photo credit: baldheretic In case you missed it, there was an interview with Harvard University economics professor Edward Glaeser in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal [subscription required]. Dr. Glaeser has been a big proponent of Houston’s recipe for growth: There’s a reason Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix are our four fastest-growing ares. They offer an astonishingly [...]
I’ve heard some people blame Houston’s lack of a biotech cluster on the fact that the University of Houston isn’t a tier 1 school like UT Austin and Texas A&M. I don’t think it’s fair to lay all the blame on UH when the TMC’s $1 billion research budget dwarfs that of UH. Regardless, the [...]
Houston lags the major biotech clusters A lot of energy has been spent in the last 10 years trying to figure out why Houston, with all the research conducted in its world-class medical center, hadn’t spawned more biotech startups. Houston lagged behind the major biotech clusters–San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston–in the number of biotech [...]