IC² Institute
As an interdisciplinary research unit of The University of Texas at Austin, the IC² Institute has advanced the Theory and Practice of Entrepreneurial Wealth Creation. The theories and hypotheses developed at IC² are tested in life-scale through several world-recognized programs: the Austin Technology Incubator, one of the world's most prominent business incubators, the Bureau of Business Research, to provide Texas leaders with research data to strengthen the state’s economy, and the Global Commercialization Group, to catalyze emerging knowledge-based economies throughout the world. Supporting these programs is a proactive staff, the alumni of ATI, as well as a network of about 160 active Global Fellows who extend the talent reach of the institute at home and abroad. Eighteen of these are Endowed Fellows: professors at The University of Texas at Austin whose research is supplemented by the IC² Institute in order to directly support the creation of new knowledge.
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Value creation in start-up discourse: linking pitch and venture through logics of justification
(International Journal of Business Communication, 2023-01)How do start-ups create value through the language of their business pitches? In this article, we investigate that question by identifying the logics of justification they use, traditionally conceptualised as orders of ... -
Linked but Desynched: An OODA Analysis of Associated Entrepreneurship Accelerator Programs
(Sage, 2023)Accelerators are programs that support fledgling ventures with a set curric- ulum, moving them through a cycle of venture development that culmi- nates in a Demo Day pitch in which the ventures argue for their viability. ... -
Linked but desynched: An OODA analysis of associated entrepreneurship accelerator programs
(Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 2022)Accelerators support fledgling ventures with a set curriculum, moving them through a cycle of venture development, culminating in a Demo Day pitch in which the ventures argue for their viability. Yet firms are often involved ... -
A Classified and Selective Index to the Texas Business Review, 1927-1961
(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1962) -
Texas Business Review, August 1941
(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1941-08) -
Texas Business Review, July 1941
(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1941-07) -
Texas Business Review, August 1940
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Scaling Change Labs: A Response to “From Mediated Actions To Heterogenous Coalitions: Four Generations Of Activity-theoretical Studies Of Work And Learning”
(Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2020)In “From Mediated Actions To Heterogenous Coalitions: Four Generations of Activity-Theoretical Studies of Work and Learning,” Engeström and Sannino discuss the fourth generation of activity theory as involving ... -
The Price is Right: An Orders of Worth Analysis of Positions on Housing Prices
(SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 2021-10)In this pilot study, we investigate how community leaders in a rural Texas small town argue about economic development. To study this, we examine 33 semistructured interviews collected by undergraduate interns and analyze ... -
Resource Guide for Historically Underutilized Businesses in the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area
(2020)This guide is a compendium of resources available to Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUBs) in the Austin- Round Rock, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The Austin-Round Rock MSA includes the Texas counties ... -
Resources for Texas Sexual Assault Survivors
(2020-11)The specific project aims were to inventory the sexual assault services available in Texas, assess sexual assault survivors’ needs by region for the 11 Texas regions, and develop a sexual assault services resource inventory. -
Rethinking Supply Chains as Neighborhoods
(Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics, 2020)This paper explores the implication of a neighborhood model for interfirm interactions that explicitly tries to create an equality matching relationship among firms in an industry. The aim is to examine what would happen ... -
Editing the Pitch: Patterns of Editing Strategies of Written Pitches in a Chilean Accelerator Program
(IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2020-11)Abstract—Background: After a six-month training program in the Chilean public accelerator Start-Up Chile, entrepreneurs are asked to update a short pitch they wrote in the submission stage to appear in the program’s ... -
The Invisible Supporters
(AILA Review, 2020-10-07)Text reuse is a widespread practice of text production in business-related contexts. Written communication is part of complex activities such as creating added value, organizing, regulating, and supporting work, building ... -
Go or No Go: Learning to Persuade in an Early-Stage Student Entrepreneurship Program
(2020-06)Abstract—Background: Early-stage accelerator programs teach new entrepreneurs how to identify and exploit venture opportunities. In doing so, they implicitly teach these new entrepreneurs how to develop and iterate claims. ... -
Recording Victim Video Statements as Evidence to Advance Legal Outcomes in Family Violence Cases (ReVEAL)
(Steve Hicks School of Social Work, 2019)This Implementation Guide provides an overview of the video-recording practices currently in place across several Texas jurisdictions. It provides guidance and considerations for jurisdictions in the collection and use of ... -
Gender and Sexual Minority College Students: The Risk and Extent of Victimization and Related Health and Educational Outcomes
(SAGE Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2019-11)A multisite survey conducted at eight campuses of a southwestern university system provides the data for the present study, total N = 17,039 with 1,869 gender and sexual minority (GSM) students. Sexual violence was measured ... -
Northwest Arkansas EDGE Final Report
(Walton Family Foundation, 2019-11)The Economic Development: Generating Entrepreneurs (EDGE) Program, funded by the Walton Family Foundation, was initiated in Northwest Arkansas in Spring 2018. The program, managed by the IC2 Institute at The University of ... -
“To the Public, Nothing was Wrong with Me”: Life Experiences of Minors and Youth in Texas At Risk for Commercial Sexual Exploitation
(2019-03)This study describes child sex trafficking in three regions across Texas using empirically grounded qualitative and quantitative research methods. It is intended to expand the body and depth of knowledge that can that can ... -
A Call to the Engineering Community to Address Human Trafficking
(National Academy of Engineering, 2019-09-16)Human trafficking (HT) is a horrific and seemingly intractable problem that is typically construed as falling beyond the purview of engineers. This paper argues that engineering systems analysis can produce important ...