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Fuentek Promotes Jack Spain to Senior Consultant
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Fuentek names new client lead. |
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Fuentek Participates In Goddard Space Flight Center Technical Interchange Meetings
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Fuentek coordinates meetings to discuss future technology partnering opportunities. |
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Fuentek Cosponsors Excellence Fund Scholarship for UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine Student
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Fuentek supports students entering medical profession. |
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Fuentek Senior Consultant Addresses the Carolina Chapter of the Product Development and Management Association
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Greg Hopper offers examples of effective technology transfer practices.
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Laura Schoppe Participates in Venture Capital Investment Competition at Kenan-Flagler Business School
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Fuentek President acts as judge in UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduate competition.
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Fuentek, LLC is Finalist in Four Stevie® Award Categories in the 4th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business
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 Fuentek has been chosen as a finalist in four categories in the 4th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, presented by Infiniti. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run—worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars.” (New York Post, April 27, 2005). |
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Fuentek Marketing Plays a Role in Successful Nanotechnology Licensing at NASA
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An innovative new process developed by NASA and marketed by Fuentek, LLC is making a big impact in nanotechnology. In early 2006, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland licensed its patented technique for manufacturing high-quality single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to Idaho Space Materials (ISM). |
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NASA Chooses SPC–Fuentek Team to Support Innovative Partnerships Program
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Virginia-based System Planning Corporation (SPC) and its partner North Carolina–based Fuentek as the team to support the Agency’s Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP). |
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| Fuentek Again Wins Spot as One of the Top 50 Women-owned and Top 50 Diversity-owned Businesses in North Carolina for 2006 |
Having distinguished itself as one of the top entrepreneur companies in the country, DiversityBusiness.com, again named Fuentek, LLC as one of the "Top Businesses in the United States" for 2006, winning in the categories of top woman-owned businesses in NC and top diversity-owned businesses in NC. |
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| Laura Schoppe Speaks at Licensing Executives Society (LES) Research Triangle Park Chapter Event |
On Tuesday, September 26, Fuentek president Laura Schoppe spoke on “Technology Sourcing: Make/Buy, and Find/Qualify Strategies” at a lunch meeting of the Research Triangle Park Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society. |
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| Fuentek Wins Two Awards at the 2005-2006 STC Technical Communications Competition |
Fuentek writers and designers were presented with two awards from the 2005-2006 Technical Communications competition sponsored by the Carolina Chapter of the Society of Technical Communications. |
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| Fuentek Named One of the Top 50 Women-owned Businesses in North Carolina for 2005 |
 The DiversityBusiness.com 6th annual election to determine "America's Top 50 Corporations providing Multicultural Business Opportunities" named Fuentek one of the top 50 women-owned businesses in North Carolina. Find out more... |
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| Fuentek Organizes NASA Goddard's 3rd Technology Transfer Investment Workshop |
Working with NASA Goddard's Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), Fuentek has organized and will be running the OTT's next Technology Transfer Investment Workshop. This upcoming workshop, entitled “The Innovator’s Solution,” was held September 23, 2005, (8:30 am–noon) at the Marriot Hotel in Greenbelt, MD. This was the third seminar in the series on forming high-impact partnerships for technology spin-out. Find out more... |
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| The Successful Work of the Fuentek and Deloitte Consulting Team at UIUC Has Continuing Impact on Commercialization Efforts |
During the summer of 2001, Fuentek and Deloitte Consulting (at the time Deloitte and Touche) teamed up to provide the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) Office of Technology Management (OTM) with portfolio screening and technology licensing services. Since that time, many articles have been written about the immediate and continuing success of the UIUC OTM. Read excerpts and results of the Deloitte-Fuentek team's undertaking. |
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| Fuentek Team Members Author Chapter in the "Bible" of New Product Development |
Fuentek President Laura Schoppe and writer Nancy Pekar contribute a chapter for The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2005. |
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| Fuentek featured in Entrepreneur Magazine |
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Pictured top left to right: Joey Holmes, Beth Oldham. Bottom left to right: Nancy Pekar, Laura Schoppe, Roy Fauber |
What does it take for Ph.D.s and MBAs to peacefully coexist in business? This article by Entrepreneur Magazine highlights Fuentek's approach, along with opinions from three other companies, to find out what works and what doesn't. |
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| Fuentek Has Three Winning Entries at the 2004-2005 Carolina STC Awards |
Fuentek won three awards at the 2004-2005 Society of Technical Communication's Awards for Technical Publications. Awards were for the writing and design/production of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Technology Transfer Annual Report for 2003, Applied Science International's "Extreme Loading" brochure, and a video about Nanotechnology research at NASA Goddard. |
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| Fuentek Plays Key Role in Successful Technology Transfer from Roche Diagnostics to Theron, Inc. |
On October 29, 2003, Roche Diagnostics Corporation and Theron, Inc., both participating in Indiana's BioCrossroads initiative, signed an agreement that Theron would acquire licensing rights to Roche's biosensor technology platform. With this technology, Theron will establish a new company to develop and sell products in the environmental and food safety testing markets. Fuentek played a key support role in the licensing activities, providing Roche with crucial data for industry, application, and partner selections as well as key data and innovative ideas for the final negotiations. |
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| Fuentek’s Holmes and Stangle-Castor Help Give Startups a Chance |
For the past three years, Joseph Holmes and Nannette Stangle-Castor have served as judges for the Case-Weatherhead Business Launch Competition—Mr. Holmes serving in the engineering track and Dr. Stangle-Castor in the biotech track. Read on to see how the judges' input makes a difference. |
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| Schoppe Coaches Next Wave of Entrepreneurs |
In September 2002, Fuentek president Laura Schoppe served as one of the coaches preparing entrepreneurs for presentations at the Springboard: Southeast 2002 venture capital forum. Hoping to secure second-round funding for her company, Raindrop Geomagic’s president Ping Fu used Ms. Schoppe’s and the other coaches’ advice to refine her presentation, which eventually led to several million dollars in offered VC funding. |
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| Fuentek Wins Five Carolina STC Awards in the 2003-2004 Competition |
Fuentek won five awards for technical writing and design from the Carolina Society of Technical Communications. Awards were for writing and design of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Technology Transfer/Commercialization Report for 2002, Roche Diagnostics' Web site for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, the Fuentek corporate Web site, the Fuentek corporate brochure, and NASA Goddard's Office of Technology Transfer newsletter. |
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| Laura Schoppe Wins Whitcomb Award |
Fuentek president Laura Schoppe was honored with the Richard T. Whitcomb Aerospace Technology Transfer Award from NASA Langley Research Center in July of 2002. This award was developed to recognize the outstanding contributions of individuals involved in technology development and transfer. |
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| Fuentek Wins Carolina STC Award in the 2002-2003 Competition |
Fuentek’s writing and design of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Technology Transfer/Commercialization Report for 2001 received an award for excellence from the Carolina Chapter of the Society of Technical Communication (STC). The award was given as part of the technical publications competition. |
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| Schoppe Serves on National GWIB Conference Panel |
In November 2002, Fuentek president Laura Schoppe served on a panel discussing entrepreneurship at the Graduate Women in Business National Conference. Held at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, the 2002 conference—billed as Embracing the Challenge—was attended by more than 400 participants from 40 business schools and 30 companies. |
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| Judging at the Duke Start-Up Challenge |
Fuentek's president, Laura Schoppe, served as one of the judges at Duke University's Start-up Challenge. Read about the most "challenging" aspects of judging were and who came out on top! |
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| Fuentek Earns 8(a) Certification |
On February 6, 2002, Fuentek received 8(a) certification from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA's 8(a) program provides small, minority-owned businesses with services such as support for government contractors, access to capital, management and technical assistance, export assistance, and more to help them compete in the larger market. |
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