Talent & Education
Metro Atlanta continues to advance its unique intellectual capital base by building on home-grown talent from centers such as Georgia Tech that boasts the nation’s best industrial engineering program and the globally-focused Logistics Institute (TLI) at Georgia Tech. Talent and innovation from companies like IBM, Manhattan Associates, and UPS, among others, boost the region’s wealth of logistics leaders and supply chain professionals. Our logistics and supply chain cluster continues to innovate to produce ongoing research, new ideas and new companies.
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Atlanta’s Research Universities Meeting R&D Demand
Atlanta Ranks as 4th Major
Research Center in Nation
Total Research Expenditures, FY 2000
| 1 |
Los Angeles, CA |
$829,849,452 |
| 2 |
New York, NY |
$825,009,131 |
| 3 |
Boston, MA-NH |
$783,050,489 |
| 4 |
ATLANTA, GA |
$731,195,419 |
| 5 |
Raleigh-Durham, NC |
$686,242,212 |
Source: www.arche.org, “Higher Education in America’s Metropolitan
Areas, A Statistical Profile,” Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher
Education
In the National Science Foundation’s recent update of U.S. research and development activity, Georgia retained and improved high rankings for its scientific workforce (17th for doctoral scientists), the number of science and engineering degrees awarded (15th for postdoctorates, 16th for graduate-level), and for federal (11th), and academic (12th) spending on R&D in the state.
Four of Georgia’s six research universities—
Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Clark Atlanta University and Emory University—are clustered in metro Atlanta with the others, the University of Georgia and the Medical College of Georgia, less than a two-hour drive away. Two of these research universities offer logistics-related degrees with Georgia Tech leading the bulk of the programs – with its renowned engineering program and Logistics
Institute.
The Logistics Institute (TLI) at Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech)
The Logistics Institute (TLI) at Georgia Tech is the world’s largest research and education center focused on global logistics and supply chains. TLI is headquartered in Atlanta and is a unit of Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering – a world-renowned engineering program that has been ranked number
one by U.S. News and World Report for 13 of the past 14 years. Georgia Tech is a natural home for an institute like TLI, which is devoted to advancing the design and application of new logistics technology and solutions. At the heart of the center is groundbreaking research that translates into educational and industry outreach programs.
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INC MAGAZINE
“Best Places for
Entrepreneurs/
Business”
Large Metros
1. ATLANTA
2. Riverside-San Bernardino, CA
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. San Antonio, TX
5. West Palm Beach, FL
6. Camden, NJ
7. Ft. Lauderdale, FL
8. Jacksonville, FL
9. Newark, NJ
10. Suburban Maryland-D.C.
March 2004 Issue
“We’re taking very advanced
algorithms that are coming
from schools like Georgia
Tech and we’re packaging
them into software that is
fairly easy for our customers
to implement. And we’re
aiming for manufacturers
throughout the globe.”
– Tom Knight, chairman & chief
strategy officer, Atlanta-based
Invistics Corp. ( Atlanta Business
Chronicle Article, 10-20-2003) |
