Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a cornerstone of the business world. Up-and-coming entrepreneurs in the UW System are ready to do their part. Institutions are helping students get the tools and resources they need to transform their innovative ideas and entrepreneurial passion into market-ready products and services.
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New grant to advance entrepreneurial mindset in UW-Platteville engineers
October 19, 2021
After being accepted as a member in the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) last summer, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville was recently awarded a $290,000 grant to further its work in the Network […]
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Paw-fect idea: UW-Stout recent grad places in national Student Design Competition with pet product
September 1, 2021
Other art and design students participate in game jams, speak at Games for Change University of Wisconsin-Stout recent industrial design graduate Claire Dronen loves walking, running and being outdoors with […]
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UW-Platteville partnership in Prototyping Center helps bring ideas to life
August 31, 2021
New inventions poised to make an impact in a variety of fields are getting their start on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus, being designed, prototyped and tested by a UW-Platteville […]
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Mentors Matter: UW-Green Bay to offer mentorship certificate
August 3, 2021
Researchers have long established that employees with mentors report higher levels of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, compensation and promotion.* Entrepreneurs with mentors succeed in their startups at a higher success […]
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UW-Platteville alumna creates The Midwest Girl brand
July 26, 2021
Never forget where you come from is the ongoing theme running through The Midwest Girl, a Dubuque, Iowa T-shirt brand founded by University of Wisconsin-Platteville alumna Marissa (Droessler) Hoffmann and her […]
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UWM engineering alumna builds a business in sustainable stormwater management
June 21, 2021
Wisconsin is blessed with an abundance of water. We have so much water, we often end up with too much in the wrong places at the wrong time. This water […]
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UW-Parkside undergrad wins Wisconsin Big Idea Tournament
June 10, 2021
Gabrielle Richardson, a UW-Parkside pre-med undergraduate majoring in Spanish and Criminal Justice, is the winner of the Wisconsin Big Idea Tournament. The tournament was sponsored by UW System and the […]
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Madison’s tech sector booms, driven by UW innovation
May 24, 2021
The strong growth of Madison’s technology sector is drawing attention nationwide. The boom is fueled in part by UW–Madison, which provides cutting-edge research, entrepreneurial graduates and researchers, and a well-educated […]
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How seven UW-Whitewater students embarked on mission to combat vision loss in India and empower young women
May 12, 2021
In the photograph is a mirror. In the mirror, a man with a weathered face and hands wears a pair of eyeglasses and looks approvingly at his own reflection. The […]
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UW–Madison alum’s mask makes Time magazine’s list of best inventions of 2020
April 22, 2021
While studying abroad in Singapore as a University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineering undergraduate student in 2013, Max Bock-Aronson experienced heightened levels of air pollution firsthand. He also happened to be taking an […]