IC² Institute Blog

Hello, everybody! My name is Hidemichi Fujii. I am an IC2 Visiting Scholar from Hiroshima,  Japan, and I am spending the year in Austin working on a project on environmental management and economic performance, especially of industrial firms in Japan, the U.S., Europe, and China.
I will attend the  12th International Conference on Technology Policy and [...]

Already issues! Two of my students have been helping me with some of the logistics. We wanted to meet with NGO officials to talk to them about poverty reduction, but no one will meet with us. We even tried some of our guanxi but were told that we needed to have an [...]

Welcome to the new IC2 Blog, intended to give program managers, researchers, visiting scholars, and staff at the Institute a chance to share their current ideas and research.
I wanted to use my first posting to point toward a couple of the most recent reports and studies from the Bureau of Business Research. My colleagues in [...]

I’m leaving for China in two weeks to meet with leaders in Ningxia province, a poor, underdeveloped region, to discuss performing a survey and implementing a website in minority Hui villages. The website will allow rural residents to sell goods via the internet, expanding commercial networks. If the project is successful, it will be replicated [...]