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

Now the good news: we in North Carolina are not alone. Some other states are smacking their foreheads too (and other nations, as well, as noted in Paper 02 and here), and the sorts of things they are trying as they recover from their head slaps can give us some good ideas about what works and what doesn’t.

In this paper, guest poster Ted Zoller, associate professor for entrepreneurship at Kenan-Flagler Business School and Executive Director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, makes a key distinction between two creative parts of what we have defined as innovation (See Paper 02): invention – the act of creating a new technology, product, process or [...]