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CTT - Bridging the states entrepreneurial gap

MADISON In the past, when entrepreneur Ken Schlager started a company, he looked to the west or east coasts for funding sources. This time around, Schlager is turning to the Center for Technology Transfer (CTT) in Madison for help as he launches a cutting-edge technology that applies electromagnetic fields to wastewater treatment. Schlager, a 75-year-old electrical engineer, has develop...

States need to be more "connectivity conscious"

Having a good infrastructure has always been important to the economic growth of a municipality as well as a state. The infrastructure has traditionally been viewed as transportation - rail, waterways, and air as well as highways, water, and power (electricity). Today, the definition of infrastructure must also include network infrastructure and the ability to have...

Madison biotech NimbleGen files for IPO; one of states' best-funded firms

The share price and number of shares are yet to be determined. J.P. Morgan Securities is taking a lead role, with Thomas Weisel Partners, Leerink-Swann & Company and Robert W. Baird & Co. participating. <...

States are the best laboratories for healthcare reform

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NIH '05 funding: Midwest has two states in Top 10

(NIH) annual list of spending in grant money by states. The NIH's annual budget, some $28 billion, not only funds research activities in its own institutions in the Washington, D.C./Maryland area, such as the <a href="http://www.cancer...

Quad/Graphics expands reach in western states

Quad, which offers printing products and services for commercial clients, purchased Craftsman Press West, a privately held commercial printer specializing in regionally distributed ma...

It's not exactly OPEC, but Midwest states are trading ideas on biofuels

Brendan Jordan of the Great Plains Institute...

TDS restates years of revenues, shows slight profit drop

Phone and data company TDS, also the corporate parent of U.S. Cellular, said its revenues for the last quarter were $1 billion, an increase over results from last year that it had to restate due to accounting problems. Net income for the quarter was $41.5 million, down from $43.3 million in the same quarter a year ago. TDS said in November 2005 it would have to restate some resu...

Midwest states in top 10 small-tech hotspots

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Wisconsin Angel Network is part of states focus on entrepreneurship

Five years ago, it wasnt necessary to use terms such as entrepreneur, venture capital or knowledge worker when talking about the state economy. That was before the recession of 2000, the war on terror and other global trends fundamentally changed the Wisconsin landscape. Seemingly overnight, a state that had relied for decades on the strength of its big companies discovered it had a shortage of s...

Wisconsin Economic Summits have given a hand to states progress

MADISON In his often-quoted book, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith laid down an economic theory that was the 18th century equivalent of todays (sanitized) bumper sticker: Stuff happens. Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can, capitalist Smith wrote in 1776. He generally neither intends...