Instilling entrepreneurial confidence in every student is a central value to commercialization goals here at Georgia Tech. Students at Georgia Tech can tap into an entire ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship resources on campus and also in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area.
Whether your major is engineering, liberal arts, or any path in between, there are opportunities, resources, and personnel ready to support your ideas. Our ecosystem includes classes, programs, student organizations, maker spaces, hackathons, accelerators, internships, mentors, pitch competitions, funding, and more.
You can invent your future at Georgia Tech.
Start Your Journey Today
- Sign up for a class or program with CREATE-X
- Take a course or adopt a major/minor/certificate related to entrepreneurship, commercialization, or innovation
- Save the dates for upcoming events
- Sign up for newsletters and mailing lists so you never miss opportunities, events and updates
- Find an internship with a startup or related to commercializing research
Explore Resources for Students
CREATE-X offers business and venture advice to students at various stages, from ideation to Startup Launch. CREATE-X also offers opportunities for students to connect with experienced entrepreneurs and industry veterans to talk about the big problems that are worth solving by new startups.
CREATE-X offers programs that earn academic credits, as well as co-curricular opportunities.
CREATE-X Startup Launch is a program for Georgia Tech students who want to launch their projects from idea stage (or beyond) into fully functioning and viable startups. Teams accepted into the program receive $5,000 in seed funding and $30,000 worth of in-kind services including coaching and mentorship, pro-bono legal incorporation services, accounting services, access to co-working office space, and access to prominent investors at Demo Day.
CREATE-X Startup Launch is a program for Georgia Tech students who want to launch their projects from idea stage (or beyond) into fully functioning and viable startups. Teams accepted into the program receive $5,000 in seed funding and $30,000 worth of in-kind services including coaching and mentorship, pro-bono legal incorporation services, accounting services, access to co-working office space, and access to prominent investors at Demo Day.
Quadrant-i is the newest addition to the Office of Commercialization and is dedicated to helping faculty, researchers, and students translate their research into startups.
ATDC offers internships to Georgia Tech students. Current openings are posted on the "ATDC Company Job Board" page (atdc.org/atdc-jobs).
PTRC provides free patent and trademark related training and research consultation to students, faculty and staff on the Georgia Tech campus, as well as public access.
Scheller College of Business offers an academic track for graduate students (MBA/Ph.D.) called TI:GER (Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results) that prepares students to work with CDL-Atlanta startups.
The Engage Internship is an intense, year-round practicum and education program designed to enhance the higher education experience by employing undergraduate and graduate students on ambitious, long-term, large-scale, multidisciplinary project teams.
GCMI has a 12,000 square foot medical device design and prototyping center where we help innovators, entrepreneurs and new-product teams bring their ideas from concept to reality.
The Biolocity internship program is designed to provide aspiring health technology professionals with the ability to assess market potential for early-stage technologies. Interns are trained to assist in healthcare technology assessment, including market assessment.
InVenture Prize is an innovation competition for undergraduate students and recent alumni, led by Georgia Tech faculty.
Finalists in the InVenture Prize competition receive prizes up to $20,000.
The Prototyping Lab is a space maintained by the GVU Center to allow researchers and students to rapidly prototype new ideas. Participants use industry standard equipment and collaborate with other builders and makers.
Operated as a student organization, the Invention Studio supports all Georgia Tech students, staff, and faculty in building projects and prototypes for research, academic and personal purposes. The studio facility has four major areas: The Hub, Metal Room, Wood Room, and Store.
Pivot is a comprehensive global source of funding opportunities. All Georgia Tech researchers have access to Pivot, courtesy of an enterprise license made possible by the Vice President for Research Administration and the Office of Sponsored Programs.
IdeaBuzz is a service of the Student Innovation Program. Innovation Coaches will meet with you to talk about your venture idea, and help you chart a path utilizing campus and community resources.
The Student Innovation Program offers a calendar of events that combines workshops, speaker events, competitions and more -- all available to Georgia Tech students by colleges and units across campus.
The Student Innovation Program's website offers lists and links of funding resources for students to consider -- from grants to crowd sourcing opportunities.
Cofounder Buzz is a service offered by the Student Innovation Program that helps students find cofounders or build or join teams to start companies or advance commercialization goals.
If you want to see the next round of CREATE-X start ups and meet their exceptional founders, then you should attend the CREATE-X Demo-Day. The annual event features 80+ startups focusing on a range of business areas.
If you want to see the next round of CREATE-X start ups and meet their exceptional founders, then you should attend the CREATE-X Demo-Day. The annual event features 80+ startups focusing on a range of business areas.
The Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (GT-RNOC) accelerates innovation in networking, computing, sensing, mobility and convergence by enabling communities of collaboration. Through partnerships with industry and community partners, GT-RNOC provides and maintains a unique end-to-end infrastructure within an operational setting, giving access to world class students, researchers, and innovators from various disciplines across Georgia Tech's research and academic units.
The Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) is dedicated to helping students create and showcase innovative and viable products and experiences with the support of campus and industry resources and guidance. CIC categories are determined by community and industry partners. Winning entries will include a viable end-to-end prototype which operates on converged services, media, networks, and/or platforms. CIC entries can be based on class projects, student research projects, as well as personal hobbies and interests.
The Enterprise 6 program is open to undergraduate and graduate students who were enrolled at Georgia Tech. Selected students will be mentored by a research faculty member. Enterprise 6 interns will meet remotely on a bi-weekly basis to share observations about their experiences.
CareerBuzz is a state-of-the-art interview and job posting management system. The CareerBuzz system enables Students to upload resumes, search and apply for full time, part time, and internship positions, sign up for on-campus interviews and more.