ATLANTA — When the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology face off, a bitter rivalry gets renewed. The longstanding feud has been dubbed Clean Old-Fashioned Hate . But when the Jackets and Bulldogs team up, it's more like clean old-fashioned collaboration.

Tim Lieuwen, executive vice president of research at Georgia Tech, said the two schools account for over $2 billion a year in research and development. He said every federal dollar has more than two-and-a-half times the impact statewide.

"What you can hear about in the press is talk about the lowercase “r” rivalry, but there are just so many ways that our organizations collaborate," Lieuwen said. "It's the work we’re doing to improve outcomes of surgery and prevent infections, all the work we’re doing to

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