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Disclaimer: Austinite here unrelated to UT.

UT needs a wider incubation, financing, and entrepreneurial (undergrad/grad-student/community) ecosystem like Stanford. Critical mass of players brings with it more interested parties, and with it, that elusive "innovation". It should be okay to make money, okay to turn a PhD thesis into a startup, okay to launch side projects, and cool to fail and learn lessons. Not all paths must lead to a "corporate career".

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Is this your diagnosis? That things are more corporate in terms of outcome? Genuinely curious, as a Bay Area native, why UT/Texas can’t begin to compete given how many issues face SF currently.

Austin's native industry is oil and gas, not internet. The software tech sector is relatively new.

Oil and gas? I haven't met a single person working in that in this town. You have us confused with Houston.

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