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Don’t
miss
the highly-anticipated unveiling of the 2008 Excellence in
TBED Award winners next week in Cleveland during SSTI’s 12th
Annual Conference.
SSTI will be posting podcast interviews with all of the 2007 and 2008 Excellence in TBED Award winners in the coming months.
SSTI
Job Corner
Complete descriptions of these opportunities and
others are available
at http://www.ssti.org/posting.htm.
The Georgia
Institute of Technology announces a search for the position
of vice provost for development and technology ventures. The
vice provost for development and technology ventures is the Institute’s
chief economic development, reporting to the senior vice provost for
research and innovation. The selected candidate will function as the
executive director of the Enterprise Innovation Institute, whose
mission is to serve as the catalyst for entrepreneurship,
commercialization and economic development at Georgia Tech.
In addition to operating the economic development activities at Georgia
Tech, the vice provost for development and technology ventures serves
as the Institute’s chief liaison with State government on matters
pertaining to economic development. Successful candidates are expected
to have successful relevant experience within an academic setting and
have earned graduate degrees in business, sciences and/or engineering.
Digest
Takes a Break
As SSTI staff are focused on putting on an
outstanding annual conference, the SSTI Weekly Digest will not be
published next week. It will return with an abbreviated edition on
October 22, 2008.
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