Building Business on the Border
Building Business on the Border
December 13, 2006, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Building Business on the Border highlighted leading regional strategies to promote innovation-led economic development that capitalizes on the assets of being located on the U.S.-Mexico border. The featured strategies serve as models for the many communities and regions that exist along this 2,000-mile border. The primary purpose of this bi-national enterprise is to promote and support scientific and technological collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico.
This telecast focused on the economic successes of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as the CANAMEX alliance. These economic development approaches are different in that they focus on public-private resources on business formation and expansion using applied technology research. This approach goes beyond typical business development and incubator initiatives by focusing on the aspects of technology commercialization. The economic development strategies include applied research, technology/product development, advanced training, business planning, mentoring, incubation, business technology acceleration, and marketing.
HOST
Matthew E. Crow, Director of Communications, EDA, U.S. Department of Commerce
PANELISTS
Michael Acosta, Director of External Relations and Development, College of Engineering, University of Texas-El Paso and the Director of the FUMEC Border Office (at UTEP)
Dr. Paul Maxwell, Executive Director, Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory
Ron Munden, Co-Chair, Camino Real Angel Investor Group
Dr. Steven Castillo, Dean of Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Stuart Munson-McGee, Department of Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University
Vipin Gupta, Sandia National Laboratory
Boris Kozolchyk, Director and President of National Law Center for InterAmerican Free Trade
Augustine Garcia, Director, Puerto Nuevo Project
Vera Pavlackovich, Research Scientist on US/Mexico Border Region Economy
Ignacio Barraza, Mayor Elect for the City of Nogales, Arizona
Victor Gonzales, Economic Development Director, City of Douglas, Arizona
Marisa Paula Walker, Executive Director, CANAMEX Corridor Coalition
Luis E. Ramírez Thomas, MSFS, President, Ramirez Advisors Inter-National, LLC
Gail Lewis, Policy Advisor for Transportation and International Affairs Office of the Governor of Arizona
Russ Jones, President, RL Jones Custom House Brokers and Senator Elect for the State of Arizona
Watch out for announcements on upcoming telecasts.