{"81311":{"#nid":"81311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Advanced Technology Development Center Wins Award for Technology-led Economic Development Efforts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes the Advanced Technology Development Center\u0027s commitment to sound, research-based, market driven economic development in helping grow the local economy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m honored to recognize Georgia Tech\u0027s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) for its outstanding efforts to empower Georgia residents by attracting private sector investments and creating higher-skill, higher-wage jobs.  This award is a great example of our appreciation of organizations like this one to help grow the economy and create jobs for local citizens,\u0022 said Commerce Secretary Don Evans.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The winners of EDA\u0027s Excellence Awards represent the best and brightest economic development methods and practices in use today.  Their commitment to sound, research-based, market driven economic development is helping America\u0027s communities grow their economies and create jobs.  I am grateful for their participation in our national awards program,\u0022 said Assistant Secretary for Economic Development David A. Sampson.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The ATDC plays a vital role in helping Georgia realize the economic development potential of technology-based start-up companies,\u0022 said Wayne Hodges, Georgia Tech\u0027s vice-provost for Economic Development and Technology Ventures and director of the ATDC.  \u0022We very much appreciate this recognition from the Department of Commerce.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Commerce Department\u0027s Economic Development Administration (EDA) gives the award.  The Commerce Department also awarded other organizations across the country with Excellence in Economic Development Awards for Excellence in Community and Faith-based Economic Development; Excellence in Economic Adjustment; Excellence in Innovation; Excellence in Regional Competitiveness; Excellence in Technology-led Economic Development; Excellence in Urban or Suburban Economic Development; and Excellence in Rural Economic Development. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENominations for EDA\u0027s Excellence Awards are made in specific categories announced each year and nominees are evaluated by a selection panel appointed by the Assistant Secretary for Economic Development.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWinners receive their awards at the EDA National Conference \u0022The Innovation Imperative - Translating Ideas Into Regional Prosperity\u0022 held June 8th through June 10th, 2004 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.   The ATDC\u0027s award was accepted by Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough - who was also a speaker at the conference - and ATDC General Manager Tony Antoniades.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe EDA National Conference brings together successful grassroots practitioners and top national experts to discuss how to turn America\u0027s ideas into more marketable products, processes, services, and most importantly, more new jobs here at home. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEDA serves as a venture capital resource to meet the economic development needs of distressed communities throughout the United States.  EDA partners with states, units of local government and community nonprofit organizations in economically distressed areas, regions and communities in order to alleviate conditions of poverty and substantial and persistent unemployment and underemployment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditional information on how EDA investments are helping distressed communities create a positive and sustainable economic future can be accessed at:  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.doc.gov\/eda\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.doc.gov\/eda\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.doc.gov\/eda\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the ATDC\u003C\/strong\u003E: Georgia Tech\u0027s Advanced Technology Development Center is a nationally recognized science and technology incubator that helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies, providing strategic business advice and connecting its member companies to the people and resources they need to succeed. More than 100 companies have emerged from the ATDC, including publicly-traded firms such as MindSpring Enterprises - now part of EarthLink. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHeadquartered at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ATDC has been recognized by \u003Cem\u003EInc\u003C\/em\u003E Magazine as one of the nation\u0027s top nonprofit incubators. ATDC was formed in 1980 to stimulate growth in Georgia\u0027s technology business base, and now has locations in Atlanta, Columbus, Savannah and Warner Robins. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDepartment of Commerce Information\u003C\/strong\u003E: Matthew Crow (303-482-4085).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATDC News \u0026amp; Information\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.toon@atdc.org\u0022\u003Ejohn.toon@atdc.org\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Advanced Technology Development Center has received recognition from the U.S. Commerce Department as the winner of the department\u0027s 2004 Technology-led Excellence in Economic Development Award.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-06-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:38","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=\u0022\u003EContact  \u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}