| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.08.2024 | Houston's Innovative Pulse: A City at the Forefront of Change | Houston is a city that thrives on innovation. It’s a melting pot of ideas, where technology and health care intertwine. This vibrant hub is not just about oil and gas anymore; it’s about reshaping the future. The heart of Houston beats with... |
| 20.08.2024 | Energy capital embarks on new era with the inaugural Houston Energy and Climate Week | Inaugural week - September 9-13, 2024
First-of-its-kind 'event' of events fosters collaboration, innovation, and inclusion to shape the energy transition
HOUSTON, Aug. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Allies in Energy, an educational nonprofi... |
| 22.05.2024 | Houston college lands $5M NASA grant to launch new aerospace research center | The University of Houston was one of seven minority-serving institutions to receive a nearly $5 million grant this month to support aerospace research focused on extending human presence on the moon and Mars.
The $4,996,136 grant over five ... |
| 22.05.2024 | How this Houston clean energy entrepreneur is navigating geothermal's hype to 100x business growth | Geothermal energy has been growing in recognition as a major player in the clean energy mix, and while many might think of it as a new climatetech solution, Tim Latimer, co-founder and CEO of Fervo Energy, knows better.
"Every overnigh... |
| 29.04.2024 | Houston innovation leaders secure SBA funding to start equitability-focused energy lab | A group of Houston's innovation and energy leaders teamed up to establish an initiative supporting equitability in the energy transition.
Impact Hub Houston, a nonprofit incubator and ecosystem builder, partnered with Energy Tech Nexus to e... |
| 29.04.2024 | Houston fitness entrepreneur serves up smart baby gear line | Ashley Gooch has taken her entrepreneurial spirit from the fitness studio to the finger foods.
The Houston-based founder of high-end cycling studio RYDE and mom of three has launched a new baby gear brand, Babynetic. The company debuted its... |
| 26.04.2024 | Houston group secures $90M for edtech hub, spaceport enters second phase, and more trending news | Editor's note:Let's roundup the most-read Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles from InnovationMap and its daily newsletter included a Rice University-founded company securing $90 million for a ne... |
| 26.04.2024 | Houston organization launches virtual accelerator, seeks 10 biotech startups | A Houston organization — freshly funded by a $700,000 U.S. Economic Development Administration’s “Build to Scale” grant — is seeking its first accelerator cohort of industrial biology startups.
Founded by Houston-based First Bight Ventures,... |
| 23.04.2024 | Op-Ed: Removing barriers is critical for the future of Houston's health care workforce | Houston houses one of the most renowned medical communities in the world. However, Texas' current health care workforce shortage has severely impacted the city, with large swaths of the Gulf Coast Region deemed medically underserved. Thousa... |
| 18.07.2022 | MassChallenge names 7 companies to national cohort | Seven Houston companies have been chosen for MassChallenge’s 2022 United States cohort of early-stage startups.
The seven Houston startups are:
BEMY Cosmetics, a maker of skin rejuvenation products based on RNA technology
Eisana Corp., whos... |
| 14.07.2022 | Houston college system opens new cybersecurity training facility | A center created to train future cybersecurity specialists recently opened at Houston Community College’s West Loop campus.
The center, featuring equipment such as a miniature water plant and a car-hacking workbench, simulates cyberattacks.... |
| 13.07.2022 | Houston books a top spot in new ranking of country’s geekiest cities | Houston geeks, unite. Bayou City has been ranked the sixth-geekiest big city in the U.S.
In honor of Embrace Your Geekness Day (July 13), Lawn Love ranked the 200 largest cities in the U.S. to determine their geekiness level. It relied on f... |
| 13.07.2022 | With freshly opened inclusive coworking space, Houston founders look to continue momentum | The origin story of Sesh Coworking is familiar to a lot of startups. Meredith Wheeler was looking for a new business opportunity — and the right network and work environment to do that — when she realized she didn't find anything out there ... |
| 03.05.2021 | panOpen Wins Z-Degree Award with the Houston Community College System | We find it most compelling when an innovative OER-focused company like panOpen participates in all of our channels... and we look forward to working with panOpen to build on this in the years to come - Dr. Nathan Smith, Professor of Philoso... |
| 09.04.2021 | The Story Behind a Petition to Hold College Commencement in Person, Despite COVID-19 | Raquel Perez is earning her associate degree in audio engineering this spring. It’s a milestone many semesters in the making. The 32-year-old has spent the last five years pursuing a degree at Houston Community College, balancing classes wi... |
| 18.03.2021 | The Awkward Truth About ‘Free College’—It Isn’t Truly Free | In 2014, when Tennessee unveiled a statewide scholarship to cover tuition expenses at community colleges, the program was praised for making higher education possible for more people. It even inspired President Obama to pitch a similar fede... |
| 03.04.2020 | Documentary featuring Houston Nobel Prize winner to air on PBS | Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, our current coronavirus heroes are donning face masks as they save lives. One local health care hero has a different disease as his enemy, and you'll soon be able to stream his story.
Dr. James "Jim&... |
| 07.02.2020 | Houston named among the top cities for women in technology | Houston fell two places in SmartAsset's latest ranking of the best U.S. cities for women in technology but remains in the top 10.
SmartAsset's sixth annual study, released February 6, puts Houston at No. 6 among the top cities for women in ... |
| 06.02.2020 | HCC Q3 profit at Rs 234 cr; announces plan to reduce debt by Rs 2,100 cr | Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) on Thursday reported a net profit of Rs 234 crore for the October-December quarter of 2019-20 against Rs 9.91 crore in the year-ago period mainly on the back of 'write-back' of Rs 331 crore of provisions... |
| 21.01.2020 | Preparing Houston's tech workforce starts in school, says expert | Recent studies have shown that nearly half of students enter college with an undecided major and as many as 70 percent of students change their major at least once during their four-year program, and it is predicted that by 2030, there will... |
| 15.01.2020 | New report finds coal and wind energy usage tied in Texas for the first time | In an electrifying sign for the renewables sector of Houston's energy industry, wind for the first time has essentially tied with coal as a power source for Texas homes and businesses.
In 2019, wind (19.97 percent) and coal (20.27 percent) ... |
| 09.01.2020 | Texas A&M University technology used to prevent outages and wildfires | The threat of wildfires is on most people's minds as Australia suffers from devastating, uncontrollable fires in its southeastern region. While Australia's fires are alleged to be caused by natural occurrences, some, like the California wil... |
| 20.12.2019 | HCC unveils new virtual reality lab through partnership with Houston company | Earlier this month, Houston Community College opened its new virtual reality lab at its HCC West Loop campus.
The new space comes from a partnership between HCC Southwest and Houston-based MACE Virtual Labs — an extended reality software co... |
| 18.11.2019 | Here's what events to attend each day during The Houston Innovation Summit | For the third year, The Houston Innovation Summit is taking over the town to promote entrepreneurship and innovation within the city.
THIS begins today and runs through the weekend. Each day represents a theme — all pertinent to Houston. Im... |
| 22.07.2019 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | One thing this week's movers and shakers in the Houston innovation ecosystem have in common is their intention to disrupt an industry using technology. Here are this week's innovators you need to know in Houston.
Francois Laborie, general m... |
| 16.07.2019 | Houston jobs could be hit hard by the rise of robots, one study finds | If a new forecast comes true, Houston's manufacturing sector could take an especially hard hit from the upturn in the use of robots.
In a new report, Oxford Economics, a forecasting and analysis firm based in the United Kingdom, ranks Texas... |
| 28.07.2011 | Xander Invests Rs 240Cr For 14.5% Stake In HCC Concessions | Construction and civil engineering major HCC Infrastructure Co. Ltd will dilute 14.5 per cent stake in HCC Concessions Ltd to US-based investment firm Xander Group for Rs 240 crore, according to a statement. HCC Infrastructure is a 100 per ... |
| 16.02.2011 | HCC gets Rs 345 cr order from Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam | Hindustan Construction Company Ltd (HCC) on Wednesday bagged a Rs 345.30 crore engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order from Gujarat government’s undertaking Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd for the construction of a 57 km cana... |
