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UC-Corporate Links Produce Trove of Patents, Study Finds

Research from UC Berkeley found that corporate-sponsored inventions at the University of California system over 15 years generated more patents and licenses – two benchmarks of innovation – than did those solely backed by the federal government, the...
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Johnson & Johnson, Alector Team Up on Alzheimer’s Therapies

Big pharmaceutical companies traditionally poured a lot of money into internal scientific research, said Laura Schoppe of Fuentek, a consulting service that helps universities, government labs and companies bring technology to market. But in the wake of the economic...
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Stanford’s StartX Among Region’s Key University Incubators

The region also boasts non-university-affiliated incubators, like Rock Health and Y Combinator, but universities remain the dominant hubs of innovation, said Laura Schoppe of Fuentek, a consulting service that helps universities, government labs and companies bring...
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TTO Advisory Panels: Best Practices to Optimize Success

“Every university has its areas of focus. You want your panel to reflect those core competencies,” says Laura Schoppe, MBA, MSE, RTTP, president of the Apex, NC-based intellectual property management and tech transfer consulting firm Fuentek LLC. “So if...