March 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
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
Rural entrepreneurs are media omnivores advertising both digitally and locally, but often for two distinct purposes, according to new research from @wenhongchen and @JosephStraubha2 of IC2's Faculty Research Program. https://ic2.utexas.edu/zumba-facebook-and-tiktok-creative-ways-rural-texas-entrepreneurs-make-up-for-lack-of-local-media/ @UTexasMoody
IC2 is funding research with @ErhanKutanoglu and @JohnHasenbein to build decision support models and strategies that will help address how severe weather disproportionately affect marginalized populations.
https://ic2.utexas.edu/news/ic2-institute-launches-new-research-initiative-to-advance-the-well-being-economy/
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