{"398831":{"#nid":"398831","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Oberste One of Nine Graduate Students Accepted Into TI:GER Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGTMI Graduate Research Assistant, MSE Ph.D. Candidate, and Cytec Doctoral Fellow Christopher M. Oberste was recently named one of nine GT graduate students accepted into the TI:GER program. The TI:GER program may be his ticket to the successful commercialization of his research on printed composites.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETI:GER is housed at the GT Scheller School of Business. According to the school\u2019s website:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETI:GER teaches students that the main hurdles to commercializing research are seldom technology-related. More often they involve legal issues and problems interfacing with the public and market.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E TI:GER takes an interdisciplinary approach to surmounting those obstacles, assembling students who win acceptance into the highly competitive program into five member teams. These teams include two MBAs and two law students who focus on the commercialization of a PhD student\u2019s research. Students from the science, engineering and computing disciplines at Georgia Tech are eligible to apply for TI:GER, which is housed at Georgia Tech College of Business.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E TI:GER teams work together in the classroom and research lab to learn how to:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAdvance early-stage research into real business opportunities.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EComprehend the economic, regulatory, and legal mechanisms affecting the venture-creation process (including patent drafting and law).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMaximize the commercial potential of emergent research by considering market goals at an early stage of innovation.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUnderstand how the potential market application of technology can influence research direction and priorities.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETI:GER students benefit from assigned business and legal mentors as well as meeting with industry representatives at biannual advisory board meetings. They also engage in consulting projects for startup companies associated with ATDC, Georgia\u0027s business incubator located at Georgia Tech. The program has received funding from 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.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGTMI Graduate Research Assistant, MSE Ph.D. Candidate \u0026amp; Cytec Doctoral Fellow Christopher M. Oberste was recently named one of nine GT graduate students accepted into the TI:GER program. The TI:GER program may be his ticket to the successful commercialization of his research on printed composites.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The TI:GER program may be Oberste\u0027s ticket to the successful commercialization of his research on printed composites."}],"uid":"28069","created_gmt":"2015-04-23 15:22:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:03","author":"Laura Day","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/tiger\/","title":"TI:GER Program Information"}],"groups":[{"id":"155831","name":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"5494","name":"composites"},{"id":"112071","name":"Georgia Tech Manufactuing Institute"},{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Day Reilly, APR\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarketing Communications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.reilly@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}