Research Services - Overview

Customized Research

The Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute conducts customized research for state, local and regional industry needs.  Our team includes economists and other research professionals with a total combined 150 years of economic development research experiences.

Examples:

• Considering annexation of an unincorporated area?
• Need to estimate the impact of a prospective business on your community?

Learn more. Contact Robert Lann

Manufacturing Modernization

Georgia Tech conducts the Georgia Manufacturing Survey every 2 to 3 years to benchmark the use of modern manufacturing technology, practices and techniques; and to provide that information to state agencies and business assistance sources throughout Georgia.  The most recent survey highlights innovation.

Innovation in Manufacturing:  The 2005 Georgia Manufacturing Survey

WebLOCI™

It can be difficult to understand the benefits and costs when businesses move into or expand in your community.  WebLOCI™ fills the gap for local governments.

WebLOCI™ is a Web-based version of the nationally recognized local-government fiscal impact tool, LOCI™. Hundreds of chambers of commerce, economic development agencies/departments, consultants, and local governments have purchased a license for the software since 1998. Now, this valuable tool has been brought to the Web.

Traditional economic impact analysis tools look only at how your community benefits from new or expanding businesses. With WebLOCI™ software, you can estimate:

• the fiscal costs and benefits of new and/or expanding businesses on your local government, and
• an array of economic impacts, such as:
  • new employment
  • new income
  • new retail expenditures
  • new business formation

WebLOCI™ can estimate all of this for your city, county or other political jurisdiction – a much smaller geographic area than traditional economic impact analysis.

Join hundreds of licensed users throughout the country, from California to New York, and start using WebLOCI™ to help improve your community’s decision process.

Learn more about WebLOCI™.

Questions? Contact Robert Lann

Student Internship

To help educate the next generation of economic developers, the Enterprise Innovation Institute offers summer internships in innovative economic development.  These 10-week paid internships involve working on a single, in-depth research or implementation project devised jointly by the students, Enterprise Innovation Institute staff and faculty advisors.

Questions?  Contact Robert Lann