examples of entrepreneurial creativity submitted in this year's Wiscontrepreneur 100-Hour Challenge, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Corporate Relations.
• Students partner with business to launch iPhone app, highlight Wisconsin-made products Feb. 23, 2011 What if you could enter a grocery store, and with the tap of your finger, determine which products were made in your state? Thanks to three UW-Madison graduate students and their partnership with a local grocery store, you now can.
• Electronic stent-deployment system wins top prize at 2011 Innovation Days Feb. 14, 2011 A system that could widely expand stent treatments for patients with diseased arteries won the top prize and $10,000 in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, one of a pair of competitions that make up Innovation Days, an event that rewards University of Wisconsin-Madison students for innovative and marketable ideas.
• WARF debuts Gilson Bootstrapping Series at Discovery Town Center on Jan. 25 Jan. 24, 2011 Allen Dines of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Office of Corporate Relations will be the first speaker featured in WARF's new Gilson Bootstrapping Series. He will discuss the wide variety of resources available to new entrepreneurs, or to those just thinking about starting a business, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 25.
• UW-Madison to again celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week Nov. 10, 2010 The University of Wisconsin-Madison - along with more than 1,500 organizations worldwide - will mark Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Nov. 15-21.
• UW-Madison entrepreneurship programs make top 25 list Sept. 22, 2010 The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was recognized by The Princeton Review for Entrepreneur magazine as having one of the top 25 entrepreneurship programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in the country.
• New businesses get a boost from entrepreneurial law clinic June 14, 2010 The UW Law School's Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic has served up advice and assistance to more than 40 clients since it was launched last fall.
• Plan to advance wound care treatment takes top prize in Burrill competition April 26, 2010
• Engineering students win Climate Challenge at UW-Madison April 22, 2010 A device that would help provide electricity efficiently and at low cost in rural areas of developing countries took the top prize - $50,000 - this week in a student competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for innovative ideas to counteract climate change.
• UW-Madison students face off in expanded business plan competition April 22, 2010 From high-tech wound care and eco-friendly apparel to social media software firms and biofuels, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are pursuing solutions to everyday problems as part of the annual G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition at the Wisconsin School of Business.
• Theory meets practice in fourth annual entrepreneurial bootcamp March 17, 2010 During the week of June 20, the Wisconsin School of Business will direct the fourth annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp for graduate students in physical and life sciences, law and engineering, among others.
• Students awarded scholarships for entrepreneurship March 8, 2010 Jeffrey Vinokur knows a thing or two about being self-taught.
• 100-Hour Challenge winners to receive awards in entrepreneurship class March 1, 2010 The light bulbs have been turned on, the vacuum bags have been cut up and the hoses have been connected.