{"211211":{"#nid":"211211","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ATDC Wins Honors from Forbes \u2013 Again","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EForbes\u003C\/em\u003E magazine has named the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech as one of the \u201cBusiness Incubators Changing the World.\u201d The magazine worked with CB insights, a New York firm that tracks funding trends, to identify a dozen \u201cespecially crackling innovations hubs\u201d from among more than 300 candidates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis national recognition of the impact ATDC is having is a credit to our entrepreneurs,\u0022 said Blake Patton, ATDC\u2019s interim general manager. \u201cOur company founders are building innovative tech enterprises that are solving big problems. Their ingenuity and drive have helped us create a unique environment that accelerates a startup\u0027s success.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn its description of ATDC, \u003Cem\u003EForbes\u003C\/em\u003E noted that since 1980, the center has launched more than 120 companies that have collectively raised more than $1 billion in outside financing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EATDC was the only incubator in the Southeast to make the \u003Cem\u003EForbes\u003C\/em\u003E list. Others selected were Y Combinator (Mountain View, Calif.), Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (Worchester, Mass.), Houston Technology Center, Palo Alto Research Center, Technology Innovation Center (Evanston, Ill.), The Icehouse (Auckland, New Zealand), the Research Park at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MGE innovation Center (Madison, Wis.), the Environmental Business Cluster (San Jose, Calif.), Seedcamp, (London, UK) and Dreamit Ventures (Philadelphia).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2010, \u003Cem\u003EForbes\u003C\/em\u003E named ATDC to its list of the\u201c10 technology incubators that are changing the world.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EForbes magazine has named the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech as one of the \u201cBusiness Incubators Changing the World.\u201d\u0026nbsp; The magazine worked with CB insights, a New York firm that tracks funding trends, to identify a dozen \u201cespecially crackling innovations hubs\u201d from among more than 300 candidates.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ATDC, Georgia Tech\u0027s technology incubator, has won recognition again from Forbes Magazine."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2013-05-03 09:27:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:12","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9193","name":"accelerator"},{"id":"4238","name":"atdc"},{"id":"4239","name":"incubator"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch News\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(404-894-6986)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}