The GFCC is proud to welcome the University of Wisconsin–Madison to its global network of universities, committed to sharing competitiveness best practices and advancing innovation worldwide. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is a public land-grant research university and the flagship campus of the Universities of Wisconsin system. Its guiding principle, the Wisconsin Idea, holds that a university's education and research should improve people's lives beyond the classroom. Classifi

Tsukuba is Japan's leading science city. This planned research hub about 50 kilometers northeast of central Tokyo was built around a concentration of national research institutions and the University of Tsukuba. The city is now home to close to 160 research institutions and around 300 startups that have been established over the years in connection with the university. However, this research concentration has not automatically translated into shared priorities, trusted interf