lure in Biological Technology

Doyle, WARF announce partnership to lure stem cell companies

Milwaukee, Wis. - In a move designed to give Wisconsin a competitive advantage over other states, Gov. Jim Doyle has announced a partnership agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation guaranteeing all companies that conduct stem cell research at non-profit and academic institution...

Conference to Turn Scientists of Color into PA-Based Entrepreneurs Set for November

...North Carolina are among the many fierce domestic competitors -- let alone places such as Ireland and Japan. While offering enticements and credits to lure businesses is a standard approach, promoting and engaging more scientific entrepreneurs of color is an innovative way to secure new talent and discove...

FierceBiotech Names NanoBio Corporation as One of the 'Fierce 15' Biotech Companies of 2008

...g gains in the way that vaccines are developed and manufactured. The data look promising, a phase III looms, partnerships beckon, and then there's the lure of a possible IPO in the not-too-distant future. For a nano-bio company, NanoBio is well ahead of the pack." NanoBio's lead treatments are topical l...

Athletics, pop culture and the arts

...at Wisconsin has what it takes to retain a young, motivated work force. Statewide brain drain statistics certainly dont show it yet, but Wisconsin can lure and keep creative people. Event One: The Fox Cities Summit on the Arts. In his 2002 book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Professor Richard Fl...

JohnLets Get Serious - Manufacturing is a critical part of the Wisconsin economy

...ets, such as biotech. Yes, there are opportunities in these new fields, but it would be a mistake to abandon high value manufacturing for the elusive lure of high technology industries and jobs that may or may not emerge. Equally important, do we, as a state, have the resources and the willingness to inv...

Double header for research dollars from Washington

...ime before some of these companies decide to open up an office here. We have had some inquiries but nothing has opened at this point. Cohn said the lure of locating in Madison would have more to do with being near the people involved in research as opposed to logistics or easy access to the stem cells ...

Florida: Investing Heavily in Biotechnology - Governor uses state funds to attract large biotech companies

...e providing upwards of $500 million in grants and tax credits to Scripps to lure it to Florida and this location. For those of you who know Scripps in S...of his selling points to Floridas legislature for approving this package to lure Scripps, Gov. Bush in the Herald article cited the expectation that this wo...

For Now, Michigan Can Celebrate $150 Million Entrepreneurial VC Fund

...l LaFaive, director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Mich., was quoted as criticizing the use of a guarantee to lure investors: "What we have here is essentially an unbudgeted liability because we can't anticipate the losses that could occur," he said. In other words...

On Location at BIO 2003

...d a 100 the anniversary Harley-Davidson motorcycle parked in the corner. OK, that has next to nothing to do with biotechnology, but its a great way to lure people into our aisle. Gov. Jim Doyle dropped by today to deliver what he characterized as a Knute Rockne pep talk to the 75-member Wisconsin dele...

DEMOletter's Summer Reading List

...th violence and scantily clad women. But a recent report by an MSNBC columnist says that change is coming. The game developer community is trying to lure in women developers to create more games that would appeal to women. One developer says she's focused on creating a Greek myth inspired game. In the g...

State investment incentives aimed at luring angels to start-up companies

... MADISON Like most states, Wisconsin has long offered specialized tax credits to expand or lure traditional businesses, but it has lacked credit programs aimed at leveraging seed capital for the states technology start-ups. Thats about to chan...

Tech Council passes E-Learning efforts for Northern Wisconsin

... an attractive quality of life, an educated work force and a commitment to growing a new economy. In time, the creation of an E-Learning cluster could lure back natives of Northern Wisconsin who left for technology jobs in larger cities but who wish they could return home to work, Johnson said....

Above par: Playing 18 holes on Wisconsin's high-tech course

...communications companies doing business there. No. 4, Par 4, 493 yards, Fairway to Heaven. Wisconsin's quality of life and environment is a major lure for high-tech workers and companies, especially for those looking to escape the hassles of the coasts without forfeiting the culture or recreation. ...

Referendum may pull California to the forefront of stem cell research

... only physician in the Wisconsin Legislature and a proponent of embryonic stem cell research, feels Proposition 71's towering monetary incentives will lure scientists to the West Coast. Developmental biologist James Thomson in his Primate Research Center lab. Photo by Jeff Miller. It sends a very da...

Tech Digest: whats moving in the Midwest (10/27/04)

...ommunity leaders attended the ceremony, hosted by Fitchburg Technology Campus and Ruedebusch, the partners for the project. The building will serve to lure technology industries into our region, said Gary Wolter, president of Madison Gas & Electric. Doyle welcomes pharmaceutical company to Wisconsin ...

James Thomson plans to stay in Madison to study genesis of stem cells

...son plans to stay in Wisconsin for now despite the lure of sizable funding, he said. His talk on Monday...benefitting the child, he said. The golden-state lure This election year, stem cells have influenced f...s other than money keeping him in Madison, but the lure of funding could prove significant for people hopi...

Talent shortage? Cmon.

... is recession-proof. Simply put, regardless of the size of a person's retirement portfolio, folks don't remain employed any longer than they must. The lure of the golf course and loft-living is magnetic and irrefutable. Further, many companies, in an effort to cut costs, continue to offer attractive early...

Post-January, tech entrepreneurs have reasons to be depressed

...o invest decided to launch a competing wiki company. Later, he announced $5.2 million from big-name venture capital firms (perhaps all the better to lure away employees). A hot rivalry has ensued. In the California of John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Hopalong Cassidy, a faux investor who instead steals id...

Innovation prize-winner would help firefighters get out alive

...frame of reference, a map of the fire." The Tong Prototype Award for best working model went to Sean McHone, creator of a remote-controlled fishing lure called the RoboMouse. The lure, designed to look like a small rodent that big game fish prey on, can be maneuvered into weedy areas that are difficult...

Phishing and pharming: Is your personal identity being harvested?

...y wanted was to steal credit card and bank information. Phishing, also called brand spoofing, refers to phony e-mails or pop-up messages created to lure victims to fake Web sites, which appear identical to the site you are familiar with. The idea is that the bait is thrown out with the knowledge that m...

House may vote soon to relax stem-cell restrictions

...alled for the state to pursue a multi-billion dollar stem cell funding effort, and some local researchers and politicians worry that such a push could lure top researchers to the West Coast. "This will allow Wisconsin to play on much more equal footing to compete in the area of stem-cell research," Mil...

Report: Wisconsin still lags in college degrees held by workforce, leads elsewhere

...onomy to outsiders. Still said that it is not a matter of keeping students in the state that Wisconsin has fallen behind in, but a failure to properly lure other college-educated workers to replace those graduates who do leave. "We don't have a brain-drain problem so much as we have a brain-gain problem."...

Kanavas thinks personal ID theft bill will pass this year

...ever more sophisticated scams to dupe consumers into revealing their personal financial information online. For example, phishing scams use e-mails to lure people to bogus Web sites, the goal being to convince unwary Web surfers to type in their credit card or bank account numbers or basically put them o...

Midwest health care technology luring greater investment focus

...nture capital markets as another reason for the heightened activity. "They're no longer simply focusing on the coasts," he said. He credits efforts to lure investor attention here and efforts to link venture capitalists with innovators for giving investors a wider arena of activity. Forty-seven (47) na...

Does location matter anymore?

...One of those companies, YackPack , set up camp in Santa Rosa, about two hours north of Silicon Valley. Founder B.J. Fogg told me that it was tough to lure engineers to Sonoma County, but once they had a look around they were happy to settle down and stay awhile. In recent weeks Ive talked to companies...

Job hunting the Air Google way

...of consumers. Improvements in the technology to capture and deliver sharper images will further encourage the display of goods and powerful signage to lure flying consumers to come down for a closer look. There will be a marked increase in demand for employees with specific skillsets with this new twist o...

Wisconsin to show up at BIO in numbers

... Medical Device Association. CEO Douglas Tucker indicated that the opportunity to present information about products and services to new faces was the lure to attend this year's conference. "It's not really our customers that are there," he said. "It's more of an attempt to represent the association and f...

State commits $500,000 to boost bachelor's degrees

...athon County and UW-Marshfield/Wood County two-year campuses. A Baccalaureate Completion Project at UW-Superior , which will receive funding to lure back 50 students who left campus with junior standing between the fall of 2000 and the present. The campus will partner with UW Colleges' online-degre...

RedPrairie exec calls for 50 percent tax cut

...are system "by clearly giving its recipients a past-due notice." Creative Milwaukee Jazwiec, who thus far has rebuffed Milwaukee's attempts to lure RedPrairie to the city, also called on Milwaukee to become more committed to developing a creative culture. "I want Milwaukee to focus less on basebal...

An upside down view of the future

...current workforce more productive, keep people in the workforce longer, and lure back people that have left - both those out of the labor market as well as ...ve a plan for retaining and attracting older workers? What are you doing to lure and motivate ambitious and agile younger workers? What steps have you taken...

Locations must have connectivity to be viable

...e still counting on copper-based DSL lines to get into the connectivity game are sadly mistaken. The company in Virginia did not tout DSL in order to lure those data centers and 1,500 new jobs to their municipality. Do you think that having DSL is going to make your place any more attractive? Not in toda...

CellCura could start an invasion of stem cell firms

...he UW-Madison campus. The state also has created financial incentives to lure stem cell companies. The most recent step was an agreement with the Wiscon...s invested $3 billion in stem cell research, yet Wisconsin is doing more to lure and create stem cell companies. Neis cited the state's scientific talent...

ZyStor seeks to raise $15M for clinical trials

...n the development path." Typically, the existing syndicate of investors will participate in subsequent rounds, and the beneficiary will attempt to lure additional investors. ZyStor's next chance to impress financiers will come April 10 and 11 at InvestMidwest, which is expected to attract up to 300 of...

Visions: Matheys says CIO role is good training for executive suite

... in a variety of executive capacities in the Twin Cities, including 18 years with the medical technology company Medtronic . Schneider was able to lure Lemke out of retirement, and Matheys can't imagine hiring a CIO that does not possess some knowledge and understanding of business. Judy didn't nec...

Georgia stem cell company likely to stay put

... Madison, Wis. - It appears that Wisconsin has failed in its bid to lure a Georgia stem cell company to Madison. Aruna Biomedical , a maker of neural stem cell kits for researchers, apparently has found the financial ba...