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George Kozmetsky (October 5, 1917 – April 30, 2003) was an American technology innovator, businessman, educator, author and philanthropist. He co-founded Teledyne Inc. and was the dean of The University of Texas College of Business Administration (now the McCombs School of Business) for 16 years.
Technology pioneer George Kozmetsky presents his model for Austin to become a "technology city" to Austin Chamber and City leaders. 1977 Kozmetsky founds IC² as a "think and do tank" to study the drivers of economic development and shared prosperity.
30 de abr. de 2003 · George Kozmetsky. Share: October 5, 1917 – April 30, 2003. Brief Biography. George Kozmetsky was born in Seattle, Washington to Belarusian immigrants. As a teenager, Kozmetsky helped support his family by unloading fishing boats at the city docks. He did not venture far for undergraduate education and enrolled at the University of Washington.
1 de ene. de 2011 · George Kozmetsky is remembered for his splendid disregard of disciplinary boundaries, for his steadfast vision and mental agility, for his successes in business, and for his unstinting mentorship and inspiration of generations of students and faculty.
Left: George Kozmetsky’s diagram (still on display at the IC² Institute) illustrating how an entrepreneurial ecosystem can promote shared prosperity; Right: An AI-generated image illustrating the expected outcomes from a well-being economy.
George Kozmetsky, ’39, who received the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus Award in 1989 as the University of Washington’s alumnus of the year, died April 30 of Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 85. A visionary in higher education, business and technology, Kozmetsky helped lay the groundwork that made Austin, Texas, into one of the nation’s ...
6 de may. de 2003 · George Kozmetsky, a businessman, educator and philanthropist who co-founded Teledyne Inc. and devoted more than five decades of 18-hour workdays to adapting technology for commercial use...
