Expert to Talk on Tech Transfer April 11 at MTU
HOUGHTON--Nothing can fail
like success, notes technology transfer expert Barbara McQuiston. Even
the best invention needs proper shepherding. McQuiston, who consults for
corporate spinoffs from CalTech and its Jet Propulsion Lab, will give
a lecture, "Living on the Edge: Taking Your Technology to the Market,"
on Thursday, April 11, at Michigan Tech.
Her talk is sponsored by MTU's
Center for Technological Innovation, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship
(CenTILE) and begins at 7 p.m. in Room U115 of the Minerals and Materials
Engineering Building.
Technology companies are living
in uncertain times, managing on the edge between the peaks of success
and valleys of ruin. McQuiston, who hikes the peaks and valleys with technology
companies across the country, will reflect on several case studies involving
successful and unsuccessful startup efforts. Her presentation will include
making it to market and actually staying in business.
McQuiston is currently a partner
in QuanStar Management Group, of Pasadena, Calif., which specializes in
management consulting to high-technology companies. She has worked with
numerous companies and institutes in global technology management and
research and currently supports two CalTech startups, QWIP Technologies
and Tuneable Photonics.
McQuiston has a PhD in Biomedical
Engineering from Wright State University and a BS in Aerospace Engineering
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Her visit is sponsored by CenTILE as part of its "From Idea to Market"
lecture series. For more information on CenTILE or on the lecture series,
contact Karol Pelc, 487-2663, kipelc@mtu.edu.
