Innovation

If you use a smartphone, you may be familiar with “pinky fatigue,” since the pinky holds the heaviest weight...

gAlpha to help turn ideas into companies.

MalamaDoe creates community for entrepreneurs.

From a 45,000-square-foot Walker’s Point warehouse, John McWilliam and his team of designers at Scathain create one-of-a-kind pieces of art and furniture for businesses, celebrities and recognized designers all over the world.

When David Swanson launched his Milwaukee restaurant, Braise, in 2006, he did so with a motive to return to slow natural foods and bring awareness to where food comes from. Swanson knew there was a disconnect between the chefs in the community who wanted fresh ingredients and the local farmers supplying them. He set out to change that.

More than 25 years ago, Sussex-based Color Ink Inc., showed off its innovative approach to print with the launch of its popular “Cow of a Different Color” campaign. Since that time, the company has continued to grow, and still offers creative, eye-catching displays, signs and other fun products to existing and new customers alike.

The World Health Organization calls the mosquito “the greatest menace” when it comes to spreading insect-borne diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and most recently, Zika

New Berlin-based Lynch & Associates - Engineering Consultants LLC is on the cutting edge of technology. Clients are lining up to work with the company and its patent-pending Bison Construction Solution.

According to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, one inch of rainfall in the metro Milwaukee area is equivalent to 1.5 billion gallons of excess water. Carrie Bristoll-Groll, a stormwater engineer for more than 25 years, knew there had to be a better way to conserve that water and eliminate pollutants from the waterways – particularly for smaller sites interested in water conservation and sustainability.

Milwaukee-based True Process Inc. has spent the past three years building a unique and innovative medical device platform known as ViNES. The platform allows medical facilities to capture and store high-resolution medical data from virtually any connected device. Data can be translated into a vendor-neutral format and then delivered on demand for the purpose of research and analysis – not just record-keeping. Clinicians and researchers can obtain data and measurements for a patient’s entire physiological history, allowing them to review it retrospectively.