Georgia Tech Research - Your Path to Commercialization

Georgia Tech Research - Your Path to Commercialization

Georgia Tech Commercialization is a cornerstone in transitioning the university's leading-edge research into real-world applications. There are four pivotal units within Georgia Tech Commercialization: CREATE-X, VentureLab, Quadrant-i, and Technology Licensing.

  • CREATE-X: Empowers students and faculty to launch their startups through guidance, funding, and resources, fostering a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
  • Quadrant-i,: The newest addition to the Office of Commercialization, is dedicated to helping faculty, researchers, and students translate their research into startups. 
  • VentureLab : Provides comprehensive commercialization support, transforming Georgia Tech's research into viable businesses.
  • Technology Licensing: Manages intellectual property, facilitating the transfer of groundbreaking inventions from the lab to the marketplace. 

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Your Idea Belongs at Georgia Tech

A complete ecosystem of people, programs, and facilities are in place to support ideas and ventures from inception to launch and beyond. We will help connect you with the right resources, advisors, and opportunities at any stage of commercialization or ideation. Our vision is to attract and nurture the best entrepreneurial minds, to become a thought leader in redefining commercialization in academia, and to become the #1 university for positive impact through technology and talent.

Featured Story

From Lab to Fab, Commercialization at Georgia Tech Makes its Mark

The Georgia Institute of Technology fully embraced its evolving role as an entrepreneurial hub when it created a new dual-position, vice president of commercialization and chief commercialization officer, and then named Raghupathy “Siva” Sivakumar to fill it. A computer engineering professor who helped start three technology companies and launched a successful student entrepreneurship program, Sivakumar feels well equipped for the role he took on during the fall semester in 2021.

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Events

Friday

December
06

"Communication: "Effectively Communicating and Coming Together to Work as a Unified Team"
Tuesday

December
10

"Human Capital - The Importance of People to the Success/Failure of a Start-up" - Samir Patel, Moonlight Therapeutics
Tuesday

December
10

Meet with a Quadrant-i Principal to discuss the patent process and commercialization opportunities for your research.
Wednesday

December
11

RSVP by 12/9 - Complimentary registration for Georgia Tech faculty, students, employees!

Announcements

In 2020, the James G. and Dee H. Pope Faculty Fellows Endowment Fund was established to provide for five Jim Pope Fellows per year to serve as instructors, mentors, and advisors to students participating in CREATE-X.
Mary Albertson has stepped into the director role for the Office of Technology Licensing at Georgia Tech, managing all inventions, patents, and licensing.
Emory University and Georgia Tech have announced the inaugural recipients of $100,000 in seed funding from their collaborative AI.Humanity program.

News

Josh Luber, co-founder of StockX, zerocool, Fanatics Collectibles, speaks to Georgia Tech students
Josh Luber, co-founder of StockX, shared his entrepreneurial journey and insights on resilience and innovation with Georgia Tech students at the CREATE-X Deep Startups workshop.
From left, Georgia Tech’s Nakia Melecio, Keith McGreggor, and Raghupathy “Siva” Sivakumar, are the NSF I-Corps Southeast Hub director, faculty lead, and principal investigator, respectively.
Multi-state I-Corps Hubs project designed to strengthen regional innovation ecosystem and address inequities in access to capital and commercialization opportunities
Georgia Tech-Tech Ready Grant Award Winners
The Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) is pleased to announce the recipients of this round of Tech Ready Grants, designed to help Georgia Tech faculty take their innovative research from the lab to market success.