Summer Update Regional XLR8: Community well-being for a post-pandemic Texas
Welcome to Summer 2022!! The heat of our current weather appears to reflect the intense, new pressures Texas and our nation face with elevated inflation, continued supply chain disruption, disagreement over immigration policy, divisive politics, and a land war raging... Read MoreMarch Economic Madness Winners 2022 Take Community Approach to Digital Healthcare
The Team: Ariel Johnson: Senior Economics and Business Honors major, with concentrations in Real Estate and German, who will be working for State Farm after graduation Brandon Vu: Electrical and Computer Engineering Major going down a Software Engineering and Design... Read More
The Future of Work: It’s a Brave New World
Experts say the pandemic has brought permanent changes where and how we work, from technology to women in the workplace. For those who have worked remotely since March 2020, that routine may linger as a remnant of the global pandemic. But almost two years later,... Read More
Travis County Funds Local Training Program for Local HUB Companies
By J. Jorge Anchondo, moderator for the Readiness Training Program for Historically Underutilized Businesses (RTP for HUBs) The IC2 Institute launched in late September 2021 the Readiness Training Program for Historically Underutilized Businesses (RTP for HUBs) in the... Read More
George Kozmetsky Student Challenge 2021: UT Austin Students Deliver Innovative Ways to Nourish Texas Communities
On Saturday October 23rd, nine teams of students from 13 schools and colleges on UT Austin’s campus came together to showcase their innovative solutions for small and rural communities of Texas. The teams grappled with ways for their selected community to... Read More
Transforming the Pitch Competition – Students Solving Community Challenges
Traditional “Pitch” Competitions – the Company as the Unit of Innovation: Since the inception of the “pitch” competition, starting in 1984 as the Moot Corp competition (hosted by the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin), students have been encouraged... Read More
Leaders at Home and Beyond
As we complete our first year working with the Home to Texas (H2TX) program, we find ourselves reflecting on what leadership looks like. We chatted with several program alumni at a recent H2TX reunion, and it’s clear that leadership has manifested itself in various... Read More
Amarillo, Texas: Small Town with a Large Population
Benjamin Stormer, Mechanical Engineering at Cockrell School of EngineeringAmarillo, America’s Small Business Development Center at West Texas A&M University Home to Texas Program 2021 – Student Blog Hi! My name is Ben Stormer. I’m a first-year Mechanical... Read More
Remembering Pike Powers
Austin woke up in November 2021 fundamentally different than it was but a month before. Yet, the economy had not fundamentally changed; people continued to relocate to Austin in droves; its leadership as a technology city remained intact, and even Lester Holt kept up... Read More
As community leaders across Texas continue reflect on post-pandemic recovery, they must focus on more then just economic recovery to increase the well-being of their communities. https://ic2.utexas.edu/summer-update-regional-xlr8-community-well-being-for-a-post-pandemic-texas/
Join us in welcoming our newest visiting scholar Dany Flávio Tonelli from Federal University of Lavras, in Brazil to the institute. https://ic2.utexas.edu/about/visiting-scholars/