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

该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)培养一支拥有促进创新所需知识和技能的专业劳动力队伍，以及(Ii)研究，以提高我们对商业组织和经济、法规和法律机制如何促进或阻碍新技术的开发和传播的理解。来自佐治亚理工学院/埃默里大学生物医学工程系和NSF-Engineering Research Center(ERC)人体组织工程、制造研究中心、微电子研究中心、微型机电系统和NSF-ERC包装研究中心的教职员工正在与佐治亚理工学院杜普里管理学院、埃默里法学院和埃默里经济系的教职员工合作。该计划的核心是由国家科学基金会资助的博士生、分担费用的工商管理硕士和法学博士学生组成的团队，他们在两年的时间里参与与科学和工程(S和安培)学生研究相关的技术、市场和法律问题的活动。这种多学科团队合作模式的目的是：(I)为S商学院的学生提供在行业中取得成功所需的技能和多学科视角；(Ii)撰写S商学院关于技术价值和市场相关性的学位论文；(Iii)促成管理和法律经济学专业的学位论文，以提高我们对创新的理解；以及(Iv)为MBA和法学博士提供在技术研究环境中的实践经验。教育特色包括两门研究生级别的创新基础课程和一门专门为IGERT开发的案例课程，所有学生都将其作为一个学生社区，大学范围内的创新基础研讨会和研讨会，法学和经济学博士和博士的知识产权轨道，S博士和电子博士的创新管理辅修课程，这是启动管理学和法学的正式机制；IGERT是一项针对创新、实习和与行业合作伙伴的频繁互动的博士级别的经济学研究，以及每年一次的面向全国大学的研究生创新博士研究所。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，旨在应对培养具有多学科背景的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第五年，将向21个机构颁发奖项，这些机构的项目共同涵盖了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.