Featured Programs
This 5-week course focuses on matching your innovation to a viable market. Learn more »
This 8-week course helps you develop and validate your startup's business model. Learn more »
Outreach programs offered with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) provide an opportunity to learn from startup founders and business leaders from around the world. Learn more »
Innovation and Commercialization Specialists
Aimee Arnoldussen, PhD
Cognitive neuroscientist with expertise in medical and assistive technologies. Start-up, healthcare, research funding and FDA.
Abram Becker
Expertise in commercial strategy for pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices, and diagnostics. Start-up, non-profit, & Fortune 500 experience.
Cecily Brose
Expertise in consumer product development and commercialization. Led innovation platforms in the food industry.
David Ertl
Product management and strategy expertise in information technology. Silicon Valley, start-up, and Fortune 500 experience.
Kieran Furlong
Expertise in early-stage company building, venture capital, cleantech, agtech and manufacturing. VC investor & start-up veteran.
Upcoming Programs and Events from the Innovate Network
Forward Festival
Now in its 11th year, Forward Fest is the state's flagship celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship for business folks, nerds, social impact innovaters, foodies, hackers, entrepreneurs, creatives, problem-solvers, community supporters and more from across the Midwest. Events August 13-20.
- September
- September 23
- Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunch via WebExSarada, Assistant Professor in Management and Economics/Co-Founder Elektrifi TechnologiesSeptember 23, 12:15 pm
Come join us via WebEx to meet Sarada, co-founder of Elektrifi Technologies. Her research is focused on the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation. She will talk about starting a business as well as the challenges faced as a non-US citizen. She graduated from UW and received her Ph.D. from UCSD. She was a faculty fellow at Duke, a litigation consultant in SF and visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board in DC. RSVP to lisa.collins@wisc.edu.
- September 30
- Distinguished Entrepreneurs LunchRobert Phillips, CFA, and Global Director of Machine Learning & Data Science at TIBCO SoftwareSeptember 30, 12:15 pm, Gordon Dining and Event Center
Come join us via WebEx to meet Robert Phillips of TIBCO Software where he works with Fortune 100 business and IT executives to help transform their companies using data and analytics. Robert taught himself to code in Python and immersed himself in a data science program. He is a CFA® charterholder and earned his BBA degree at the Wisconsin School of Business by double majoring in finance and economics. RSVP to lisa.collins@wisc.edu.
News from the Innovate Network
‘Hands-on’ makerspace summer series reaches students remotely
In late spring 2020, the engineers who run the University of Wisconsin-Madison Makerspace began contemplating how to continue delivering the facility’s signature hands-on seminars and activities to students who were now learning at a distance. They turned to methods they know well: designing and prototyping. But in this case, rather than 3D printing a part … Continued
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State’s early stage firms raised record dollars in 2019; total deals increased slightly
The latest edition of “The Wisconsin Portfolio” shows more than $450 million was raised by the state’s early stage companies in 2019, a record for any single year in Wisconsin. The report by the Wisconsin …
WARF/UW–Madison among top 10 universities granted U.S. utility patents in 2019
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which manages intellectual property for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has just been ranked ninth for U.S. utility patents granted in 2019, according to the annual Top 100 …