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

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 [...]

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 [...]