Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues (GTEC)

Training for Bioscience Commercialization Through TI:GER Teams

The Georgia Tech/Emory Center (GTEC) for the Engineering of Living Tissues, an Engineering Research Center, and the PI of an NSF IGERT grant, Dr. Marie Thursby in the Georgia Tech College of Management, have joined forces to bring into the commercial market technical innovations that require skills from a variety of disciplines, in a commercialization program called "Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results" (TI:GER). The two-year TI:GER program educates graduate students in the challenges of commercializing new technologies and delivering innovative products to the marketplace by combining classroom instruction, team-based activities, and internship opportunities. Each TI:GER team is composed of a science or engineering Ph.D. candidate, a Georgia Tech MBA student, and an Emory Law student. Currently, there are 9 bioscience-related TI:GER teams, 7 of which have been formed around faculty inventors from GTEC.

GTEC industry members will have the opportunity to interact with a select group of TI:GER teams that will give them short summary "pitches" of their projects. The advantages of this interaction with industry are: 1) the commercialization teams will receive feedback from highly experienced industry partners; 2) the industry partners will be exposed to development plans and progress in GTEC and bioscience innovations; and 3) industry members will meet Ph.D., M.B.A., and J.D. students who could become valuable employees with industrially relevant experience.

To learn more about this topic:
Contact the Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues (GTEC) site at http://www.gtec.gatech.edu/industry/newsletters/spring2005.pdf as well as the TI:GER Web site at http://tiger.gatech.edu/

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Last modified: March 30, 2006