Crowdsourcing Works…for a Few

Crowdsourcing Works…for a Few

“Crowdsourcing” is a trendy term these days, and like all trends, has its positive and negative aspects. Although trendy terms tend to take on several meanings, the ones I’m referring to are web-based systems where organizations with a technical need...
Crowdsourcing Works…for a Few

Execs Stress Education, Training to Jobs Council

Laura Schoppe, whose company Fuentek works with federal agencies and labs in technology transfer, said government lab commercialization efforts are “not well funded.” One result, she stressed, is that the commercialization pipeline of government discoveries “is not...
Crowdsourcing Works…for a Few

A Virtual Success: Growing a Business without an Office

It’s a Friday afternoon in North Carolina and Laura Schoppe, president of Fuentek, LLC, is sitting in her virtual office with her two dogs. She’s in a great mood and has reason to be. Her technology transfer firm, which she started almost 10 years ago, has exceeded...
Crowdsourcing Works…for a Few

Is There an Advantage to Being a Hispanic Female in Business?

As a Hispanic woman running a business in a mostly male-dominated industry (high-tech business-to-business), I think I have the advantage in that I am more easily remembered when I attend networking functions or marketing meetings; a dozen women at a meeting of 500...
Crowdsourcing Works…for a Few

Glass Half Full? Technology Transfer in a Downturn

Schoppe explains: “The crash hit endowments for private universities. State funds got whacked. State universities had to give money back in some cases.”… Schoppe says that although the economic crisis has made everyone realise they need to do more with...