
Find Your Town
July 28, 2025
Texas just released an economic development vision called “Blueprint for a Stronger Texas of Tomorrow” with 10 target industries that cover the big stuff. But even conglomerates had to start up somewhere.
One of the blueprint’s four pillars is a robust innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. For some, those buzzwords evoke university incubators, business accelerators and reimagined coworking spaces. Others just want a place to tinker.
That’s where the Texas Economic Development Connection (TexasEDConnection) comes in. The growing group of small and midsized cities and counties and their allies across the state exists to do exactly what its name suggests: Make connections between mom-and-pop operations and the economic development resources that are just as available to the little guy as they are to the corporate giants.
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