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.
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.
Press Releases
ATDC launches SeedSpace
Atlanta Business Chronicle - February 11, 2009
With an eye toward stocking the membership pipeline, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) has created "an incubator with an incubator." SeedSpace is a 1,225-square-foot co-working space within the 35,000-square-foot technology business incubatorat Georgia Tech. Besides office space tenants will have access to ATDC's mentoring and other support services. Through the initiative, ATDC hopes to reach out to potential members companies earlier on in their lifecycle -- before they settle elsewhere, ATDC's Lance Weatherby said.
Zenda Technologies Offers Quick, Early Detection of Alzheimer's
(January 13, 2009) — Alzheimer's disease — the progressive brain disease that slowly takes away memory and thinking skills — is the most common cause of dementia among older people. As many as 4.5 million Americans and 18 million people worldwide suffer from the disease, and for caregivers, the tolls are physical, emotional and financial. In fact, Alzheimer's is one of the most economically costly diseases to society in developed countries.
Innovative Firms Gain Widening Profit Advantage, Study Shows
(November 10, 2008) — The profitability gap between companies that compete on the basis of innovative products or processes and firms that compete with a low-price advantage has more than doubled over the past three years, a new survey of Georgia manufacturers has found.
Georgia Tech Helps Boost State Economy
(June 5, 2008) — The Georgia Institute of Technology's impact on the state's economy totals $1.8 billion, according to an updated report released by the University System of Georgia (USG). In addition, the study determined that Georgia Tech is responsible for 14,281 full- and part-time jobs in the state. Georgia Tech led the seven USG institutions in the metro Atlanta area, which combined, account for nearly $4.5 billion and 40,700 jobs.
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 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.