Change Papers: A shared effort to change North Carolina's climate for innovation.

It’s summer – time to spend just a bit of your time kicking back doing summer reading.
And time for the ChangePapers.org  SUMMER WRITING ASSIGNMENT.
Don’t worry. This is a quick and painless one. And if you do it right you can supercharge someone else’s thinking too.
Our challenge: spend no more than five minutes thinking about the [...]

A six pack of questions to test your entrepreneurial acumen:
1. Which racial/ethnic group is most likely to start a small business?
A.Whites
B. African Americans
C. Latinos/Hispanics
D. Asians
2. At what age is someone most likely to start a business?
A. 25-34
B. 35-44
C. 45-54
D. 55-64
3. If you had to pick, which of these four groups would be most likely to [...]

A pretty big tree just fell in the forest of innovation in North Carolina. It’s not clear that a whole lot of people heard.
In the crowded showroom of a restaurant supply business in Raleigh last Wednesday, Gov. Bev Perdue announced she was naming Scott Daugherty, head of UNC’s NC State-housed  Small Business and Technology Development [...]

Google’s announcement that the company is considering providing somewhere between 50,000 and 500,000 people across the United States broadband Internet access with a speed of a gigabit per second starting (maybe) later this year. It’s a reminder of the arms race going on with broadband speed.
If the “giga” prefix sends you to Wikipedia or your [...]