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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 12th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Stephen: Now, phase 2 [of the Georgia Research Alliance Commercialization Program] – and we go up to Phase 4 – phase 2 is an up to $100,000 grant, again, to the university or universities. Sometimes these are joint ventures between, for example, Georgia Tech and Emory. It

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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Apr 11th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Stephen: One of the larger donors to Georgia Tech Edison Fund is the Charles Edison Fund. That is the fund that was set up by the son of Thomas Edison. They allow us to use the Thomas Edison name.

Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Apr 10th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: On average, how long does a company stay in your incubator? Stephen: It’s all over the map. The life science companies take longer. We actually don’t have a time horizon in mind for our life science companies. They’re so dependent on the underlying science and the

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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Apr 9th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Stephen: As far as technology, we have a database that works internally. For our needs, it’s great. It’s basically a CRM [customer relationship management] system that we developed internally. All our employees get full access to it. The mentors get limited access. The entrepreneurs get even more

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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Apr 8th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Where do your applicants usually come from? Stephen: We do get pretty good coverage of the entrepreneurial opportunities coming out of Georgia Tech. That’s both the spin-out companies, which are based on intellectual property owned by Georgia Tech, and the startups being started by students, those

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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Apr 7th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many companies have been incubated in the past 12 months? Stephen: Right now, it’s about 400. When we are talking about 400, you have to understand that in the new [approach] model, the companies don’t have to be resident in my bricks-and-mortar [incubator]. I’ve got

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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 6th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Stephen Fleming, who is a vice president at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he is currently overseeing the Enterprise Innovation Institute. The institute is focused on helping enterprises improve their competitiveness through the application of science, technology, and innovation. During fiscal

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