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

As a red-blooded adult male, I try to limit my crying to the biggies: birth of children, the Olympic theme song, and AT&T commercials.
As a policy wonk, I try to set similarly high standards: to make me cry, data has to 1) tell me something I don’t know; 2) anticipate all the questions I will [...]

‘Tis the season – for resolutions. We love to make em; we tend to break ‘em. But what if people got a gift to help them keep their resolution? We’ve arranged ten gifts with ten key NC innovation players for 2010 in mix ‘n match format.

David Brooks’ op-ed in the New York Times December 8 takes a look at President Obama’s “national innovation agenda,” and highlights nine things the columnist thinks are important about it. Whether you agree or not with what his  nine things are, the op-ed is valuable mostly as a reminder that there is a developing “national [...]

Government can innovate. New technology makes it possible and smart people make it probable – if we can turn them loose on solving the problems – if we can let them innovate.