Fuentek Designs and Facilitates Training Session for NASA Innovative Partnerships Program

Apex, NC, September 19, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Laura A. Schoppe, president of Fuentek, LLC (www.fuentek.com), has announced that the firm coordinated and executed a training session for NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program on August 4 and 5 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The goal of the training session was to bring external industry approaches in technology infusion to NASA, ensuring that the agency can implement proven strategies within its own research centers. Andrew Hargadon, associate professor of technology management at the University of California Davis and author of How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate, was the keynote speaker. Other guest speakers included the director of business development from Xerox PARC, and the director of the open innovation office at Hewlett Packard. Fuentek staff, Nannette Stangle-Castor and Jack Spain, also gave several presentations on topics, including tools and techniques for creating infusion partnerships and for effective communication with various audiences, which should increase the success rate of infusion efforts at NASA.

“We are pleased that we were able to design and facilitate the training session for NASA’s Innovative Partnerships Program,” said Schoppe. “As a government organization, NASA faces a unique set of challenges with technology transfer and it is important that they are able to recognize the options that are available to them.”

“Fuentek’s foresight in bringing best practices in innovation into NASA is commendable,” said Hargadon. “It is imperative that NASA understands that innovation is not just about the technology, but also about how networks of individuals and organizations are formed to apply technology from various sources.”

About Fuentek, LLC:
Fuentek, LLC is a consulting firm that provides intellectual property and technology management services. With a specialization in technology commercialization, Fuentek works with a wide variety of clients to identify promising technologies and assist them in converting their ideas and inventions into marketable products. Drawing upon its unique combination of technical, business and commercialization expertise, the firm has helped organizations around the world find the technology they need. Led by Laura A. Schoppe, a 2008 recipient of the prestigious Triangle Business Journal Women In Business award, Fuentek offers training workshops, guidebooks and instructional Web sites to help clients improve their skills in effectively managing their intellectual property. For the past three consecutive years, DiversityBusiness.com has recognized Fuentek as a top women-owned, diversity-owned and small business in North Carolina. The firm is the largest NASA contractor in North Carolina. For more information, please call (919) 303-5874 or visit Fuentek’s Web site at www.fuentek.com.

Patty Briguglio
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