Tom Still

Turning brain drain into brain gain: Growth strategies for rural Wisconsin

Looking back on a litany of grant announcements by the U.S. Department...

Patent director’s visit to Wisconsin underscores value of innovation economy

When computer scientist Michelle Lee joined Google as its first head of...

Data science is transforming decision-making: How will society strike a balance?

Data science is a fancy term for statistics. It’s the extraction of...

Managing state or regional brands is hard to get right — and keep right

Brands are finicky things. If you don’t believe so, ask the red-faced...

American Family helping set standard for ‘big company’ role in emerging economy

From the outside, American Family Insurance might strike observers as a buttoned-down,...

Keeping the pipeline filled with engineers essential for Wisconsin business

If you want to know why engineering appears once again on the...

Portals for doing business abroad are wide open for Wisconsin companies

Neil Karolek, the gregarious yet all-business president of TLX Technologies in Pewaukee,...

Cities that try to block ‘shared economy’ risk missing an innovation trend

Whether the phenomenon is called the “shared economy” or the “on-demand economy,”...

Internet access battle far from over in Congress

Two weeks ago during a Washington, D.C., “fly-in” of technology groups, companies,...

When does ‘right to choose’ on vaccinations hurt others?

I asked a top infectious disease expert at the National Institutes of...