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

All innovation is not in new products or technologies, and all innovation is not at new companies. A good deal of innovation takes place within existing companies, and much of it occurs as companies find ways to innovate in their processes — the way they structure and organize their work. In this post, David Boulay, [...]

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 [...]

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.