John Sibley Butler to receive Tech Innovation Special Achievement Award

The Austin Business Journal has announced that it will present a Tech Innovation Special Achievement Award to IC² Institute Director John Sibley Butler at the 2009 Tech Innovation Awards on October 14.

The Tech Innovation Awards are given annually to the best technology ideas in Central Texas. The competition is sponsored by the Acton MBA, the Austin Technology Council and the Central Texas Angel Network.

Austin Technology incubator links pharmacy grad students with bioscience startups

Two young startup companies developing therapies to treat medical ills may soon offer renewed promise to patients, thanks, in part, to a cooperative program with the college. This program – a collaborative effort between the college’s Drug Dynamics Institute (DDI) and Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) – has provided these early-stage ventures with pharmacy graduate student interns. In turn, these students have the unique opportunity to work closely with bioscience entrepreneurs.

Read the whole article from Longhorn Pharmacy Focus, Fall 2009 [PDF]

John Sibley Butler in Forbes

"Building Your Own Business: A successful start-up needs more than a great idea."
David K. Randall, Forbes, 4/30/2009
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/30/moneybuilder-start-business-personal-finance-starting.html

One of his former students is selling genetically altered goldfish that glow in the dark. Another is developing a diaper with built-in baby wipes. For John Butler, a professor of entrepreneurship and management at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, such occurrences are part and parcel with living in a town bursting with start-ups.
"We're in the business of wealth creation," Butler says.

John Sibley Butler is the Director of the IC² Institute and the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship.  He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Babson College in Boston.  He has also taught in China, Japan and Mexico.

Elsie Echeverri-Carroll named one of 50 "cerebros fugados"

PODER, a Colombian business magazine, in its July 2008 issue named Elsie Echeverri-Carroll of the IC² Institute one of 50 "cerebros fugados," or leading Colombian academics who have chosen to live and work in the United States. Dr. Echeverri-Carroll is the Director of Economic Development at IC²'s Bureau of Business Research. She has published extensively on the topics of maquiladoras, trade in the Americas, high technology in industrialized and developing countries, women in business, and income inequalities in high-tech regions.

IC²'s Chrissi Guerrero and Erin Harris win Staff Excellence awards

 Chrissi Guerrero and Erin Harris of the IC² Institute were among the recipients of the 2008 Staff Excellence Award from The University of Texas at Austin.  Only 30 of the University's 14,000 employees receive the prestigious award each year.

Chrissi Guerrero and Erin Harris (center) with supervisors Steve Molloy and Gary Cadenhead
 

ATI's Isaac Barchas receives Austin Chamber of Commerce award

February 12, 2008 - Isaac Barchas, Executive Director of the Austin Technology Incubator, was honored by the Austin Chamber of Commerce as its "Volunteer of the Year" for technology.

A statement read at the Chamber's annual meeting stated:

"Isaac has supported multiple groups and efforts to promote and grow the Central Texas tech sector. Isaac has worked tirelessly to build the bridge between the tech community, the business community and The University of Texas. He initiated and completed AusTech’s Technology Sector project that identified existing tech companies by industry sector; he has provided great insight and guidance in the nano center project and the medical school project. Under his leadership ATI has created the clean tech incubator as well as the life sciences incubator and Isaac led the effort to align ATI’s technology focus with Opportunity Austin’s targeted industries. Isaac also created strong working relationships between ATI and Chamber sponsored Central Texas Angel Network and the Chamber-managed Central Texas Regional Center for Innovation and Commercialization. Congratulations, Isaac."

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