McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Rice University's Baker Institute has a mandate to conduct nonpartisan policy-relevant research. The center develops academic papers intended for publication in peer-reviewed journals, as well as policy reports, issue briefs, white papers, Op. Eds., wiki pages and blog articles. This work develops an understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation as phenomena that create economic growth, and it conveys this understanding to academics, policymakers, entrepreneurs, students and the public. The McNair Center also takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs and developing entrepreneurship ecosystems.
| McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation | |
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James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy | |
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| Name | McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
| Team | McNair Faculty, McNair Team, McNair Affiliates |
| Keywords | McNair Center, Baker Institute, Rice University, Entrepreneurship, Innovation |
| Copyright © 2016 McNair Center. All Rights Reserved. | |
Featured Sections
Guide to Small Business in Houston
Our new Guide to Small Business in Houston analyzes and categorizes the resources available to small business owners in Houston. We provide details on how to incorporate and license a small business, as well as details on to get help from more than 38 useful support organizations.
Houston's small business support organizations provide education, development, incubation, networking, and much else besides. Each of Houston's organizations is accompanied by a description of its program's details. Likewise, tables comparing organizations on their services and costs, as well as interactive maps, help entrepreneurs understand which service is best suited to their small business.
Guide to Entrepreneurship at Rice University
Our new Guide to Entrepreneurship at Rice University provides an overview of resources available for emerging entrepreneurs of the Rice University community, including students, faculty, and alumni. Rice University is known for its entrepreneurial activity. The Rice Business Plan Competition has the largest prize of any university competition of its kind, and the Rice Alliance was ranked the No.1 University Business Incubator in the world in 2013 and 2014.
We provide information on all of the key campus-wide institutions and programs provided, as well as details on events and resources available through these institutions. The five main institutions supporting entrepreneurship across campus are the Rice Entrepreneurship Initiative, the McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, OwlSpark, and the Rice Entrepreneurship Club. Together, these institutions maintain a public Slack channel that anyone may join that shares events and opportunities related to entrepreneurship at Rice University and in the Houston area.
Other Features
The McNair Center makes various informational and educational pages publicly available. These pages help the center to fulfill its duty as an community resource on entrepreneurship and innovation. More pages are added each week, so please check back often.
- How to Start a Company in Texas: A detailed set of step-by-step instructions on how to start for-profit, nonprofit, and foreign corporations in Texas.
- The Truth Behind Patent Trolls: An overview of patent troll activity and recommendations for proponents of patents and innovation as they seek to curb patent troll activity.
- Understanding High-Tech, High-Growth Entrepreneurship Ecosystems: An educational tour through the complex landmarks of the modern high-tech entrepreneurial ecosystem.
- Carried Interest Debate: A general summary of the private investment fund system and the controversy surrounding its treatment in taxes and law.
McNair Center Projects
McNair Projects were a deliverable-based effort, undertaken by small groups of research or tech team members at the McNair Center. Projects ranged from codifying institutional knowledge into wiki pages to full reports that contain policy recommendations, and from creating tools (see Software Repository Listing) or datasets to building components of academic papers. A List of All McNair Projects contains projects that are not active, tabled, completed, or subsumed. See also Project Planning for Fall 2017 or Projects Under Review at the McNair Center.
All McNair Projects
Further information on each project may be found in the table below.
Data summary: There are 152 projects found.
Subsumed Projects
Subsumed projects are those that are active under a larger umbrella project. There are currently 0 subsumed projects.
Tabled Projects
Data summary: There are 21 projects found.
Completed Projects
Data summary: There are 47 projects found.
Tool and Data Projects
Data summary: There are 30 tool projects found.
Data summary: There are 23 data projects found.
