Ecosystem Archives - Innovation Quarter

Scaling Your Startup: How Innovation Districts Provide the Tools for Growth

December 18, 2024

Like never before, the contemporary business landscape is marked by the rapid growth of a myriad of startups as the market becomes increasingly competitive. This progress is driven by technological advancements, evolving customer needs, and a dynamic business landscape.The constant changes also bring many challenges…

Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Ecosystem

Keeping Innovation Running: Unsung Heroes Working in the Innovation Quarter

November 24, 2024

Have you ever attended an event in the Innovation Quarter? Or stepped foot in one of the many buildings that comprise the innovation district? If so, you’ve reaped the rewards of a job well done by behind-the-scenes people working in the Innovation Quarter. A bustling…

Community, Ecosystem

Encore Bank: When Your Banker Is Also a Neighbor

November 20, 2024

It’s 4 pm on a Friday, and you’re facing a dilemma. It’s a little last-minute. Do you send that text message or not? You finally decide to press send, but you quickly follow up your request with another message: “But I hate to interrupt your…

Young-Joon Seol Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) demonstrates Bioprinting muscle tissue, Richard H. Dean Biomedical Building (A1).

Ecosystem

How Regenerative Medicine is Changing Healthcare: From Cell Therapies to Organ Regrowth

November 13, 2024

Regenerative medicine focuses on regenerating, repairing, or growing human cells, tissues, and organs. This is usually done to repair or replace damaged tissues and organs using cell therapy, tissue engineering, and organ regrowth techniques. Regenerative medicine aims to restore the body's normal function by employing…

A scientist working at the bench in the Wet Lab LaunchPad located in the Dean Biomedical Research Building.

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What Are the Advantages of Wet Lab Spaces for Startups?

November 13, 2024

The biotech and life science industries have been experiencing rapid growth in the past couple of years. The rising number of new biotech startups, coupled with innovations in gene editing, cell therapy, and drug discovery, has increased the need for specialized lab spaces, namely wet…

Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship

Welcoming the New Neighbor: The 5 Ws of Sparq Labs

September 30, 2024

There’s a new kid on the block in the Innovation Quarter. The iQ recently announced the opening of Sparq Labs, the iQ’s newest amenity for life science companies. With its relationship to Sparq, the startup and small business launchpad, Sparq Labs may actually be less…

Greater Winston Salem Inc. Chamber of the Year Award

Community, Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship

Greater Winston-Salem Inc. What’s in a Name and Why Does It Matter?

August 26, 2024

News Flash: "Greater Winston-Salem Inc. (the organization formerly known as the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce) wins 2024 Chamber of the Year!" The Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) may think that Greater Winston-Salem Inc. is the most outstanding chamber of commerce in the country,…

Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship

Healthtech Startup Brinter Completes Prestigious Tech Accelerator

August 5, 2024

If you thought graduation season was over, think again! While many people and institutions are starting to gear up for another school year, one Innovation Quarter tenant is celebrating a graduation of a different kind. In June, Brinter, a healthtech startup that is part of…

Community, Ecosystem, Lifestyle

Want to Build a Community? Think Public Space.

July 2, 2024

Publicly accessible space. The term doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Even if you shorten it to “public space,” it doesn’t strike most people as the most fascinating topic in the world. Hold back that yawn, however. There’s a whole world behind the creation of…

Community, Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship

Sparq-ing Entrepreneurs: Meet Austin Moody, Amplifier of Small Business

June 20, 2024

Austin Moody has built a business on helping small businesses, a passion that grew from roots early in his childhood. Small business is in his blood; it’s in his family. His grandfather started the Mayflower Seafood Restaurant on Peters Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem, which his…

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