Monthly Archives: March 2011

In the thick of America’s innovation business at Carolina

March 28, 2011 – 9:16 am

North Carolina and Chapel Hill took advantage of a rare opportunity recently when a group of advisers to President Obama on economic policy convened here on the Carolina campus instead of inside the Beltway. About 400 local entrepreneurs, government representatives, faculty, students and others interested in innovation and how it can help drive the economy [...]

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Steve Case and Desh Deshpande talk innovation

March 18, 2011 – 1:30 pm

Steve Case and Desh Deshpande were in town this week for our meeting of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE). The night before the meeting, they were kind enough to spend time talking to students with me at the Global Education Center: It was a thrill to talk to these two American [...]

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Entrepreneurs, universities, young people: join us March 14, 15

March 7, 2011 – 5:31 pm

Since we published “Engines of Innovation,” Buck Goldstein and I have been noticing numerous actions where thought leaders seem to be moving closer to the ideas we suggested in the book. Some of our big points are that universities are sources of innovation, that cooperation with private sector entrepreneurs could be useful if done right, [...]

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