IGERT: Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER)

这个IGERT项目是一个多学科培训计划，旨在满足社会从技术发现中受益的两个关键需求：(i)培养具有促进创新所需知识和技能的专业劳动力；（ii）开展研究，提高我们对商业组织和经济、监管和法律机制如何促进或阻碍新技术的发展和传播的理解。来自乔治亚理工学院/埃默里大学生物医学工程系和美国国家科学基金会工程研究中心（ERC）人体组织工程、制造研究中心、微电子研究中心、微机电系统和NSF-ERC包装研究中心的教师正在与乔治亚理工学院杜普雷管理学院、埃默里法学院和埃默里经济系的教师合作。该项目的核心是由美国国家科学基金会资助的博士生、成本分担的工商管理硕士（MBA）和法学博士（JD）组成的团队，他们在两年的时间里参与与科学和工程（S&amp；E）学生研究相关的技术、市场和法律问题的活动。这种多学科团队的方法旨在(i)为标普学生提供在行业中取得成功所需的技能和多学科视角，（ii）制作具有技术价值和市场相关性的标普学位论文，（iii）促进管理和法律经济学方面的论文，提高我们对创新的理解，以及（iv）为mba和法学博士提供技术研究环境中的实践经验。教育特色包括两门研究生水平的创新基础课程和一门为所有学生参与的IGERT专门开发的案例课程，作为一个学生社区，大学范围的创新基础研讨会和研讨会，知识产权课程为法学和经济学的法学博士和博士提供，创新管理副修课程为法学博士和经济学博士提供，正式启动管理学和法学经济学博士层面的创新研究机制、实习和与行业合作伙伴的频繁互动，以及面向全国高校研究生的年度创新博士研究所。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足培养具有多学科背景和技术，专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，以满足未来职业需求。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第五年，奖项将颁发给21个机构，这些机构的项目共同跨越了NSF支持的科学和工程领域。

This IGERT project is a multidisciplinary training program addressing two needs that are critical if society is to benefit from technological discoveries: (i) preparation of a professional workforce with the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate innovation, and (ii) research that improves our understanding of how business organizations and economic, regulatory, and legal mechanisms promote or impede the development and diffusion of new technologies. Faculty from the joint Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University Department of Biomedical Engineering and NSF-Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Engineering of Human Tissues, Manufacturing Research Center, Microelectronics Research Center, Microelectromechanical Systems, and NSF-ERC Packaging Research Center are collaborating with faculty in the Georgia Tech DuPree College of Management, Emory Law School, and Emory Economics Department. Central to the program are teams of NSF-funded PhD students, cost-shared Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Doctor of Jurisprudence students (JD) who participate over a two year period in activities focused on technical, market, and legal issues related to the science and engineering (S&E) students' research. This multidisciplinary team approach is designed to (i) provide S&E students with the skills and multidisciplinary perspective needed to succeed in industry, (ii) produce S&E dissertations of technical merit and market relevance, (iii) facilitate dissertations in management and law & economics that improve our understanding of innovation, and (iv) provide MBAs and JDs with practical experience in a technical research environment. Educational features include two graduate level courses on the Fundamentals of Innovation and a case course developed specifically for this IGERT that all student participants take as a community of students, universities-wide seminar & workshop on Innovation Fundamentals, Intellectual Property Track for the JDs and PhDs in Law & Economics, a Minor in the Management of Innovation for S&E PhDs, a formal mechanism to initiate management and law & economics research at the doctoral level on innovation, internships and frequent interaction with industrial partners, and an annual Doctoral Research Institute on Innovation for graduate students invited from universities nationwide.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.