Thinkers. Dreamers. Doers.

Studio 225 is the home of UGA’s booming Student Center for Entrepreneurship.

Opening in the spring of 2019 in a renovated warehouse on West Broad Street, Studio 225 connects students of all majors to entrepreneurship programs, spaces, funding, and mentors. Studio 225 includes:

• Entrepreneurship Certificate Program
• Next Top Entrepreneur
• Collegiate Great Brands Competition
• UGA Idea Accelerator
• Summer Launch

Terrell Hall is home to Innovation Gateway, which provides support and resources to help UGA faculty move their inventions into the marketplace.

Innovation Gateway helps faculty members with:

• Invention Disclosures
• Intellectual Property
• Material Transfer Agreements / Confidential Disclosure Requests
• Research Commercialization

The Delta Innovation Hub houses UGA’s faculty startup program.

Opening in January of 2021, the Hub provides a creative space at the heart of North Campus and downtown Athens, where faculty, students, community members, and industry partners can collaborate and innovate on commercial projects. The Delta Innovation Hub hosts a wide variety of programs and services for startups:

• Innovation Bootcamp
• Innovation Fellows
• NSF I-Corps Accelerator
• Startup Mentor in Residence

382 E. Broad Street is houses the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) which provides tools and training for the community’s small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs.

The SBDC helps community entrepreneurs in the following areas:

• Business Plans
• Pitch Decks
• Business Licenses
• GA Payroll Tax Registration
• Marketing Plans
• QuickBooks help
• Sales Tax – how it works

New College houses UGA’s Student Industry Fellows Program.

Supported by The Delta Air Lines Foundation, the Student Industry Fellows Program (SIFP) cultivates innovation competencies among UGA graduate and undergraduate students and fosters mutually beneficial industry partnerships. A signature program within UGA’s Innovation District, the SIFP is part of a unique ecosystem of talent, creativity and infrastructure that brings students from a range of disciplines together to solve emergent and pressing challenges through unique, cross-disciplinary courses and experiences.

Global agriculture must expand food production 70% by 2050 to meet the demands of an increasing population and a decreasing resource pool.

To address this global challenge, UGA is proposing an Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture, as the next phase of capital development for Innovation District, to create technologies, tools, and resources that sustainably improve agricultural productivity through increased yield, fewer inputs, and reduced risk.

The Institute will leverage technology advancements in sensing, robotics, data analytics, and artificial intelligence with genetic and chemical advances to build a more sustainable global supply of food and fiber and position the University of Georgia and the State of Georgia as leaders on the world stage.

1 Press Place houses the Office of Business Engagement, industry’s front door to UGA talent and resources.

Between our accomplished alumni, renowned faculty, groundbreaking research and high-caliber students, businesses have plenty of reasons to want to partner with UGA, and the Office of Business Engagement helps make that happen. OBE helps businesses to achieve their goals for research and development, talent recruitment, and philanthropic giving.