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| | | | | | | Georgia Tech's TI:GER® (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) Program recently won a grant from Georgia Tech's Fund for Innovation in Research and Innovation (GT FIRE) for an international technology commercialization project, to be conducted in collaboration with Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, Germany. TI:GER® (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) team SpherIngenics won third place in the 2011 Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition for its plan to develop a platform microbead technology for the delivery of cell-based therapies that is safer, more efficient and cost effective than current treatments on the market. Secure InfoShare, a company that evolved in the TI:GER® (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) Program, placed third in the 2011 Georgia Bowl® Business Plan Competition on February 5. Secure InfoShare is developing security software in partnership with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University for use in the electronic medical records market. Georgia Tech's Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER ®) program recently won a prestigious award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) for its multidisciplinary approach to educating future leaders in technology commercialization. | | | | | | | | More News & Events | | | | | |
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"The program has helped me clearly articulate my research and its benefits to nonscientists, which is vital to making your science and technology successful in the real world.”
"TI:GER has been the defining experience of my MBA education. The professors involved are very knowledgeable about everything involved in bringing new technologies to market."
"If I decide to go into industry, my TI:GER background would make it much easier to move to the business side instead of just staying in the lab working on direct research."
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