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TechAmerica Texas
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TechAmerica is the largest and strongest voice and resource for technology in the United States and is the industry’s leading trade association.
TechAmerica Texas serves the high-tech business interests of companies located in the region by providing access to opportunities for networking, business development, education, advocacy, and through delivering a portfolio of products and services.
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TechAmerica Texas Policy Agenda – 2011-2012
The TechAmerica Texas policy agenda is focused on issue areas that TechAmerica members have identified as most important to them and on those issues that most directly affect our members’ economic viability and competitiveness. During the 82nd Texas Legislative Session, a number of key issues will be considered. Some are perennially important issues like taxes and education. Others are issues of specific concern to the technology industries and the products they offer. This Texas Policy Agenda, while not all-inclusive, highlights some of the key issues on which we will be engaged. As always, TechAmerica will respond to these issues by continuing to be the technology industry’s leading voice offering a unified, proactive legislative agenda to support the growth of our businesses in Texas. Your support of and participation in our legislative work is essential to our success in Austin. Click here to view the agenda.
2011 Outlook for Texas Technology Companies
By Phil Forret and Ted Bathurst, Partners in the Technology Practice, at BDO USA, LLP in Dallas
BDO USA, LLP, (BDO) a national professional services firm and the U.S. member of the fifth largest global accounting network, recently released findings from the fourth-annual BDO Technology Outlook Survey, which examines the opinions of 100 chief financial officers (CFOs) at leading technology companies located throughout the U.S.
According to the survey – and consistent with what BDO has been seeing in the Texas market – technology CFOs’… Read more
Industry Rises to Defend Texas Emerging Technology Fund
TechAmerica (formerly AeA) played an integral role in the creation of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) and continues to lead efforts during each Texas legislative session to renew and fund the ETF’s ongoing investments and operations. We know the ETF is a key component in Texas’ economic development strategy and we know that it is used to pursue federal research and development funding, to improve the scientific talent and capabilities of our state’s universities, and to make equity investments in early stage companies in key transformational technologies. The ETF’s activities are carefully monitored and each investment is vetted repeatedly to ensure that the Fund’s support goes to the most promising companies. The ETF is helping to expand the technology industry ecosystem in Texas and is deserving of our ongoing support. In response to recent unwarranted criticisms, TechAmerica – along with partners from the biotech industries – has risen to defend the Fund and its good work. Other participants who work with the ETF and also voicing their support. To learn more about the ETF, TechAmerica’s work to support ETF, or how your company can pursue ETF support, please contact TechAmerica Regional Vice President Jeff Clark at jeff.clark@techamerica.org.
Click here to read the letter recently sent to the Dallas Morning News in support of the ETF.
Texas Still Leading the Way – Emerging Technology Fund key to long term economic growth
Op-Ed by Tom Kowalski, Jeff Clark, Bill Hammond, and Luke Bellsnyder
Texas is clearly a leader in the global economy, and critical to maintaining our position of leadership is keeping our intellectual and financial capital – and the jobs for Texans that they create – here at home.
Texas consistently ranks second in the nation in the creation of intellectual ideas, basic research and research publications in its private and public institutions of higher education. However, Texas does not break the top 15 in the country in transferring or commercializing those ideas into market driven products for Texas, making us effectively a net exporter of intellectual capital. Click here to read the full Op-Ed.
TechAmerica Foundation’s Cyberstates 2011: Job Losses in U.S. High-Tech Industry Decline in 2010
Texas remains the second-largest cyberstate in the nation ranked by tech employment, trailing California and ahead of New York. While Texas lost 11,800 tech jobs in 2010, a three percent decline, this tracks with much of the rest of the country. Additionally, the high-tech industry in Texas had a $38.7 billion payroll in 2010. Texas’ average tech industry wage in 2010 was $84,800 – 84 percent higher than the state’s average private sector wage.
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Jeff Clark, Executive Director
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Greg Heider, Senior Director
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Anne Savoie, Director of Programs and Public Relations
703.284.5305 ∙ anne.savoie@techamerica.org
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