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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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A news brief on research being conducted by School of Public Policy professor John Walsh on the impact of startups was published in Dow Jones Newswires.
"Startups may play a disproportionate role as sources of invention in US manufacturing relative to older, larger firms, according to a recently released analysis of survey data from researchers at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the Georgia Institute of Technology (John Walsh). About 14% of roughly 650 firms which introduced a new product between 2007 and 2009 said they sourced the underlying invention from a new, small firm, suggesting "that a greater proportion of startups may be acting as a source of invention than there are startups in the manufacturing sector as a whole," explains Wesley Cohen, one of the researchers from Duke." - July 15, 2014
