Notable Institutions
Life science organizations ranging from the nationally recognized Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) and American Cancer Society to the Yerkes Primate Center.
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Academic Institutions
Universities, research institutions and technology transfer offices.
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Notable institutions in the Atlanta Technology Loop
AeA (Formerly the American Electronics Association)
AeA is a nationwide non-profit trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry and is dedicated solely to helping it's members top line and bottom line. This is done in partnership with small, medium, and large member companies by lobbying governments at the state, federal, and international levels; providing access to capital and business opportunities; and offering select business services and networking programs.
Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)
ATDC at Georgia Tech is a nationally recognized science and technology incubator. Companies associated with the ATDC have raised more than $1 billion in venture capital since 1999. ATDC's Biosciences Center has 22,000 square feet of wet-lab and office space.
Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP)
The ASAP is the leading global professional association dedicated to alliance formation and practice. We provide a forum to exchange alliance best practices, resources, and opportunities that drive corporate performance. We strive to be recognized as the growth engines to drive corporate performance. The Atlanta/Southeast Chapter of ASAP focuses on addressing the difficult issues that impact alliances today.
Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AiMA)
The AiMA is a non-profit professional association dedicated to innovation in interactive marketing among brand marketers, publishers and agencies through educational and networking events. Founded in 1999, AiMA provides professional development, promotes best practices and creates a forum of the discussion of new ideas and critical business issues.
Atlanta Telecom Professionals (ATP)
The ATP is a non-profit organization created for the purpose of providing an environment for networking, the exchange of important industry information, and the recognition of excellence within the Atlanta telecom community. ATP exists to meet the professional development and networking needs of its members - telecom, cable, and Internet professionals in Atlanta and the Southeastern region of the United States.
Business Incubation - Medical College of Georgia
Business incubators are organizations and facilities that encourage, nurture and foster your entrepreneurial enterprises. There are currently six Innovation Centers: Augusta, Columbus, Gainesville, Tifton, Savannah and Warner-Robins. Each is aligned with a distinct industry sector and an institution of higher education.
EmTech Bio
Emtech Bio is a partnership between Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology. Founded in 2000, Emtech Biotechnology Development, Inc. offers laboratory space and use of scientific equipment to start-up and early-stage bioscience companies in a convenient location on Emory University's Briarcliff Campus in Atlanta, GA.
Georgia Centers for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT)
Georgia's Intellectual GCATT is an initiative for creating real and virtual clusters of excellence in advanced telecommunications - the latest technologies and applications in networking, content processing, and system solutions.
Georgia Centers of Innovation
Provides access to university level research and development, industry-specific incubator space, training, business management services, matching research grant funds. The Georgia Centers for Innovation facilitate key networking opportunities and connect their clients to industry thought leaders and potential investors.
Georgia Electronic Design Center
The Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) supports world-class research that fosters the development of new communications technology in wireless/RF, wired/copper and fiber channel applications. Home of the nation's largest university-based mixed-signal research team, Georgia Tech's GEDC collaborates with more than 45 member companies and federal agency partners, conducting approximately $12 million in research each year.
Georgia Game Developers Association (GGDA)
The GGDA is a non-profit trade association of businesses and professionals of the video and electronic game manufacturing industry of Georgia. GGDA is committed to the growth and development of this industry and the success of its members as they compete internationally. It promotes the growth and success of game manufacturers in Georgia by providing oversight and guidance of government and academic involvement, identification and availability of resources, creation and application of best practices and certifications.
Georgia Innovation - Technology Office
The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) includes a specialized Innovation and Technology Office (ITO) that can provide access to the best corporate, academic and public resources to accelerate the transformation of ideas and visions into profitable businesses.
Georgia Production Partnership (GPP)
The GPP is a not-for-profit coalition of companies and individuals who are active in the state's film, video, music, and interactive game industries. Established in 1998, this professional group has been instrumental in the grass roots organization of the production community and the development of key legislative incentives. It's goal is to bring Georgia back to the forefront of U.S. production.
Georgia Research Alliance
A public/private organization that has invested more than $350 million since 1993 to recruit eminent scholars to Georgia institutions.
Georgia Technology Authority (GTA)
The GTA seeks to ensure that the state's IT infrastructure is stable, secure and well-governed, and provides Georgians with the services they need and expect.
Gwinnett Technology Forum
The GTF provides representatives of technology companies interested in networiking and strategic alliances a unique opportunity to interact, as well as stay abreast of the technology issues, ideas and industry leaders impacting their business and customers. The GTF also provides an environment for simulating and informative interchange that benefits service providers and non-technical business people responsible for maing technology-related decisions.
Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP)
Georgia's Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP) is the economic development program of the University System of Georgia, helping connect the intellectual resources of Georgia's 35 public colleges and universities to the state's business community in innovative ways.
MIT Enterprise
The MIT Enterprise Forum, Inc. builds connections to technology entrepreneurs and to the communities in which they reside. The Enterprise Forum produces a series of educational programs about entrepreneurship through a network of 24 worldwide chapters. Anyone interested in or involved with technology entrepreneurship is welcomed to participate and join together to form the Enterprise Forum community.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST's mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development - Medical College of Georgia
The MCG Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development was created in the Spring of 2001 in order to have an efficient and effective mechanism for converting scientific discoveries into improved health care. As a division of the Office of the Vice President of Research, it's function is to identify and protect intellectual property generated from the rapidly growing research enterprise at MCG.
Project Management Institute (PMI)
The PMI is the world's leading not-for-profit project management professional association, with over 200,000 members representing 125 countries. Currently there are over 240 chartered and approximately 20 potential chapters geographically dispersed over 67 countries. PMI Atlanta Chapter serves the North Georgia and Metro Atlanta Area. Its 3,700+ members are employed across all industries, with a majority in IT and Telecommunications fields. PMI establishes project management standards, provides seminars, educational programs and professional certification that more and more organizations desire for their project leaders.
Technology Association of Georgia (TAG)
TAG supports its members by generating opportunities for personal, professional, and business growth. By forging these strategic alliances, TAG acts as a primary catalyst to foster a rich growth environment for technology development in Georgia.
TechLink
TechLink helps the Department of Defense to commercialize leading-edge new technology by partnering DoD labs with private sector companies for technology licensing, transfer, and research and development. These technology transfer partnerships solve industry problems, create business opportunities, and stimulate economic development while helping DoD to achieve its technology transfer and transition missions.Use the site to search for technology available for licensing, patents for a variety of industry areas, technology opportunities and abstracts, information about SBIR and other assistance programs, and news stories about technology transfer successes.
VentureLab: Georgia Research Alliance
VentureLab helps create early-stage businesses that are ready to advance into traditional technology business incubators. Through unique partnerships and collaboration, VentureLab reduces both the costs and risks associated with technology transfer.
Wireless Technology Forum (WTF)
The WTF is an association focused specifically on the needs of wireless and mobile technologies products and services providers. The primary objective of the WTF is to provide a venue for communications, networking, and education among members of the wireless and mobile technologies community.
Women in Technology
A public/private organization that has invested more than $350 million since 1993 to recruit eminent scholars to Georgia institutions. It began as a venue for women working in the technology industry to meet, share ideas and support one another. Since then it has grown to become a premier networking setting for both men and women in the technology industry.WIT's meetings and events have become the place that the technology community gathers to learn the latest trends and to recognize accomplishments.
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Academic Institutions the Atlanta Technology Loop
Agnes Scott College
Since 1889, Agnes Scott has inspired students to discover new opportunities, challenges and strengths through a liberal arts education in a setting dedicated to women. The college was ranked among the top 10 liberal arts colleges in the south and the #1 women's college in Georgia and the entire southeast by U.S. News & World Report in 2007.
Clark Atlanta University
Clark Atlanta University (CAU), formed in 1988, is a result of the consolidation of two independent historically black institutions - Atlanta University (1865) and Clark College (1869). The University, largest of the 39-member UNCF colleges, is a United Methodist Church-affiliated, comprehensive, private, urban, coeducational, residential institution of higher learning with a predominantly African-American heritage.
Clayton State University
Clayton State University offers four master's degree programs and over 30 baccalaureate degree programs to its 6,000 enrolled students. The University was ranked by U.S. News & World Report in 2008 as having the most diverse student population among comprehensive baccalaureate-level colleges and universities in the southern U.S.
Emory University
Emory is home to nine major academic divisions, numerous centers for advanced study, and a host of prestigious affiliated institutions. Emory's internationally known medical school has $312 million in funded health science research and is ranked in the top 20 grant recipients from the National Institute of Health.
Office of Technology Transfer
Emory University is currently ranked 1st among U.S. universities in commercial licensing revenues. The Office of Technology is charged with protecting and transferring the intellectual property of Emory.
Emory Vaccine Center
The Emory Vaccine Center, with over 100 scientists, is one of the world's largest centers focused on new vaccine strategies. The Center is working to eradicate challenge health problems such as AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza and respiratory illnesses.
Georgia Gwinnett College
Located in Lawrenceville, Georgia Gwinnett College is the first new four-year public college created in the Georgia in more than 100 years and the first in the nation in the 21st century. The School of Science and Technology offers two different tracks in a Bachelor of Science in Biology – General Biology and Cell Biology and Biotechnology.
Georgia Institute of Technology
One of the nation's top research universities, Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of Atlanta, where more than 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education. Georgia Tech is consistently ranked in U.S. News & World Report's top 10 public universities in the U.S.
Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute
The Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute helps companies, entrepreneurs, economic developers and communities improve their competitiveness through the application of science, technology and innovation.
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
GTRI is the non-profit applied research arm of Georgia Tech, with approximately 1,200 employees performing or supporting over $100 million in research yearly for more than 200 clients in industry and government.
Georgia Perimeter College
Georgia Perimeter College is among the nation's fastest-growing metropolitan two-year colleges. With more than 21,000 students, GPC is the third-largest institution in the University System of Georgia. The affordable college has five campuses located around Atlanta.
Georgia State University (GSU)
Located in downtown Atlanta, this research university has an enrollment of more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students in six colleges and is the second largest university in the state.
Georgia State Technology and Commercialization Development Program
This program encourages and assists in the development and protection of intellectual property developed by Georgia State University faculty, staff and students.
CollabTech Biotechnology Development Center
CollabTech is a partnership between GSU and the biotechnology industry fostering collaboration between academic faculty and industrial scientists. CollabTech has 8,000 square feet of office and wet-lab space, providing space and facilities for biotech startup companies.
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw State University, the third-largest university in the University System of Georgia, is a comprehensive university with expanding undergraduate and graduate programs in Kennesaw, one of metropolitan Atlanta's burgeoning northwest suburban communities.
Mercer University
Mercer's metro Atlanta campus provides a biomedical specialization within an accredited Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and a Master of Science degree in engineering. Mercer's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences became the first pharmacy school in the Southeast and the fifth in the nation to offer the Doctor of Pharmacy program.
Morehouse School of Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine addresses primary health care needs through programs in education, research and service, with emphasis on people of color and the underserved urban and rural populations in Georgia and the nation.
Oglethorpe University
Oglethorpe University provides a superior education in the liberal arts and sciences and selected professional disciplines in a coeducational, largely residential, small-college environment within a dynamic urban setting.
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia Campus (GA-PCOM)
Located in Suwanee, the GA-PCOM Graduation Programs in Biomedical Sciences allow students with baccalaureate degrees to begin their graduate study in the biomedical sciences as additional preparation for professional study or to achieve an advanced biomedical knowledge base for science careers and/or teaching. The College also offers a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine program.
Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU)
Founded in 1948, Southern Polytechnic State University is a residential, co-educational member of the very progressive University System of Georgia. With approximately 4,000 students averaging 25-30 in each classroom, SPSU offers a dedicated and focused balance of studies in science, lab and liberal arts at both the bachelor and graduate-degree levels.
Spelman College
Spelman College is a private, independent, liberal arts, historically black college for women, founded in 1881. The college ranked among the top 75 Best Liberal Arts Colleges according to the U.S. News & World Report, 2007 edition. Washington Monthly ranks Spelman #1 for Social Mobility and Black Enterprise ranks Spelman # 5 on its list of best colleges for African Americans.
University of Georgia
Founded in 1785 as America's first chartered state university, UGA is the state's largest and most comprehensive higher education institution, with more than 33,000 students and a major focus on life science research and development. Its 15 schools and colleges include veterinary and agriculture schools and emerging environmental and biological science departments.
Technology Commercialization Office
The Technology Commercialization Office facilitates the transfer of technology from UGA to commercial enterprises. Since 1974, more than 85 companies have been established by technologies transferred from UGA, the majority of which are bioscience.
Georgia BioBusiness Center
This UGA incubator, in partnership with the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, offers 20,000 square feet of office and wet-lab space.
Technical Colleges
The Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) oversees the state's 33 technical colleges, adult literacy programs, and a host of economic and workforce development programs. Technical colleges in the Innovation Crescent include:
Athens Technical College
Atlanta Technical College
Chattahoochee Technical College
DeKalb Technical College
Gwinnett Technical College
Lanier Technical College
North Metro Technical College
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