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Coastal Bend's Innovation Capacity and Competitiveness
The Coastal Bend has a moderate innovation capacity in comparison with other areas in the nation.
Historical experience underscores the role of human capital alongside financial investments in determining the region's competitiveness.
In the nation's transition to net-zero emissions, the Coastal Bend is well-positioned to develop a hydrogen hub with carbon capture and storage infrastructure
as an alternative energy source, but technological know how remains a deciding factor.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has caused most economic woes we all face today, including soaring oil prices.
But history clearly shows that this military superpower was able and willing to wage wars only when oil prices were high,
and its aggressions ended after the world oil market collapsed.
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ABOUT US
Founded in 2014, the South Texas Economic Development Center (STEDC) is dedicated to promoting sustainable economic and community development in South Texas, particularly the Coastal Bend region.
The Center aims to serve the intellectual needs of the regional community in support of policy and business decisions to enhance the quality of life of all within the region.
Rising from the pandemic, the Center is making a subtle shift in its mission, which now emphasizes progress that is not just a matter of economic growth, but also individual and social well-being. |
Coastal Bend's Innovation Capacity and Competitiveness
The Coastal Bend has a moderate innovation capacity in comparison with other areas in the nation.
Historical experience underscores the role of human capital alongside financial investments in determining the region's competitiveness.
In the nation's transition to net-zero emissions, the Coastal Bend is well-positioned to develop a hydrogen hub with carbon capture and storage infrastructure
as an alternative energy source, but technological know how remains a deciding factor.
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Bitcoin Miners Coming to Town?
Crytocurrency miners have been eyeing Texas as a base for their mining operations.
And Bootstrap Energy plans to build a mining plant in Corpus Christi that is extremely energy intensive.
There is much opportunity in this technology and for the creation of new jobs.
But, as the idiom goes, the devil is in the details.
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Upward Mobility in Corpus Christi
Economic connectedness in the form of friendships between rich and poor children helps create a pathway out of poverty for the poor later in life.
Other than climbing up the economic ladder within the same community, people can achieve better economic outcomes by moving to an area that provides them with more economic opportunities.
Yet poor young people are less likely than rich young people to move out of Corpus Christi.
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Corpus Christi's Growth Future
This ArcGIS Storymap is an application of the GeoRED online tool developed under the Regional Resilience Partnership between
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend Council of Governments.
The story concerns the city of Corpus Christi's growth limits and opportunities from the spatial perspective.
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Pre-K for CC
Corpus Christi provides early education to only one in five preschoolers ages 3 and 4.
Inequities in early childhood education prevail across different neighborhoods.
Kindergarteners learn more in communities with more pre-K services.
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Missing Texans in Census 2020
Miscounts of the population in Corpus Christi and Texas may shortchange their local communities of political representation and federal funding.
The Census Bureau and some researchers have found that the Black and Hispanic populations were more likely to be undercounted than the White and Asian populations in the 2020 Census.
Should the census count all local residents, the Corpus Christi metro area could gain as much as $600 million in federal funding for various public programs over the 2021-2030 period.
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