Entrants turn to clean-tech for Wisconsin business contest

A farmer’s sons are working in a Madison lab to develop treatments for crop diseases that won’t pollute the groundwater.

A Milwaukee-area management consultant and her team are starting a company to provide renewable energy to one of the most energy-intensive parts of an office building – its server room.

A Green Bay-area veteran of the paper industry is looking to use emerging technology to bring down the cost of biodiesel.

From all across the state, entrepreneurs with big ideas, all finalists in the Governor’s Business Plan Contest, are highlighting the growing interest in clean-tech, a sector of technology and innovation investment that includes renewable energy, energy efficiency, water technologies and pollution controls.

By Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel

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