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NCInnovation in Practice: The Story of Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross

Dr. Van Dross’s therapeutic has proven effective in controlled lab settings. To advance to FDA analyses and potential human trials,...

$500M Endowment Aims To Back NC University Innovation

A North Carolina organization is using $500 million to rescue university research innovations from “the valley of death.”

CHARLOTTE CELEBRATES A PRODUCTIVE YEAR AT ANNUAL RESEARCH AND BUSINESS PARTNERS CELEBRATION

In addition to highlighting the year’s research successes and showcasing faculty, alumni and students whose research and entrepreneurial ventures exemplify...

New ‘innovation hub’ headquartered at WCU

Western Carolina University has been chosen as one of four universities leading an effort to bolster research innovation in North...

Regional innovation hub at ECU gets new director

A statewide effort that works with ECU and other organizations to develop university research into economic output has appointed a...

Former Truist CEO Kelly King talks NCInnovation’s $500M effort to boost universities, economic outlook

Former Truist CEO Kelly King highlighted a little-known nonprofit's mission, shared his view of the economy and more during a...

NCInnovation garners national attention

Op/ed: King explains NCInnovation’s mission and benefits

NC lawmakers weigh big swing on economic development, using $1.43 billion from taxpayers

Lawmakers are weighing the largest infusion of taxpayer money into a non-state entity in North Carolina history. Opponents say the...

How North Carolina is looking to keep its innovators in the state

“If we can’t find [support] here, we’ll have to move to a place that really understands and nurtures innovation.”

ECU joins partnership to foster innovation in NC

“The power of research is to be able to take it from inside an academic setting to apply it to...

NC Senate budget bill puts $1.4B behind rural advanced technology foundation

“The nonprofit would enable North Carolina to better compete with other states for the ability to commercialize innovations resulting from...

Capital Tonight interview

“Our way out of this is homegrown innovation. We’re doing an awful lot of it, we just need to make...

NCInnovation could ‘transform lives of generations’ with $1.4B in funding, exec says

“A business-led nonprofit has a plan to help North Carolina’s universities better turn its research into creating jobs.”

3 things to know about Senate’s $1.4 billion plan for economic development

“NCInnovation’s plan could particularly help rural areas of North Carolina by not only bringing money, but also business training and...