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Three women chat before a Venture Cafe gathering.

Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship

Through the Eyes of Entrepreneurs: What Venture Café Brings to the Triad

June 6, 2019

From her glass box of an office that overhangs Turbine Hall in Bailey Power Plant, Karen Barnes gets a bird’s eye view of the burgeoning innovation community that gathers every Thursday night for Venture Café Winston-Salem. “In just two years, we’ve seen so much,” Barnes…

A rendering of the Bailey South building, which is being developed in the Innovation Quarter.

Diversity & Inclusion

Vison for Bailey South Winston-Salem

October 22, 2018

For Coleman Team it wasn’t an easy decision. It was the only decision that really made any sense. Standing on the corner of Fourth Street and N. Patterson Avenue a little over a year ago, Team could see the future laid out in front of…

Arts, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Event Recap

Juneteenth Festival 2018

June 16, 2018

A recap of an Innovation & Cinema movie screening on June 16, 2018 in Bailey Park in the Innovation Quarter.

A couple of entrepreneurs playing with a drone

Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Ecosystem

Unexpected Opportunities: Exploring Innovative Education in the Innovation Quarter

December 7, 2017

The Miracle on Ice. Hoosiers. The Jamaican bobsled team. Everyone loves an underdog. We cheer for fourth quarter comebacks and Cinderella stories, the ones that inspire movies like Eddie the Eagle, The Blindside and Rudy. There’s something about the unexpected that resonates with us. Many worried what would happen to…

A group of women look at an old newspaper

Community, Diversity & Inclusion

Remembering the Past to Shape the Future

December 18, 2015

Read how the Innovation Quarter partnered with local groups to commemorate the history around the former tobacco factories. Winston-Salem’s history as a center of the tobacco industry from the late 1800s through the end of the 20th century is well-documented. Some of the history you…

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