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UTB-CBIRD Report: “At the Crossroads” Conclusions & Recommendations 159 Binational Entrepreneurship, a center not matched by other well-known entrepreneurial regions in the U.S. Such a center of excellence might: ⇒ Form a Cameron County/Matamoros Technology Council (CCMTC) to promote networking events, a distinguished speaker series and host technology specific management workshops. A goal of these events would be to enhance communication among entrepreneurs and support services to create a greater sense of a binational technology community and to strengthen the marketing of The Lower Rio Grande Valley as a destination for technology-based companies. ⇒ Foster Civic and Social Entrepreneurship Programs as an opportunity to grow for regional leadership that promotes a quality of life that is required for continued economic growth and prosperity sharing. ⇒ Create a Network of Networks to link tourism-, industry- and civic-networks. Leadership forums can be hosted online to promote regional strategies to meet local challenges. The Internet brings new possibilities to the Cameron County/Matamoros region, from improved delivery of education and training, and healthcare services, to greater civic engagement and new economic opportunities. The Cameron County/Matamoros region also brings new possibilities to the Internet, as binational community leaders can build new models for cross-border knowledge sharing, leveraging of resources, and problem solving. A willingness to tolerate multiple approaches needs to be accompanied by a willingness to apply lessons learned. The South Texas/Northern Border region has a unique opportunity to build a binational model of wealth creation and prosperity sharing that other international binational and border regions will seek to emulate. INITIATIVE 4: PARTNERSHIPS -- REGIONAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL On the one hand, the Lower Rio Grande Valley benefits from a strong binational economic and cultural heritage. On the other hand, the border region suffers from parochialism that fosters city-based and bi-lateral partnering rather than more regionally-based, multilateral cooperative strategies and expanded crossborder cooperation. Strategies for Action At one level the general objective is to target activities that foster regional and binational partnerships and alliances for targeted opportunities of collaboration that show business and quality of life results to the benefit of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Matamoros academic, business, and government sectors. At another level the objective is to identify and eliminate relatively minor, but important structural barriers to binational cooperation. For example, in the latter case, a relatively small but significant barrier to TSTC’s enhanced cooperation with Mexican schools is the fact that the college cannot use State funds to pay the cost of international travel for faculty, administrators, and students. Well meaning rules and procedures designed for 20th Century business and education may inhibit value-added binational or multilateral cooperation needed in the 21st Century. Technology capabilities of the 21st Century and assets and challenges of the Lower Rio Grande Valley can be linked. Improved telecommunications One Region, One Future The Cameron County/Matamoros Region has an exceptional opportunity to build a unique center of excellence in Binational Entrepreneurship — Technological, Civic and Social Entrepreneurship – for the 21 st Century. Community-based methods need to migrate to regional, binational, and global networks in the 21 st Century knowledgebase economy.
UTB-CBIRD Report: “At the Crossroads” Conclusions & Recommendations 160 infrastructure is one key way to accelerate regional economic development and quality of life in knowledge-based economies (see Section V). Community-based knowledge networks have the potential to enhance social capital that facilitates the exchange of knowledge among community leaders and organizations and the subsequent leveraging resources. CBIRD-TRAC conducted an inventory of telecommunications providers and a regional needs assessment for Cameron County and Matamoros, Mexico. Building on this initiative the city of Harlingen and the Harlingen Chamber of Commerce was awarded a Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) initiative to bring enhanced telecommunications infrastructure to the city to help promote advanced services for health care, education and training, and workforce development. Brownsville’s Public Utility Board (PUB) is poised to work with UTB/TSC to also provide enhanced telecommunications infrastructure for the city. A further challenge will be to share lessons learned across both of these cities along with McAllen, Edinburg and Northern Mexico cities and to build and maintain a Lower Rio Grande Valley Binational Communities Network. A main objective of The Cross-Border Institute for Regional Development (CBIRD) at UT-Brownsville, UT-Pan Am, UT-Austin, CODERT-Tamaulipas, and ITESM- Monterrey, is to incubate new attitudes and alliances needed for the border region to reach its full economic and social potential, driven by regional, binational, biliterate, and multicultural principles… Una Region – Un Futuro. Select binational initiatives include: ⇒ Accelerated Economic Development ⇒ Education, Training & Research ⇒ Entrepreneurship ⇒ Partnerships – regional, national, and international International initiatives include leveraging the binational networks and entrepreneurial infrastructure of the South Texas Border Region and Northern Mexico with access to international markets with an emphasis on Latin America. However, it is also possible to build knowledge-bridges globally to access to world-class R&D and to develop and manufacturer these technologies in the Cameron County/Matamoros region. 1 R&D and technology expertise can be imported to the Valley to be developed locally for emerging clusters in health sciences, transportation & logistics, manufacturing & maquiladoras, and border security. SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONS This report advocates a balanced approach to regional economic development including (Figure 6.2): ⇒ The recruitment of key technology-based industries, service companies, and talent ⇒ Retaining and facilitating the growth of established and emerging industries and talent ⇒ Accelerating the growth of new technology-based industries and talent ⇒ Leveraging academic-business-government partnerships: regionally, nationally, and globally 1 One such example would be to leverage IC² Institute Institute’s partnership with the International Science and Technology Center, Russia – [www.istc.ru]. Una Region, Un Futuro
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