• First Look Investor Forums: Equity investment opportunities based on UW research
  A bimonthly invitational meeting for those venture capital and angel investors specifically focused on early-stage private-equity opportunities. This forum serves as a venue for early-stage and concept-stage UW entrepreneurs to discuss their research and preliminary business concepts with representatives from the venture-capital community to gain feedback on how to convert technology innovations into fundable business value propositions. Qualified investors and faculty researchers should contact Allen Dines,  (608) 262-2797 , assistant director, to inquire about an invitation to one of these forums.
• The Office of Corporate Relations CEO Breakfast Series
  This invitational event for chief executives of emerging UW-Madison-affiliated companies is held every two months. This venue provides peer-level networking and support for CEOs whose companies are in early stages of establishing their business operations. Participating CEOs typically represent recently formed companies and companies with fewer than 15 employees that are working to develop and launch their products. CEOs of early-stage companies that have employees and business operations should contact Allen Dines,  (608..., assistant director, to inquire about participation in this breakfast series.
• The Student Business Incubator
  If you are a student and you are looking for space to start or launch your business idea, or if you seek dedicated office space for a current business you founded as a student; the Student Business Incubator can help! Apply now for office space for the coming fall from September 2009 - August 2010. Note that application deadline is April 10. Please send any questions to StudentBusinessIncubator@gmail.com
  
  Student Business Incubator
  Third floor in the new Student Services Tower
  333 East Campus Mall - Suite 3101
  Madison, WI 53715

Application Online NOW - www.uwsife.org/sbi

• OCR Consultations and Referrals
  One-on-one assistance to faculty, staff and students considering a startup business. Consultation topics range from issues related to mixing a university position with time commitments to a new business, identifying the key steps in starting a business, finding business services firms that can assist, and identifying sources of capital and management talent. Contact Allen Dines at OCR for more information or to schedule a meeting.
• MERLIN Mentors 
  MERLIN Mentors is a new organization created to formalize the mentoring
  process and to increase the number of entrepreneurs in southern Wisconsin.
  Are you an entrepreneur interested in taking your early stage business to the
  next level? Do you seek solid advice in commercializing a concept, process,
  or technology as part of a new venture? If so, hen you should find out more
  about MERLIN Mentors, a collaboration of the Wisconsin Alumni Research
  Foundation (WARF), the University Research Park and UW-Madison's Office of
  Corporate Relations.
  
• Short Courses
  The School of Business Technology Business Development Institute (TBDI) provides seminars, counseling and networking focused on the special needs of high-technology companies. The TBDI offers new innovative courses in “Leadership in Technology Companies.” Additionally, the UW-Madison Small Business Development Center offers a broader line of management education, training, counseling and networking opportunities for small-business owners and managers.
• Licensing Assistance
  Since 1925, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has served the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientific community by patenting the discoveries of UW-Madison researchers and licensing these technologies to leading companies in Wisconsin, the United States and worldwide. WARF licensing managers can assist those considering startup businesses with information about and guidance on procedures for acquiring a license to WARF technology.
• Business Planning and Analysis
  The Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE) Program and the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the School of Business are dedicated to teaching, research and services related to entrepreneurial management, and enterprise development to include an MBA concentration program in entrepreneurship. In the WAVE program, students focus on selected companies through a year-long business planning practicum. The Weinert Applied Ventures invests in early-stage companies where students have been involved.
• Business Incubation
  The University Research Park (URP) is a unique research and technology park, whose primary mission is to encourage partnerships between businesses and university researchers. Located three miles west of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the University Research Park is the home of 107 companies employing nearly 4,000 people. At the MG&E Innovation Center within the park, more than 30 companies are currently housed in a facility designed especially for startup businesses.

• Urban Research Park

• Opening in 2009 the Urban Research Park is 6,000 square feet of space in the former Marquip Building, located at 1245 East Washington Ave.  The incubator space is targeting high tech startups coming out of the University. Potential tenants are encouraged to apply now, please contact inquiries@ocr.wisc.edu for more information.

• The Initiative for Studies in Technology and Entrepreneurship (INSITE), School of Business
  The Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship (INSITE) seeks to enhance the University of Wisconsin’s impact on technology entrepreneurship in two ways: facilitate, create and transmit fundamental research related to technology entrepreneurship; and facilitate and encourage leveraged curriculum and program development related to technology entrepreneurship.
• Launching Entrepreneurial Advisory Programs (LEAP)
  Launching Entrepreneurial Advisory Programs (LEAP) provides volunteer advisory panels for women entrepreneurs to help enhance the growth, profitability and success of their South Central Wisconsin businesses.
• The G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition
  The competition is an exciting opportunity that encourages student teams to develop and present technology-based business plans. The competition encourages cross-functional teams of UW-Madison students to compete for cash prizes for presenting the best plans.
• Wisconsin TechSearch
  Wisconsin TechSearch is the fee-based information outreach program of the Kurt F. Wendt Library. WTS offers document delivery and research services to business and industry, including online literature, patent and trademark searches. WTS provides access to the information resources of all 40+ libraries at the UW–Madison, including Kurt F. Wendt Library, which contains outstanding collections in science and engineering, and is a U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Library.
• School of Business Library: How to Research a Company
  Fee-based information services for business and industry focused on company research.
• UW-Technology Enterprise Cooperative
  Brings students, faculty and staff together with industry and entrepreneurs to foster growth and development of high-technology businesses.
• UW-Madison Entrepreneurship Association
  Provides student and the local community additional channels, resources and opportunities to complement academic and professional career goals.