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Regional Innovation: The Role of Georgia Tech and I-Corps
Stephen Fleming Vice President
<[email protected]>@stephenfleming
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Agenda
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IntroductionGeorgia Tech and the
Southeastern U.S.What We Now Know!NSF I-CorpsLessons LearnedRole of the UniversityQ&A
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Stephen Fleming
20+ years venture capital investment experience.
BS, Physics, Georgia Tech (Highest Honors).
15 years operational experience at AT&T Bell Labs, Nortel, LICOM (venture-backed startup).
Occasional instructor in Georgia Tech undergrad & MBA entrepreneurship programs.
Joined Georgia Tech staff in 2005; now Vice President, Enterprise Innovation Institute.
Atlanta native; regional technology leader.
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Agenda
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IntroductionGeorgia Tech and the
Southeastern U.S.What We Now Know!NSF I-CorpsLessons LearnedRole of the UniversityQ&A
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Capital of the Southeast
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Capital of the Southeast
$3.6 trillion GDP: 4th largest in the world!
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Capital of the Southeast
Southeast region GDP: $3.6 trillion
#4 behind China, India, Japan
Population: 81 million 25% of USA 50% of USA net migration
Metro Atlanta $300 billion GDP
Population 5.7 million
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Capital of the Southeast
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About Georgia Tech
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23,000 graduate and undergraduate students in the heart of Atlanta… and beyond. –Engineering — Management — Computing –Science — Architecture — Liberal Arts
5,000 int’l students (China, India, Korea…) 800,000 MOOC students.
Largest engineering school in the USA.
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U.S. News & World Report, America’s Best Engineering Graduate Schools 2015
National Rankings
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1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology2. Stanford University3. University of California — Berkeley4. California Institute of Technology (CalTech)5. Carnegie Mellon University6. Georgia Institute of Technology6. (tie) University of Illinois — Urbana-Champaign 8. Purdue University8. (tie) University of Michigan — Ann Arbor10. University of Texas — Austin
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/eng/search
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Aerospace #5
Biomedical #2
Chemical #10 Industrial #1
Civil #5 Materials #9
Computer #7 Mechanical #5
Electrical #6 Nuclear #8
Environmental #4 Agricultural N/A
24th Year!
Strength across the board!
National Rankings
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U.S. News & World Report, America’s Best Engineering Graduate Schools 2015
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5/26/2015 Atlanta’s Innovation Ecosystem
VentureLab
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1 Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship Rice University United States
2 VentureLab Georgia Tech United States
3 UB Technology Incubator State University of New York, Buffalo United States
4 NDRC LaunchPad Trinity College Dublin Ireland
5 SETsquared Universities of Bath... United Kingdom
6 Innovation Centre University of the Sunshine Coast Australia
7 Tech 20/20 University of Tennessee United States
8 ATP Innovations University of Sydney Australia
9 STING KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
10 NCTU Innovation Incubation Center National Chiao Tung University Taiwan
 Engineering/Science Incubator#1 Early Stage Incubator
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5/26/2015 Atlanta’s Innovation Ecosystem 13
April 2013
12 Business Incubators That Are Changing the World
ATDC
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GT in the Heart of Atlanta
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GT as an Innovation Hub
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Faculty
Staff
Students
Entrepreneurs
Technology Community
Venture Capitalists
Angel Investors
State Government
Federal Agencies
Industrial Partners
Local Communities
National and International
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Agenda
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IntroductionGeorgia Tech and the
Southeastern U.S.What We Now Know!NSF I-CorpsLessons LearnedRole of the UniversityQ&A
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What We Now Know!
Since 1995, the U.S. has conducted a trillion-dollar experiment in how to launch and scale successful companies.
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NASDAQ
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What We Now Know!
We know something now that we didn’t know before...
We know how to build startups.
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What We Now Know!
We know something now that we didn’t know before...
We know how to build startups.
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Startup = Search
“A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” —Steve Blank
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Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship
“A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” —Steve Blank
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Startup = Search Company = Execution
Discover
1/3 of the time. 5% of the money.
“Fail fast, fail often.”
2/3 of the time. 95% of the money.
“Make it real.”
Validate Create Build
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Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship
The scientific method applies to business!
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We Knew This Before...
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“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.” – Thomas Edison
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Testing Hypotheses
Make a hypothesis about an element of your business model canvas. –Tip: If it can’t be easily falsified, it’s probably not a
good hypothesis.
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Testing Hypotheses
Develop a controlled experiment –Change only one variable at a time –Experimental vs. control samples
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Testing Hypotheses
Conduct that experiment against real-world customers of your product or service. –Don’t sell.
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The Value of Experiments
“If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong… It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess… If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong.”
—Richard Feynman
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Testing Hypotheses
Congratulations! You have learned something. Now, do it again.
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???Fact!
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The Big Secret...
Do this over 100 times.
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(Really.)
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There Is No Substitute!
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
—Mark Twain
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Agenda
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IntroductionGeorgia Tech and the
Southeastern U.S.What We Now Know!NSF I-CorpsLessons LearnedRole of the UniversityQ&A
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NSF I-Corps
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NSF I-Corps
National Science Foundation Innovation Corps –Developing entrepreneurial knowledge in
university scientists and engineers –Built on Stanford’s Lean LaunchPad course –Curriculum initially led by Silicon Valley
investors and entrepreneurs –Georgia Tech was one of first two
universities chosen by NSF to scale I-Corps nationwide
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Changing Research Culture
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NSF I-Corps Nodes
Seven nodes, 18 institutions active (2015)35
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Bay Area Stanford UC Berkeley UC-SF
DC Area U Maryland GWU Virginia Tech Johns Hopkins
NYC Area CUNY NYU Columbia
Georgia Tech
U Michigan
Georgia Tech
U Michigan
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❸Texas
UT-Austin Rice
Texas A&M
❸So. California USC
UCLA Caltech
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GT Innovation Ecosystem
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On Campus...
In the Community...
...and Beyond!
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I-Corps Beyond Campus
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I-Corps Beyond Campus
GT experience: 7 US national cohorts 30 regional cohorts
•8 universities •4 US states, Puerto
Rico, and France …and more to come!
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Puerto Rico
Metz, France
Over 400 teams
and counting!
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Agenda
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IntroductionGeorgia Tech and the
Southeastern U.S.What We Now Know!NSF I-CorpsLessons LearnedRole of the UniversityQ&A
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First Lesson: It Works!
✓ The methodology works across all research areas.
✓ Team agnostic; adaptable to other cultures.
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Fact!
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Inspires Entrepreneurship
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Experience Beats Lectures
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Shock and Awe?
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Shock and Awe?
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Failing ≠ Failure!
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Suspicion of Success
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Respect for Hierarchy
Major issue in France, but not in US or Puerto Rico.47
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Travel Can Be a Burden
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How to Scale
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Agenda
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IntroductionGeorgia Tech and the
Southeastern U.S.What We Now Know!NSF I-CorpsLessons LearnedRole of the UniversityQ&A
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We’re Not the Valley
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What Worked in the Valley?
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What Works?
Free markets Availability of capital Intellectual property protection Collaborative culture & social networks Flexible career paths Welcoming to outsiders & immigrants Meritocratic advancement Acceptance of failure as learning experience Continuous replenishment –Of bright young people –Of interesting new technologies
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For Further Information
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Stephen Fleming Vice President, Enterprise Innovation Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology http://innovate.gatech.edu
Personal blog: http://www.academicvc.com Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @stephenfleming
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For Further Information
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Stephen Fleming Vice President, Enterprise Innovation Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology http://innovate.gatech.edu
Personal blog: http://www.academicvc.com Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @stephenfleming
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