Please feel free to contact transmera at any time
transmera ab is based on the Linköping Science Park in Linköping, Sweden
transmera international inc. is based in Illinois, USA
Telephone:
+46 (0)70 341 53 59 (Sweden)
+1 847 380 2100 (USA)
Email:
mary . spaeth (at) transmera . com
(if it weren't for all the robots, I'd offer you a nice hyperlink)
transmera international inc. is based in Illinois, USA
Telephone:
+46 (0)70 341 53 59 (Sweden)
+1 847 380 2100 (USA)
Email:
mary . spaeth (at) transmera . com
(if it weren't for all the robots, I'd offer you a nice hyperlink)
Who is behind the transmera brand?
Mary Shepard Spaeth, PhD, MSc
is an economic development specialist in business incubation and science park development and foreign direct investment. She conducts research in entrepreneurship, employability, identity studies, and economic development. Since the 90s she has served five years as the director of marketing and business development for the Northwestern University/Evanston Research Park; four years as Executive Vice President of the US subsidiary of London-based ANGLE Technology, driving the C&M arm for all academic and government commercialization, incubation and science park initiatives in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Poland, and the UK; and 2.5 years as the executive director of the East Sweden Development Agency where she lead economic development and foreign direct investment initiatives for a region of 13 municipalities and a half million inhabitants.
Mary has taught and researched entrepreneurship and management at University of Wisconsin-Stout, Texas State University, Royal Institute of Technology and Linkoping University in Sweden, University of the West of Scotland, Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, and has also taught at Southern Methodist University and Loyola University Chicago. She was a champion and facilitator for the former international 3-Day StartUp program and the Science Park Innovation Center Expert network based in Berlin. She has published articles in a breadth of academic journals and presented numerous papers to the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA), International Association of Science Parks (IASP), International Council of Small Business (ICSB), Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE), the British Academy of Management (BAM) and most recently presented research on systems network analysis at the 2024 R&D Management Conference in Stockholm
In her early career, Mary worked in public relations in Dallas, Texas and was the co-founder of a successful advertising firm in Chicago, Communication Resource Group. CRG was responsible for accounts with McDonald's, Federal Reserve Bank, Bally Manufacturing, Nalco Chemicals, and several other well-known firms.
A mentor and advisory board member for Entrepreneurship Futures Network based in the Silicon Valley, Mary has mentored and judged business teams for the Duke Challenge, Berkeley GSVC, Rice University Business Plan Competition (RBPC), Stanford, Indian Business School and the University of Michigan, and for several companies competing for the African Entrepreneurship Awards. Boards of directors and advisors work includes Entrepreneurship Futures Network, SXSW Pitch Competition Advisory, Dunn County Revolving Fund, Swedish Fulbright Commission Board; Swedish Academy of Realist Art; the Institute of Arts Entrepreneurship in Chicago; Scrive, an e-contracting firm in Stockholm. She has two grown children. Her husband, Peter, is a writer, translator, and bibliophile. She and Peter are dual citizens US/Sweden and both speak fluent English and Swedish.
is an economic development specialist in business incubation and science park development and foreign direct investment. She conducts research in entrepreneurship, employability, identity studies, and economic development. Since the 90s she has served five years as the director of marketing and business development for the Northwestern University/Evanston Research Park; four years as Executive Vice President of the US subsidiary of London-based ANGLE Technology, driving the C&M arm for all academic and government commercialization, incubation and science park initiatives in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Poland, and the UK; and 2.5 years as the executive director of the East Sweden Development Agency where she lead economic development and foreign direct investment initiatives for a region of 13 municipalities and a half million inhabitants.
Mary has taught and researched entrepreneurship and management at University of Wisconsin-Stout, Texas State University, Royal Institute of Technology and Linkoping University in Sweden, University of the West of Scotland, Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, and has also taught at Southern Methodist University and Loyola University Chicago. She was a champion and facilitator for the former international 3-Day StartUp program and the Science Park Innovation Center Expert network based in Berlin. She has published articles in a breadth of academic journals and presented numerous papers to the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA), International Association of Science Parks (IASP), International Council of Small Business (ICSB), Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE), the British Academy of Management (BAM) and most recently presented research on systems network analysis at the 2024 R&D Management Conference in Stockholm
In her early career, Mary worked in public relations in Dallas, Texas and was the co-founder of a successful advertising firm in Chicago, Communication Resource Group. CRG was responsible for accounts with McDonald's, Federal Reserve Bank, Bally Manufacturing, Nalco Chemicals, and several other well-known firms.
A mentor and advisory board member for Entrepreneurship Futures Network based in the Silicon Valley, Mary has mentored and judged business teams for the Duke Challenge, Berkeley GSVC, Rice University Business Plan Competition (RBPC), Stanford, Indian Business School and the University of Michigan, and for several companies competing for the African Entrepreneurship Awards. Boards of directors and advisors work includes Entrepreneurship Futures Network, SXSW Pitch Competition Advisory, Dunn County Revolving Fund, Swedish Fulbright Commission Board; Swedish Academy of Realist Art; the Institute of Arts Entrepreneurship in Chicago; Scrive, an e-contracting firm in Stockholm. She has two grown children. Her husband, Peter, is a writer, translator, and bibliophile. She and Peter are dual citizens US/Sweden and both speak fluent English and Swedish.
