venture capital

Will Wisconsin's Conservative Legislators Put An End To Critical UW Science?

September 13, 2011 by The Political E...

And high-end jobs, and scads of high-tech businesses in and around Madison that go with it?

It sure does look that way.

The ideologues who run the legislature, who carry Scott Walker's water, who get their marching orders and talking points from right-wing talk shows and shrill advocacy groups are now hell-bent on closing Wisconsin's best, home-grown businesses and driving some of the state's most productive research scientists, life-giving disease fighters,  skilled grant-writers, bold venture capital funders, and fearless corporate innovators to Texas, California, South Korea and elsewhere overseas.

All in a twisted application of anti-abortion politics, and in a misdirected campaign against embyronic stem cell science, as a Wisconsin technology spokesman points out.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a paper that endorsed Walker for Governor, also wants the legislature initiative stopped:

Don't Venture into Oklahoma Territory

August 30, 2011 by Eye On WIsconsin

There is no doubt that Wisconsin must increase its share of venture capital dollars. The big question is exactly how we will accomplish that goal. Recently the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel put its unquestioning seal of approval on what is known as a "Fund of Funds" approach. Curiously missing from their endorsement was any mention of how to best safeguard public investment if that is the approach