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

In previous papers, we’ve looked at why it is essential that government become dramatically more innovative in its own internal operations and programs delivery, to better “translate new ideas and technologies into new systems, products and services.” We’ve looked at some areas where businesses have been innovating, with the idea that government might look to [...]

Innovation in the government space may be the greatest — and most important — opportunity for NC over the next ten years. Seriously.

Innovation, which we define as the translation of “new ideas and technologies into new systems, products and services,” has come to business in six broad areas over the past twenty years. Each of those areas raises some possible areas government might look for progress over the next ten (or twenty) years.