Commercialization Resources and Programs
Strategic Partners Office: Industry's Bridge to Georgia Tech
The Strategic Partners Office links your company to leading-edge resources at the Georgia Institute of Technology, applying Georgia Tech faculty know-how, specialized facilities and student talent to such goals as new product development, improved competitiveness and transformation of industrial processes. With its in-depth knowledge of Georgia Tech faculty expertise, research initiatives and academic programs, the Strategic Partners Office can identify exactly the resources you need -- and make the right connections to develop a collaboration that meets your needs. The Strategic Partners Office serves to connect companies with the resources and people at Georgia Tech.
Ann E. Schmierer, Ph.D.
Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute
Strategic Partners Office
Email: ann.schmierer@innovate.gatech.edu
Ph: 404-385-2259
Commercialization Services: Industry's Link to Licensing and Commercialization Opportunities
Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute helps companies, entrepreneurs, economic developers and communities improve their competitiveness through the application of science, technology and innovation. Commercialization Services helps move innovations out of Georgia Tech laboratories and into the marketplace. It provides assistance and advice, and makes connections to investors, experienced entrepreneurs, corporate R&D officials and other specialists. Commercialization Services specialists evaluate the marketplace potential of research discoveries, recommend a pathway to commercialization, and -- when appropriate -- help form startup companies to commercialize Georgia Tech innovations.
Dr. Lee Herron, Director of Bioscience Commercialization
Phone: 404-385-1597
Email: lee.herron@atdc.org
VentureLab
The Georgia Tech VentureLab program was created to increase the number of companies emerging from Georgia Tech's research program. VentureLab is a one-stop center for technology commercialization that evaluates the commercial value of innovations, connects researchers with experienced entrepreneurs, and offers pre-seed funding for faculty-formed startups. After companies are formed in VentureLab, they may be offered incubator assistance through the ATDC, Georgia Tech's nationally-recognized science and technology incubator.
Stephen Fleming, Chief Commercialization Officer
Georgia Tech Commercialization Services
(404) 385-2360
E-mail: cs@innovate.gatech.edu
Advanced Technology Development Center
The Advanced Technology Development Center is a nationally recognized science and technology incubator that helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies. With a commitment to the technology-based enterprise, the ATDC provides a broad base of assistance to bioscience entrepreneurs. Available assistance covers the continuum of new company formation and maturation including the fundamental aspects of strategic focus through facilitating vital connections with potential board members, management and sources of capital. In December 2002, ATDC opened new bioscience incubator and laboratory space on the Georgia Tech campus that has been designed to accommodate a wide range of bioscience activities. The incubator covers 22,000 square feet within the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building within the Bioengineering Complex on the Georgia Tech campus. The incubator includes wet labs, space for new ventures and offices for entrepreneurs. Its goal is to put top research faculty together with entrepreneurs to form new research-driven enterprises.
Dr. Lee Herron, Director of Bioscience Commercialization
Phone: 404-385-1597
Email: lee.herron@atdc.org
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Press Releases
Georgia Entrepreneurs Join Georgia Tech as VentureLab Fellows
Experience helps launch companies based on Georgia Tech research
March 20, 2008 — Eight Georgia entrepreneurs from a variety of technology business backgrounds have signed on as VentureLab Fellows at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their mission is to serve as expert mentors to startup companies in Georgia Tech's VentureLab program.
Firms from Georgia Tech Incubator Raise $1 Billion: ATDC companies attract top venture capital deals
June 6, 2007 — Companies associated with Georgia Tech's science and technology incubator have raised more than a billion dollars in venture capital since 1999—and in 2006 accounted for 10 of the top 25 venture deals in Georgia. The incubator, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), has generated 112 science and technology companies since 1986—including 31 that have entered the public markets through IPOs or acquisitions.
Georgia Tech Edison Fund Supports Startup Firms
New fund targets technology companies associated with Georgia Tech
November 9, 2007 — Launched by a multi-year grant from the Charles A. Edison Fund—which is named for the inventor's son, a successful businessman and former governor of New Jersey—the Georgia Tech Edison Fund will provide seed funding for early-stage technology companies that have a close association with Georgia Tech.
Georgia Tech and St. Joseph's Announce Unique Collaboration
Biotech innovation and translational research move novel treatments to patients faster
Atlanta (March 14, 2008) — In an innovative collaboration, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Saint Joseph's Health System and Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute (SJTRI), a division of Saint Joseph's Health System, have signed agreements designed to move new treatments, therapies and products into clinical use with patients more rapidly. The agreements call for the $18.5 million relocation and expansion of the SJTRI research facilities to Technology Enterprise Park (TEP), a new bio-business park located adjacent to the Georgia Tech campus, and collaboration between physicians and researchers at Saint Joseph's Hospital and Georgia Tech faculty and students.
ATDC to Graduate Six Companies at Annual Entrepreneurs ShowcaseVentureLab Will Also Recognize Georgia Tech Startups
Atlanta (April 17, 2008) — On May 15, Georgia Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) will host one of the premier technology events of the Southeast, its Annual Entrepreneurs Showcase. Building on the launch of its highly successful blog, PeachSeedz, this year's event theme is "Seeds for Success." The event is expected to attract 500 entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders from across the Southeast.
Tech Ranked a Top University for Biotech Transfer
September 20, 2006 — The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the top universities in the world for technology transfer and a top producer of start-up companies, according to a new biotechnology study from the Milken Institute.
Georgia Tech's ATDC Named to Top Incubators List
January 19, 2006 — Georgia Tech's business incubator, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), has received another honor: listing as one of "four incubators that are setting the pace."
Georgia Tech Releases Economic Impact Study
April 6, 2006 — An economic impact study sponsored by ten of Georgia's top companies finds that greater flexibility within Georgia higher education would increase the economic impact and competitiveness of Georgia Tech and the state's other public research universities. The study shows Georgia Tech provides a $3.9 billion impact within the state of Georgia and supports directly or indirectly the creation of approximately 44,400 jobs to the state. Based on the annual funding the state provides Georgia Tech, the return on investment through economic impact is almost $15 for every state dollar. In addition, Georgia Tech graduates more engineers than any other university in the nation and generates hundreds of invention discoveries annually, both of which provide fuel for the economy of the future.