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

This Thursday the Governor’s Innovation Council will kick off what appears to be a couple of year’s worth of meetings, 9:00 am- 12:30 pm at the NC Museum of Natural Science in downtown Raleigh.
The Council, co-chaired by Steve Nelson of the Wakefield Group and Al Delia, the Governor’s Senior Policy Advisor, looks to have 30 [...]

Gov. Perdue announced the formation of the NC Innovation Council on Monday, November 16.

“We need to ensure that our people understand innovation and understand why it is very important for kids in North Carolina to learn in a different way and think in a different way,” Perdue said. “Their lives are going to be very different from the lives of the 1990s student. The economic edge they are going to have to have to be globally competitive is wrapped around curiosity, invention and innovation.”

Well, amen. And yahoo!

So what kinds of ideas could the Council recommend that would really move things along, help develop NC’s innovation soil/ecosystem/infrastructure, build understanding and momentum?

We have three starter ideas that just might be the right size for a Council to get behind. They could set the stage for a bunch of other good things to happen, and could show people what an innovation-driven state would look, feel and act like.

The moon is in the 7th house. Jupiter is aligned with Mars. It’s the dawning of the age of… innovation in North Carolina. Maybe.