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About TechPipeline

The intersection of data analytics and practical insights

TechPipeline is a market research firm dedicated to supporting and inspiring the tech transfer (TT) community worldwide.

We develop and curate unbiased, research-based insights, analyses, and reports and hold 30 or more educational webinars each year on cutting-edge tech transfer topics. These are resources that tech transfer professionals can trust to enhance productivity, streamline processes, and inform critical decisions they face every day.

New name, new approach

Since 2009, Tech Transfer Central has been a key resource for the tech transfer community, providing information, news, products, and services for technology transfer and intellectual property professionals.

Now rebranded as TechPipeline, we’re enhancing our focus to deliver more concise, actionable content. We understand the demands on tech transfer offices and draw on our experience to produce:

Improve your office’s efficiency

Our goal is to help tech transfer professionals quickly grasp ideas that will improve their office’s efficiency, organization, and output.

More concise

Reduced article length with more substance.

Increased scannability

More bullets, graphics, and callouts to quickly bring attention to important points and new ideas

New trends to actionable strategies

Not just telling you about a new trend but telling you how to implement it

Easily accessible resource lists

More useful tips, recommended tools, thoroughly vetting all external product sources, and advice from experts

Our leadership

As longtime TTC contributors, Robert Lowe and Laura Schoppe saw its potential and purchased it in February of 2024. Under their leadership, the company aims to inform and elevate the tech transfer profession globally.

Robert Lowe

Chief Executive Officer

Rob Lowe is an entrepreneurial leader with over 20 years of experience that ranges from bootstrapping to MVP to raising venture capital to selling businesses for industry-leading investor returns and more. As the CEO of TechPipeline, he is mindfully guiding the company to become the streamlined and focused resource that the technology transfer community needs.

Laura Schoppe

Chief Commercialization Officer

Laura Schoppe created and built what has become one of the world’s leading technology transfer consulting firms. Fuentek is a trusted advisor to top universities, government agencies, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies worldwide, helping them manage their intellectual property (IP) proactively, efficiently, and effectively. As CCO of TechPipeline, she provides strategic guidance on the direction and content the company produces to align with their established goals.