This article explores the efforts of Dallas businessmen, especially the leadership of Texas Instruments (TI), to build a science and research sector to facilitate new types of capital accumulation for Dallas and North Texas in the 1960s. The creation of the Graduate Center of the Southwest (GRCSW), and its subsequent transformation into the public University of Texas at Dallas in 1969, offers new perspectives on science and research, urban growth strategies, and the relationship between business and government in the postwar Sunbelt. TI leaders envisioned the center as a way to become more competitive in the microelectronics industry and also to direct urban growth and, ultimately, create a city and region that better reflected the private, growth-oriented interests of the Dallas business community. However, when the center began to falter economically in the mid-1960s, TI leaders sought out the state to take it over and transform it into a science and technology graduate school branch of the University of Texas system (UT). The exchange, although mutually beneficial, demonstrates how powerful businesses coopted the resources of the state to further their own ends.

本文探讨了达拉斯商人，特别是德州仪器（TI）领导层的努力，以建立科学和研究部门，以促进1960年代达拉斯和北德克萨斯州的新型资本积累。西南大学毕业生中心（GRCSW）的创建以及随后在1969年转变为德克萨斯州达拉斯的德州公立大学的研究，为战后科学研究和城市发展战略以及企业与政府之间的关系提供了新的视角Sunbelt。TI领导者将这个中心构想为在微电子行业中更具竞争力并指导城市发展的方式，并最终创建了一个城市和地区，更好地反映了达拉斯商业社区的私人，面向增长的利益。然而，当该中心在1960年代中期开始在经济上步履蹒跚时，TI领导人寻求该州接手该州，并将其转变为德克萨斯大学系统（UT）的科学技术研究生院分支机构。这次交流虽然互惠互利，但却展示出强大的企业如何利用国家的资源来实现自己的目标。