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Carl Rust, associate vice president for international initiatives and principal director for industry collaboration at Tech, and Ernesto Escobar, program manager for innovation partnerships in EI2\u2019s Startup Ecosystems group, gave Robl an overview of the Institute\u2019s different economic development programs \u2014 all designed to strengthen business activity across the state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe also toured the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), the Georgia Tech incubator that works with entrepreneurs across Georgia with technology startups they want to launch and grow in the state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe are looking at entrepreneurship not only to help emerging economies, but also to help the U.S. economy,\u201d Robl said. \u201cBy making connections, especially with small business in innovation and with innovative entrepreneurs, it was perfect to come here to ATDC and to take a look at some of the startups to talk about some of the programs we\u2019re involved in, like \u2018La Idea.\u2019 \u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u201cLa Idea\u201d initiative brings entrepreneurs from emerging economies across Latin America to the United States to learn about the incubation and startup processes from different entities, including Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003ERobl\u2019s visit also included meetings with city and state economic development officials and small Georgia companies that export to Latin America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIt was really interesting to see how Georgia Tech is plugging into that and also the interdisciplinary nature of what\u2019s going on here,\u201d Robl said. \u201cIt\u2019s really cutting edge.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs part of an economic development tour of Atlanta, Terri Robl, director of economic policy and summit coordination in the U.S. State Department\u2019s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, came to campus April 7 to study the ways that the Georgia Institute of Technology works with entrepreneurs.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As part of an economic development tour of Atlanta, Terri Robl, director of economic policy and summit coordination in the U.S. State Department\u2019s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, came to campus to study ways Georgia Tech works with entrepreneurs."}],"uid":"28797","created_gmt":"2016-04-07 15:20:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:17","author":"Lance Wallace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"522581":{"id":"522581","type":"image","title":"Terri Robl visit","body":null,"created":"1460134800","gmt_created":"2016-04-08 17:00:00","changed":"1475895291","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:51","alt":"Terri Robl visit","file":{"fid":"206070","name":"terrirobl2.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/terrirobl2.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/terrirobl2.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1596035,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/terrirobl2.jpeg?itok=-wW0oUmN"}},"522591":{"id":"522591","type":"image","title":"Terri Robl at ATDC","body":null,"created":"1460134800","gmt_created":"2016-04-08 17:00:00","changed":"1475895291","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:51","alt":"Terri Robl at ATDC","file":{"fid":"206071","name":"terrirobl.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/terrirobl.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/terrirobl.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1464081,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/terrirobl.jpeg?itok=7S6eecmM"}}},"media_ids":["522581","522591"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171900","name":"Carl Rust"},{"id":"3671","name":"Enterprise Innovation Institute"},{"id":"171901","name":"Ernesto Escobar"},{"id":"170087","name":"Terri Robl"},{"id":"51311","name":"U.S. State Department"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPeralte Paul\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:peralte.paul@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eperalte.paul@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Peralte.paul@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}