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Innovative Tissue Array Technology for High-Throughput Screening of Gene Expression

Stratagene tissue arrayslides offer further refinement of tissue array technology through optimizedtissue fixation and processing procedures that preserve tissue morphology,antigenicity of pr...

HotMasterAn innovative Hot Start/Cold Stop technology for better PCR* results

George Halley, Eppendorf 5 Prime, Inc., Boulder, CO, USA Vincent Prezioso, Brinkmann Instruments, BioSytems Application Lab, Westbury, NY Hot Start DNA polymerases have become very popular because of their conven...

In western Wisconsin, the innovation economy is growing

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Scott Converse, UW-Madison School of Business, on the innovation mind-set

, he addressed information techno...

Innovation expert speaks on the business-IT balancing act

. We asked him to share some of his insights into the ways business and information techno...

When innovation gets off track

What's caught my investigator's eye most recently is the flurry of news about Acela, the fast train service along the Eastern Co...

Drug innovation beats marketing, patents and mergers

While Genentech had revenues of $4.6 b...

Innovative Health Strategies near Milwaukee set to profit from Medicare expansion

Terri Bernacchi knows how to survive. The Milwaukee-area entrepreneur "bootstrapped" So now that IHS has begun to thrive, it is well positioned to help its pharmaceutical industry customers survive the massive new demands that...

Technology as the engine of business innovation

Forget about asking whether technology drives business or business drives technology. Stop worrying about whether or not technology is strategic. Silence all the rattling about how superior this technology is to that technology. In technology, as with love, there are certain questions that if you have to ask, you probably already know and dont like the answer. A more satisfying line of...

NanoRite Innovation Center opens with small science, big promise

NanoRite, part business incubator and...

Innovation featured in NE Wisconsin Roundtable

The Roundtable, which is free and open to the public, will center on innovation and a...

Changes to U.S. patent law must nurture our culture of innovation

Even during an era when America-bashing is back in vogue, there are certain things this country does well - and has always done well - much to the consternation of our rivals and com...

Who is minding the Innovation Gap?

Unofficially, it starts the summer season and with sparkling weather framing joyous graduates, family picnics, the...

Promega Corporation: Wisconsin's quiet innovator

Quiet to those outside the life-science realm, that is. Inside the privately held company's suburban Madison walls, it's anything but silent, as a constant churn of innovation takes place. Thu...

Abbott vs. Thailand has implications for innovation and access

story regarding its Kaletra AIDS drug and the conflict with the government of Thailand over patent protection and drug pricing. Some of you may regard this as a relatively isolated tiff between a single drug company and another developing country. Others consider this to be a...

Hewlett-Packard exec offers innovative counsel

does, but that didn't prevent a visiting HP executive from offering advice to privately held companies. Kristin Pugh, who is HP's director of software marketing for the Americas, advised small businesse...

Visions: Innovating like Madonna and Willie Nelson (and Steve Jobs)

Not just to manufacturers, who he will be addressing at the state's annual Manufacturing Matters conference</...

Visions: Benson touts embedded innovation

awards program, scheduled for May 21 in Madison. The program seeks to provide financial, mentoring, and other resources to women entrepreneurs who want to take their business...

UW System must remove barriers to innovation

There is no doubt that the UW System is one of the...

Fusion 2007: Innovation drives productivity in post 24x7 world

You can't work 25 hours a day. So several speakers at the Fusion 2007 CEO-CIO Symposium on Tuesday and Wednesday tried to drive home the point that "work smarter, not harder" is more than just an age-old mantra. Michael Knetter, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, summed it up: "When productivity grows, our standard of living goes up," Knetter said. To him, pr...

New CEO at TDS on creating a culture of innovation (Part 2)

CEO Dave Wittwer, he addressed the role information technology will play in transforming TDS from a phone company to a broadband provider. In this second part of the interview, he addresses the need to drive innovation, and explains why every TDS...

Wisconsin court affirms damages in Innogenetics, Abbott patent case

Madison, Wis. - The The Madison-based court affirmed the damage award to , a biopharmaceutical company based in Gent, Belg...

New CEO at TDS on tech innovation and leadership (Part 1)

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Creativity, innovation extend to municipalities

Century." At that time, many who attended thought it was a novel idea but did not put that much faith in it. My argument was that the horse-and-buggy taxes that focused on gasoline, cigarettes, and liquor were...

Sir Ken Robinson: Companies, kids "get" innovation, but K-12 doesn't nurture it

Robinson, a senior advisor to the in Los Angele...

TechnoJungle to highlight learning, innovation

Others call it the ambition gap. Whatever the label, they are referring to the dearth of American youth actively pursuing careers in the so-called STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, an ominous trend that, if left unchecked, will negatively impact the future of technol...

Innovation expert says Milwaukee has all the tools

Tornatzky, who will present his ideas here during a July 10 luncheon program of the Wisconsin Innovation Ne...

New book from former CDC CEO walks readers through innovation

MINNEAPOLIS - I recently interviewed Robert M. Price about his book "The Eye For Innovation: Recognizing Possibilities and Managing the Creative Enterprise". This column includes his comments about business, strategy, innovation and "the `C' word". "At its most basic level," he writes, "business strategy is about people." Not surprisingly, Price's people orientation is evident...

Manufacturers face challenges of innovation

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Manufacturing Matters starts with innovation

Manufacturing Matters, which kicked off on Monday at the Midwest Airlines Center, is the only statewide conference g...

A missing link in innovation

Business leaders see constant innovation as the only way to prevail against increasing global competition. Innovation has become one of the most popular business buzzwords. Books on innovation frequently become best sellers. Magazine editors like to create lists and give awards to the most innovative products and companies. Trend spotters say that "Innovation Coach"...

Beating back the bozos is an innovation must, says Kawasaki

The art of innovation is in large measure the ability to tune out negativity, author and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki said Friday to a gathering of southeastern Wisconsin technology professionals. Kawasaki, managing partner of and author of "Art of the Start" and several other business books, gave his 10-point "Art of Innovatio...

Peters: Innovation the only edge that remains for American business

Relentless and bold innovation is about the only card American businesses have left to play if they are to withstand the competitive threat posed by China, and chief information officers must take the lead in driving innovation, according to author and business innovator Tom Peters. Peters spoke on Wednesday of the merits of building an "innovation machine" to a gathering of Wisconsin bu...

Pilot fund brings capital to Eau Claire area innovations

Developed as a result of feedback from contestants in a regional business competition, the Family and Friends Innovation Development Fund will be established as a pilot project for the rem...

Cisco names Inacom most innovative partner

Inacom won based on its Extreme Wireless Makeover marketing campaign, which the company said drew 47 interested companies to apply and one, Dane Manufacturing, to be...

Commerce secretary Mary Burke on innovation, expansion and BIO

WTN recently checked in with Wisconsin secretary of commerce Mary Burke on some of the projects she's working on, including the upcoming WTN: Innovation is a word that comes up a lot in Wisconsi...

Brainstorming entrepreneur creates new innovation business

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Concentrated solar energy project wins Innovation Days prizes

Angie Franzke's concentrating solar collector won first place last Friday in both the Schoofs Prize for Creativity and the Tong Prototype Prize, winning $12,500. Instead of the mirror...

Third Wave licenses Innogenetics tech to settle lawsuit

The two companies' relationship goes back further. In Aril 2004 Third Wave forged a deal under which Innogenetics was an exclusive distributor...

Innovation Days will show off potential young entrepreneurs

The Schoofs Prize for Creativity and Tong Prototype Prize reward students for engineering new devices that aren't part of any curriculum. At this year's Innovation Days, undergr...