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Innovate Texas Foundation and The National Institute for Renewable Energy Announce Major Renewable Energy R&D Expansions (09.21.10)
by Innovate Texas

DOE, Industry Funding and Wind Farm Operations Advance Wind and Energy Initiatives

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Innovate Texas Foundation Announces State Funding for Major Renewable Energy Project (07.26.10)
by Innovate Texas

AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 26, 2010 – Texas Governor Rick Perry announced Texas Tech University and the National Institute for Renewable Energy (NIRE), a non-profit, public/private collaboration, will receive $8.4 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF). The grant allows both entities to help resolve key scientific and technology issues facing the wind power industry.

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InnovateTexas is Attending the TechBA 2010 Expo, with Maps (07.08.10)
by Andy Boothe

At a time when many states are slashing budgets and cutting costs simply to stay alive, Texas' budget for FY2009 is operating on a comfortable $2B surplus. Combined with its $9.1B rainy day fund, Texas is positioned to weather what remains of this economic downturn with very little muss and fuss. Texas' sunny economic outlook is largely the result of Texas' strong tradition of fiscal responsibility and its many incentive programs that attract businesses from other places to Texas, especially during such hard times.

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Innovate Texas Foundation Announces Formation of National Institute for Renewable Energy (05.24.10)
by Innovate Texas

Institute to Develop Nation’s Wind and Renewable Energy Resources

AUSTIN, TEXAS – May 24, 2010 – Innovate Texas Foundation joined the Texas Tech University System and The Wind Alliance to announce today the formation of the National Institute for Renewable Energy (NIRE), an independent public-private collaboration that will work to solve key scientific and technology challenges facing the wind power industry. The announcement was made during the Windpower 2010 Conference in Dallas, sponsored by the American Wind Energy Association.

NIRE will operate for-profit business components that will design, construct and operate research wind farms. These farms will generate power to be sold in the commercial marketplace, with a portion of the revenue going to fund a non-profit research center. NIRE will also provide services to industry partners and offer an industry consortium, which will be managed by The Wind Alliance. Start-up funding for NIRE has been derived from many of the economic development organizations in West Texas.

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University-driven Technology Entrepreneurship is Key for State (05.21.10)
by David Nance

Almost instinctively, we understand that there is a connection between MIT and the vibrant Route 128 Corridor around Boston, or between Stanford and the innovative and entrepreneurial dynamo of Silicon Valley.

But is the connection just about having a prestigious tier one school placed in the midst of an attractive metropolitan area? Or is there something more that's needed to provide the critical mass necessary for self-sustaining economic development?

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Finding Resources in Texas Just Got Easier, Thanks to New Mapping Tools (05.12.10)
by David Warwick

Despite previous success, no reasonably experienced entrepreneur will tell you that it is easy to start a business whose primary mission is to provide technology or services to paying customers profitably. Stated another way, starting a business is hard. It is often difficult to find what you need to address ongoing technology or business concerns, and when you discover the solution, you often needed it last week.

At the Innovate Texas Foundation, our mission is to foster innovation and commercialization in the state of Texas. Entrepreneurship is an important component of this process, and it is one that pervades all stages of business creation and operation. Entrepreneurship is largely about being resourceful and creative with the tools available to you at any given time.

The Innovate Texas Foundation wants to make finding what you need to start a business easier. Organizations exist in all areas of the state of Texas to help entrepreneurs commercialize their ideas, and we are releasing a tool that maps two kinds of these resources: Regional Centers for Innovation and Commercialization (RCIC) and local Chambers of Commerce.

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Chirp Announcements Mean Big Opportunities for Texas Software Developers (04.22.10)
by Andy Boothe

I spent last Wednesday and Thursday at Twitter's developer conference, Chirp. Twitter announced a lot of exciting things over the course of the two-day event -- certainly not the last of which being promoted tweets, Twitter's first real attempt at a business model -- but as a developer, the announcements that interested me the most were about the new features being added to the Twitter API.

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2010 WBTshowcase Recap (03.31.10)
by Ryan Confer

Since 2002, the World’s Best Technologies Showcase has served as the world’s largest forum of pre-screened emerging technologies. The WBTshowcase, held every year in Arlington, Texas, features emerging technologies from top universities, laboratories, research institutions, and the private sector. The WBT has become a gem in the innovation ecosystem in Texas, as leaders from across the globe flock to Arlington to discuss key technology commercialization issues and collaboration opportunities.

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