{"id":5885,"date":"2013-09-26T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2013-09-26T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:06:09","slug":"chancellor-blank-uw-needs-to-play-role-in-states-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5885","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor Blank: UW Needs to Play Role in State&#8217;s Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Becky Blank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisbusiness.com\/index.iml?Article=305976\">told<\/a> the Wisconsin Innovation Network Tuesday that UW-Madison needs to play a role in entrepreneurship in the state and the university will &#8220;work in partnership with the local and state community of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to help start new businesses and stimulate economic growth everywhere in the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While at the Department of Commerce, Blank recognized a three-way partnership between state and local officials, the private sector, and higher education is necessary to attract growth, and major research institutions, like UW-Madison, provide a skilled workforce while leading in new technology and invention.<\/p>\n<p>The chancellor said UW-Madison is well-positioned in its outreach efforts, citing the launch of D2P (Discovery to Product), a three-year pilot program that intends to strengthen the commercialization of discoveries on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Becky Blank told the Wisconsin Innovation Network Tuesday that UW-Madison needs to play a role in entrepreneurship in the state and the university will &#8220;work in partnership with the local and state community of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5885\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-chancellor-blank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}