Interviewed by Matthew Muñoz and Art Seavey
In this interview, Anita Brown-Graham, director of the Institute for Emerging Issues, explains the importance of creativity to innovation and North Carolina. The IEI’s 25th Annual Emerging Issues Forum on Creativity begins today at 8:00 a.m. at the Raleigh Convention Center. Watch live and join the dialogue via Twitter #IEI2010 and the IEI collaboration platform.
My 9-year-old son nearly caused a single car accident last week. On the way to a basketball game, he asked the question every Psych-English major parent dreads: “How does chemistry work, Dad?” As someone who hangs out with scientists sometimes during the day, I felt the pressure: I had to get this one right. My [...]
Ouch. North Carolina has just blown through a couple of Maginot lines we really didn’t want to cross. We’ve just crossed the 500,000 unemployed mark — a half million people who want work can’t find it. And unemployment jumped north of 11% on Friday — to a 30-year high.
With more than 90% of our jobs [...]
The January 14 first meeting of the Governor’s Innovation Council showed the promise and the challenge of such councils.
On the one hand, there was a good chunk of energy in the room as a mix of big and small businessmen and women, elected officials, government types, higher ed folks, venture capitalists, nonprofit leaders and others [...]
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