TI:GER (Technical Innovation: Generating Economic Results)
The Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) program is a one-of-a-kind approach to preparing students for the challenges of commercializing new technologies and delivering innovative products to the market place.
TI:GER is a collaboration between various Georgia Tech colleges and the Emory University School of Law that brings together law, economics, management, and science and engineering graduate students in a classroom and research environment. TI:GER combines classroom instruction, team-based activities, and internship opportunities into a total education experience.
Central to the program are teams of PhD candidates, MBA, and law (JD) students working together to solve real technology commercialization and intellectual property protection issues. Students learn how to advance early-stage research into real business opportunities and also develop an appreciation of how potential market application can influence research direction and priorities.
Academically, TI:GER is a two-year program that supplements the student's traditional PhD, MBA, and JD educational tracks. Students are selected for the program by faculty and academic advisors at Georgia Tech and Emory through a competitive application process. Program funding is provided by a variety of sources including a National Science Foundation IGERT grant, the Alan and Mildred Peterson Foundation, the Hal and John Smith Chair in Entrepreneurship, and others.
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TI:GER Faculty Working Papers [8]
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TI:GER Student Working Papers [6]
Working papers from the students of TI:GER.
Recent Submissions
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The Outsourcing of R&D through Acquisitions in the Pharmaceutical Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-02-27)We examine the performance of 160 pharmaceutical acquisitions from 1994-2001 and find evidence that on average acquirers realize significant positive returns. These returns are positively correlated with prior acquirer ... -
Mars-Venus Marriages: Culture and Cross-Border M&A
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-09)We explore different factors affecting the long-term performance of cross-border M&A with a special focus on cultural distance between the countries of the two firms. Using a sample of over 400 cross-border acquisitions ... -
Marketing Strategy Formation in the Commercialization of New Technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004)This research contributes significantly to the current marketing strategy literature by examining the effective formation of marketing strategies for new technologies outside traditional organizational boundaries. This ... -
It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know: A Meta-Analytic Review of Social Networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004)This study uses emerging meta-analytic methods to synthesize empirical studies that examine the correlates of social networks. This study draws upon a database of 208 samples from 88 studies spanning the period of 1975 ... -
Implications of a Multi-Disciplinary Educational and Research Environment: Perspectives of Future Business, Law, Science, and Engineering Professionals
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004)Functioning well in a global, technology-driven, multi-disciplinary environment necessitates a more robust educational paradigm in science and engineering. For a technical education to be complete, it is no longer enough ... -
Does Innovation Mediate Firm Performance?: A Meta-Analysis of Determinants and Consequences of Organizational Innovation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004)This study uses emerging meta-analytic methods, in combination with structural equations methodology, to synthesize empirical studies that examine the correlates (antecedents and/or outcomes) of organizational innovation. ... -
Software Patents: Good News or Bad News?
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Appropriability and the timing of innovation: Evidence from MIT inventions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-04)At least since Arrow (1962), economists have believed that strong property rights are necessary for firms to invest in innovation. This belief was a key principle underlying the Bayh-Dole Act, which gave universities the ... -
Vermeers and Rembrandts in the Same Attic: Complementarity between Copyright and Trademark Leveraging Strategies in Software
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The Disclosure and Licensing of University Inventions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-12)We examine the interplay of the three major university actors in technology transfer from universities to industry: the faculty, the technology transfer office (TTO), and the central administration. We model the faculty ... -
Behind the Patent's Veil: Innovators’ Uses of Patent Continuation Practice, 1975-2002
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-10)This paper employs new data on the use by patentees of continuation applications in the United States from 1975-2002 to shed light on patentees' motivations for and actual uses of the continuation application procedure, a ... -
Hiding in the Patent's Shadow: Firms' Uses of Secrecy to Capture Value from New Discoveries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-10)This paper examines firms’ uses of secrecy and patenting in order to explore three elementary questions of firm intellectual property strategy: First, are there complementarities between patenting and secrecy that firms ... -
Shirking, Shelving and Sharing Risk: The Role of University License Contracts
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Patterns of Research and Licensing Activity of Science and Engineering Faculty
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-04)
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