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

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 [...]

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 [...]

The efforts of other states confirm what we already knew. To grow more innovative companies that create more and better jobs, North Carolina will have to address some of our capital gaps.

If North Carolina is going to have a conversion experience and drink the sweet tea of innovationalism, there’s plenty of work to do and plenty of ways to imagine organizing the work.

Why should we change anything in North Carolina?