{"46278":{"#nid":"46278","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Stephen Fleming Chosen to Head Enterprise Innovation Institute","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStephen Fleming has been named vice provost of Georgia Tech\u0027s Enterprise Innovation Institute, the nation\u0027s largest and most comprehensive university-based program of assistance to business and industry.  Since 2005, Fleming has served as Georgia Tech\u0027s chief commercialization officer and led the Enterprise Innovation Institute\u0027s Commercialization Services Division in creating new companies based on research discoveries.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA venture capitalist and former telecom engineer with a degree in theoretical physics, Fleming will succeed Wayne Hodges, who retired recently after a 40-year career at Georgia Tech.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In these challenging times, I am very pleased that someone with Stephen\u0027s experience, leadership, enthusiasm and drive has elected to take on this very important position,\u0022 said Mark Allen, senior vice provost for research and innovation at Georgia Tech.  \u0022The size, scope and success of the Enterprise Innovation Institute are among the key differentiators for Georgia Tech among leading institutions around the world, and are essential to Georgia Tech\u0027s core mission of disseminating technological discoveries and enhancing technology\u0027s impact.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EState budget cuts have significantly reduced support for the Enterprise Innovation Institute, and Fleming has said that broadening the organization\u0027s financial base will be among his top priorities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Though we\u0027ve done our best to align our costs with our projected state, federal and private-sector dollars, we must continue to seek other sources of funding to fuel the job-creating engine that Georgia needs,\u0022 Fleming said.  \u0022I am excited about the challenges ahead as we more fully apply the resources of Georgia Tech to help build Georgia\u0027s economy. Our strength is based on the people in the Enterprise Innovation Institute.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith approximately 200 staff members and students, the Enterprise Innovation Institute includes five major divisions:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP), a division of the Enterprise Innovation Institute\u0027s Industry Services, which provides direct technical assistance and professional education to help companies become more competitive in world markets;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* Entrepreneur Services, which includes the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia Tech\u0027s science and technology incubator, which helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* Strategic Partners, which serves as an industry-centric doorway into Georgia Tech for companies seeking multi-faceted interdisciplinary research;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* Community Policy and Research Services, which helps government at all levels address the challenges of technology-based economic development, and \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* Commercialization Services, which evaluates Georgia Tech inventions and helps form startup companies around commercially-promising technologies. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFleming praised Hodges, who led the development of the Enterprise Innovation Institute and served as director of the ATDC for more than 20 years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Enterprise Innovation Institute is widely seen as the model for 21st century technology-based economic development organizations at research universities,\u0022 said Fleming.  \u0022What Georgia Tech has today in the Enterprise Innovation Institute is due to Wayne Hodges\u0027 vision, creativity and tenacity.  Through his hard work and support from Georgia Tech and partner organizations such as the Georgia Research Alliance, we have an organization that universities around the world would like to emulate.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFleming has more than 13 years of private equity experience at the general partner level. Prior to his venture capital career, he spent 15 years in operations roles at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories, Nortel Networks, and LICOM -- a venture-funded startup. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn Atlanta native and summa cum laude graduate of Georgia Tech, Fleming is active in the \u0022alternative space\u0022 industry -- an investor in three private aerospace companies and is a founding member of the Space Angels Network. He also serves on the boards of trustees for the Spiritual Living Center of Atlanta and for Tech High School, a charter high school emphasizing science, math and technology in urban Atlanta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFleming is a member of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America and a number of regional technology organizations.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEnterprise Innovation Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Nancy Fullbright (404-894-2214); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nancy.fullbright@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enancy.fullbright@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Stephen Fleming has been named vice provost of Georgia Tech\u0027s Enterprise Innovation Institute, the nation\u0027s largest and most comprehensive university-based program of assistance to business and industry.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech names Stephen Fleming at Enterprise Innovation Inst"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2009-07-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:14","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46279":{"id":"46279","type":"image","title":"Stephen Fleming","body":null,"created":"1449174375","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:26:15","changed":"1475894414","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:14","alt":"Stephen Fleming","file":{"fid":"101065","name":"thc77449.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thc77449_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thc77449_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1724427,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thc77449_0.jpg?itok=RVNVpIEt"}}},"media_ids":["46279"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.innovate.gatech.edu\/","title":"Enterprise Innovation Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4238","name":"atdc"},{"id":"2579","name":"commercialization"},{"id":"3671","name":"Enterprise Innovation Institute"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}