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Entrepreneurship

A Start-up Grows Up in the Innovation Quarter

October 5, 2016
The moment they met, Rob Arnold knew Nathan Powell was the one to help him get Threat Sketch—Rob’s cybersecurity start-up—off the ground. “I showed Nathan what I was working on, and when he said ‘I know what you’re doing. I understand that,’ I was so…
Bailey Blues & Bluegrass

Bailey Blues & Bluegrass: A Revival of Old-Time Soul

September 26, 2016
When Richard Emmett walks the streets of downtown Winston-Salem, his mind looks past the present landscape and sees shades of the past. Before Trade Street was the Arts District, it was known as Old Town Street, and it drew rural farmers into town to sell…
Entrepreneurship

Cognistx: Cognitive Computing and Innovation

August 31, 2016
Gathered around a whiteboard in the kitchen of their office suite, Sanjay Chopra and Karen Barnes are deep in conversation in a language that is all their own. Among the markings and whir of their brainstorm, a few words filter through the mass of information:…
Community, Ecosystem

Start-up Community Introduced 2 New Members

August 25, 2016
A strong innovation ecosystem requires a vibrant start-up community. In a city dedicated to “arts and innovation” and founded on entrepreneurs like the early Moravian settlers, R.J. Reynolds and the Hanes brothers, it is only fitting to carry on the city’s entrepreneurial legacy through a…
Community

SciTech Institute Inspires Students to Pursue STEM Careers

August 18, 2016
The two dozen seventh graders laugh and flex as they don blue lab coats and safety goggles. They are seated around six lab benches in the Atkinson Science Building on the Winston-Salem State University campus, peering at the beakers, microscopes and other implements in the…

From the President: Past and Future

August 18, 2016
As summer winds to a close, vacations end and students come back to school, we find ourselves reflecting on the past while looking forward toward the future. The last several months have brought tremendous change to the Innovation Quarter. Construction has begun on developing the…
Community

People of the Innovation Quarter: Meet Scott Rushing

August 8, 2016
Sun pours in the glass windows of Scott Rushing’s office in 525@vine. I find the director of research information systems for Public Health Sciences fiddling with a golf putter in his office against the backdrop of some pretty amazing clouds visible out the window that…
Entrepreneurship

5 Secrets to Start-Up Company Success

August 4, 2016
What does it take to launch and grow a start-up? Local biomaterials company KeraNetics—a global leader in purified keratin medical products for wound care and tissue regeneration – is a prime example of an invention that spun out of a research laboratory at Wake Forest…
Arts

Black Horse Studio: Innovation and the Art of Photography

July 25, 2016
It’s snowing at home in cozy Winston-Salem. But Lee Runion and Jennifer Bostic could care less: they are on a 50-foot yacht floating in the Gulf of Mexico, right off the coast of sunny Florida. The weather couldn’t be better, and the view isn’t bad…

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