South By North Strategies, Ltd.

Innovation plays an essential role in economic growth, yet less well understood is just  how innovation works and how an innovative climate can be fostered . To bring some clarity to those issues at the state level, a group of civic leaders in North Carolina recently launched Change Papers, a blog that strives to generate a discussion about how North Carolina can become more innovative.

Recent papers have focused on what government can learn from the private sector, how open-source models can generate new ideas, and how innovation can be fostered.