Corporate Innovation Centers

With the presence of top-tier research universities – including Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia, Emory University and Georgia State University – and a robust startup density of accelerators, incubators and co-working spaces, Georgia is at the forefront of talent recruitment, technology development, and collaboration across public and private sectors.

Georgia Tech specifically is one of the nation’s leading producers of highly sought-after tech talent, ranking in the Top 5 Engineering Schools in the nation.

• More engineering students enrolled at the graduate level than Berkeley and Stanford combined.
• More female engineers than any other U.S. school.
• No. 1 for output of African-American engineers at the graduate level (No. 2 at the undergraduate level behind North Carolina A&T).
• Innovation for Advanced Computing opens March 2019.

Your company or startup’s success depends on recruiting, training and retaining quality talent. And in Georgia, we are committed to providing the best talent and opportunities in the U.S. for your continued growth.

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Strategically located where Georgia Tech’s campus and Midtown Atlanta’s business scene converge, Tech Square is a one-block area home to the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) and dozens of global brands with innovation centers, incubators, accelerators and high-tech spaces. This is where companies come to innovate.

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Established by David Cummings, founder of Pardot., Atlanta Tech Village in Buckhead also offers world-class co-working and mentoring environments.

• 4th-largest entrepreneurial tech hub in the U.S.
• Home to 300+ startup firms.
• 10 “graduate” firms, having grown beyond 40 employees and received additional rounds of funding.

Surrounding the Village, other tech businesses have grown – including AWS, Marketo Software, Salesforce, Wipro and GE Digital. And additional co-working spaces have opened adjacent to it, including Roam and WeWork.

In Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward district, a 2-million square-foot former Sears distribution facility was bought by a development firm and turned into Ponce City Market (PCM) – a mecca of multi-use apartments, retail and office/co-working spaces right on the city’s BeltLine.

Countless companies like MailChimp, athenahealth, Cardlytics, Airbus Aerial, and Twitter call PCM home. And North Avenue, the 2.3 mile corridor between PCM and Georgia Tech’s campus, is transforming into a 5G Smart Cities laboratory – serving as a public demo with over 100 IoT sensors, adaptive signal timing systems, and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications.

Georgia’s corporate tax rate has remained low at 6% for 50 years*, and it’s based on one factor: your sales inside Georgia. When you learn about our jobs tax credit and other incentives available to corporations, technology companies and startups, you’ll know why so many view Georgia as the best place for business.

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*Effective January 2019, the corporate tax rate will lower to 5.75%.