We have kicked-off Winter week (3/25/19 - 4/22/19) - nine academic entrepreneurial teams have joined the teaching team (Avdeev, Thompson and Peterson) on a customer discovery journey. Check out the full list of teams below: BGK Drug Delivery (Medical College of Wisconsin) - drug...
Midwest-based Startup GenoPalate Raises Growth Funding Round Original story: http://wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=392830 Milwaukee -- GenoPalate, Inc., a genetics-based personal nutrition company founded by a Ph.D. geneticist and former medical college professor, announces that it has investor contractual commitments of more than $1,350, with scaling its operations and...
The original story: http://wisbusiness.com/index.Iml?Article=392707 This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” is with AkkeNeel Talsma, CEO and founder of Melius Outcomes. This Milwaukee-based startup has a quality improvement software platform for hospitals and other care facilities. It was built with technology developed at the University of Michigan. The...
The Fall 2018 program (10/22/18 - 11/19/18) was an exciting one for the teaching team because of new participating organizations: Northwestern University and Aurora Health, and several teaching experiments we had conducted. A cohort of eight teams has completed the Fall 2018 NSF Milwaukee I-Corps...
Original Article: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=190921&org=NSF The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded eight NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) sites to increase participation and promote inclusion of underrepresented populations in the National Innovation Network. I-Corps sites provide infrastructure, resources, networking and training to move scientific discoveries from university labs to the...
WERCBench Labs has partnered with The Center for Technology Commercialization, The Commons and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's I-Corps Site for the fall 2016 program. The organization is looking for more businesses to partner with for future programs that will help participating startups build and test...
Fall'16 teams (cohort #5): Composite Works (UWM) - advanced carbon fiber composites for aerospace, transportation and infrastructure AIM (UWM) - technology enabled tools for designing spaces ItusONE (Marquette)- wearable technology to reduce risk of injury in the construction industry NanoRED (MCW) - precision delivery of cancer therapeutics Airway Reflux Treatment (MCW) - novel pepsin inhibitors...
NSF I-Corps Site of Southeastern Wisconsin has wrapped-up its first year with three amazing cohorts of 27 research teams representing all five partnering Universities. Teams have conducted more that 870 customer interviews. Teaching team delivered 15 three-hour workshops on customer discovery (Lean Launch methodology) and...
Dave Clark calls them “unexpected writers” – technicians, engineers and other employees who, with little or no training, must produce documents and reports. Their poor writing costs companies money. “Engineers or IT people or scientists will write these proposals,” said Clark, an associate dean of humanities...
Starting a business and doing academic research both involve experimentation and gathering data. So why don’t more university researchers participate in startup companies? They need to make a different kind of discovery by probing the minds of potential customers and businesspeople. Making these vital conversations happen is...