History
It was founded in 1937 as the Industrial Development Council to be a contract organization for the Engineering Experiment Station, and recreated as the Georgia Tech Research Institute under Harry L. Baker, Jr. in 1946. The organization changed to its modern name in 1984.
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| Engingeering Experiment Station | Georgia Tech Research Institute | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Industrial Development Council | Georgia Tech Research Institute | Georgia Tech Research Corporation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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