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Enterprise Innovation Institute - The Strategic Partners: Your 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.

Faculty: More than 3,000 research faculty and other professionals work at Georgia Tech, including 26 members of the National Academy of Engineering and 18 Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars.  These faculty members have experience with finding practical, real-world solutions to complex interdisciplinary problems.  They can help you reach your long-term goals. 

Research: Georgia Tech’s research program ranks among the best in the world, with top-10 programs in electrical and computer engineering, aeronautical engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering and chemical engineering.  More than 100 research centers bring interdisciplinary skills to bear on complex challenges. The solutions they have developed – or may develop for you – may be just what your company needs to improve its competitive edge.

Facilities: From electron microscopes to radar test ranges, environmental test chambers to clean rooms, Georgia Tech operates cutting-edge facilities to support its $425 million research program.  These unique facilities can be used for corporate R&D efforts.  Tell us what you need to do, and chances are we have the right research facility to do it. 

Students: Georgia Tech’s 17,000 graduate and undergraduate students learn to become problem-solvers and innovators in top-ranked academic programs.  U.S. News & World Report includes Georgia Tech on its annual list of the 10 U.S. public universities.  Within Georgia Tech, the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, for instance, has been ranked as the best of its class for more than a decade.  Georgia Tech students are in great demand; let us help you find the talent you need for your company’s future.

Contact Us:

Ned Ellington, Director
404-385-7287
ned.ellington@innovate.gatech.edu

Elizabeth Faye Downey
404-385-3829
faye.downey@innovate.gatech.edu

Joy Hymel
404-385-3629
joy.hymel@innovate.gatech.edu

Greg King
478-471-5398
greg.king@innovate.gatech.edu

Carl Rust
404-385-7405
carl.rust@innovate.gatech.edu

Ann Schmierer
404-385-2259
ann.schmierer@innovate.gatech.edu

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