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Page 14/The BattalionThursday, April 19, 1984 New office to be shot in the arm for small busines United Press International AUSTIN — A newly created arm of the governor’s office is trying to boost the Texas econ omy by making healthy busi nesses even more prosperous and turning the dreams of bud ding entrepreneurs into profit able realities, and one branch of the program will be centered at Texas A&M. The Governor’s Office of Economic Development, cre ated five months ago by Gov. Mark White, has begun several programs aimed at fueling the economy by beefing up existing small businesses and encourag ing the creation of new ones. “We’re trying to figure out how we can give entrepreneu- rism a boost in Texas,” Director Harden Wiedemann said. “People think Texas is the last great bastion of capitalism BOB BROWN UNIVERSAL TRAVEL COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL Airline Reservations • Hotel/Motel Accomodations - Travel Counsel • Rental Car Reservations • Tours • Charter Flights • FREE Ticket Delivery 846-8718 • Agency is fully computerized- 410 S. Texas/ Lobby of the Ramada Inn/College Station and entrepreneurism, and we sort of like that and believe that. Yet official state government support for small businesses has been next to nil.” The Small Business Revitali zation program is the office’s first step toward providing di rect state assistance to thriving, ongoing small businesses, Wiedemann said. “The program puts experts out into the state to help busi nesses apply for a 10 percent, fixed-interest, 20-year loan that will be used to expand their op erations and put more people to work,” he said. “The whole idea behind the program is more jobs.” The loans are funded jointly by local banks and public eco nomic development funds, and Wiedemann predicts the pro gram will bring to the state $300 million in new capital and 30,000 new jobs over the next two or three years. Wiedemann’s office also is trying to home-grow new indus tries through the Small Busi ness Innovation Research Pro gram, which consists of seminars that instruct people how to get federal research grants to turn their ideas into realities. “What comes out of those grants is the inventors and en trepreneurs develop their ideas and then they start a new com pany,” he said. He said only 1 percent of the available federal research grants are now awarded to Texas residents, but the state hopes to increase its share of the federal research money to 5 percent by 1987. Prospective entrepreneurs also can take their ideas to small business development centers that are being set up in branches of the University of Texas and Texas A&M. The centers “take a raw idea and tell the entrepreneur whether it’s good or bad, paten table, or just a pile of rubbish,” Wiedemann said. The Office of Economic De velopment is also encouraging smaller businesses to think on an international scale by point ing out the benefits of export ing- Although Texas is third in the nation behind Florida and California in manufactured ex ports and second behind Cali fornia in agricultural exports, Wiedemann says that’s not good enough. international marketsi much greater," he said. “We have the i ninth largest portsintkt® I 51 ? in Houston and CorpusM^ 1 " and they’re being lized. We want toconvi® businesses that the intern marketplace is as impt even more important t| domestic marketplace'' The efforts; to help businesses are aimedaik the stale's overall ecuea <li\ersil\ away fro ■ [ ta , I i I i, k i i i I ct t'/\iwrnril/io> .. — ‘The potential for Texas in dilional strongholds: ture and oil and gas. Tower still refusing to endorse candidali United Press International EL PASO — U.S. Sen. 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Bentsen, mentioning success ful experimental wildflower plantings in Texas and Lady Bird Johnson’s efforts to beau tify America, said he plans to in troduce legislation next week to encourage states to use wildf lowers as groundcover. “The wildflowers would mean millions of dollars saved at a time when both slate and federal governments are looking hard for ways to hold down spending," he said. The legislation, which Bent sen hopes to attach to highway legislation pending before the Senate Transportation Com mittee he serves on, n quire that one-fourtholil eral landscaping fundsh] to plant wildflowers asm cover along highways. 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