Houston’s high-tech ecosystem can only flourish if it attracts more growth venture capital investments, according to the latest McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation issue brief, “Growth vs. Transactional Venture Capital in Houston, Texas.” A realistic, but aggressive, goal for… Continue Reading
Costa Ricans head to the polls on Sunday (April 1) for a tight run-off election between an Evangelical pastor and a socialist. The country’s February 4 election was supposed to be about the economy, corruption and crime. But it was… Continue Reading
Are startup hubs exclusive to a handful of U.S. cities? Or is high-technology entrepreneurship spreading throughout the country? To answer these questions, the McNair Center recently published The Top 100 U.S. Startup Cities in 2016, ranking startup activity by tracking… Continue Reading
The new year has been difficult for the Iranian regime. Most recently, an Iranian oil tanker (flagged as Panamanian) collided with another boat off the coast of China and burned for a week, killing the crew and raising questions… Continue Reading
Mexico will hold federal elections in 2018. These elections are considered historically significant because they are the first to allow independent candidates not affiliated with an existing political party to run for office. The country amended its constitution in… Continue Reading
President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru In late December, just three days after narrowly avoiding impeachment on corruption charges, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru pardoned Alberto Fujimori, the authoritarian leader who presided over the country from 1990 to 2000.… Continue Reading
*Image courtesy of NASA On January 5, the nation and the world lost a very courageous astronaut and an outstanding engineer, and I lost a very good friend. John Young was a pioneer who led the way in space exploration.… Continue Reading