Monthly Archives: September 2010

Looking at the Hill from the mountains

September 28, 2010 – 11:12 am

The Inter-City Visit and Leadership Conference is all about gaining a new perspective. Earlier this month, our vantage point was from the mountains as 75 of us spent 2½ days in Asheville, learning about the community we were visiting as well as the community we call home. So how did the Hill look from way [...]

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The Entrepreneurial University: what these ideas mean

September 27, 2010 – 9:55 am

In the last few weeks, the book I wrote with Buck Goldstein, “Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the 21st Century” has been published by UNC Press. We’re very excited to have the book out, and we hope to get lots of sales because all of the royalties will go to support entrepreneurship at [...]

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Innovation should be bottom-up

September 2, 2010 – 12:41 pm

On Thursday, I attended the first meeting of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The council is a collection of individuals from higher education, high-tech industry, venture capital and other sectors convened to help define the federal government’s role in promoting innovation. The need couldn’t be greater. The U.S. economy of late has [...]

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