Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits John Provo, executive director of Virginia Tech’s Center for Economic and Community Engagement in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Provo manages a multidisciplinary field that includes innovation and technology, helping industry harness the power of technological advances for the public good of Virginia, and equipping faculty and students with problem-solving techniques for place-based communities. pull it into.
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Join the conversation to learn how a Virginia Tech partnership enabled the first drone food delivery with Flying Burrito, and how student-led startup Torc uses an autonomous truck control system to Learn how it has become a global leader.
Provo shares many other equally fascinating stories about how Virginia Tech’s Center for Economic and Community Engagement is transforming not just Virginia’s commercial enterprises, but all of America at the same time. .
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