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*'''Georgia Tech Invention Studio '''<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px">— student-run design-build-play space open to all Georgia Tech students. It is staffed by University Lab Instructors, student volunteers who are on hand to train new students on machines and help with invention prototypes.The space </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px">provides resources for designing, prototyping, and sharing ideas through workshops, vendor networks, experienced guidance, and access to cutting edge machines.</span><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
*'''Georgia Tech Integrated Program for Startups, GT:IPS''' — An initiative that supports faculty and student inventor-entrepreneurs through two components: '''''GT:IPS Facilitation''''', a graduated program of support, information, and education for new company founders; and '''''GT:IPS License''''', which offers the same terms to all Georgia Tech startups in the same field and provides them with transparency into Georgia Tech Research Corporation’s (GTRC) licensing processes.
*'''Convergence Innovation Competition''' - This is a technology innovation competition organized by the GT RNOC every semester, in to foster innovation in specific areas of technology, like telecommunications and transport. [http://cic.gatech.edu/ http://cic.gatech.edu/]
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'''Design Bloc''' – A classroom and prototyping space that emphasizes design thinking through design behavior. The 5 tenants that students are taught are Empathy, Rapid Iteration, Contextual Awareness, Entrepreneurial Spirit and Creative Craft.
= Faculty Entrepreneurship =
*'''The Georgia Tech Fund for Innovation in Research and Education (GT FIRE)''' — A program that facilitates planning for large extramural proposals — those of strategic value to the Institute that have more than $500,000 in direct costs per year—and provides support for feasibility studies of transformative ideas in research and/or education. This past spring, faculty submitted 42 transformative proposals, from which three research-related ideas and four education-related ideas were selected for funding.
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'''I Corps '''- The [http://venturelab.gatech.edu/nsf-innovation-corps <b>Innovation Corps (I-Corps)</b>] teaches National Science Foundation (NSF) grantees to identify valuable product opportunities that can emerge from academic research and offers entrepreneurship training to student participants. I-Corps is a public-private partnership that prepares students to extend your focus beyond the laboratory by broadening the impact of select, NSF-funded basic-research projects. The primary goal of I-Corps is to foster entrepreneurship that will lead to the commercialization of technology that has been supported by NSF-funded research.
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'''Humanitarian Design and Engineering Studio''' - [http://www.catea.gatech.edu/rearlab.php The Rehabilitation Engineering and Applied Research (REAR) Lab] undertakes applied research and device development targeting the increased heath and function of persons with disabilities. Specific areas of interest include: wheeled mobility and seating, pressure ulcer prevention and treatment; design of diagnostic tissue interrogation devices; design of assistive technology.
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'''Enterprise Innovation Institute''' - The Enterprise Innovation Institute is Georgia Tech’s chief business outreach and economic development organization. The core mission is to help business, industry, entrepreneurs, and economic developers across Georgia grow and remain competitive.
= University Technology Transfer Functions =
<br/>Source: "The Innovative and Entrepreneurial University: Higher Education, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Focus", Department of Commerce, October 2013.
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