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From the President: Building Vibrant Community

Often when I speak about Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, I refer to it as a community. That is more than just a nice buzzword meant to conjure images of people milling about, engaged in various activities. Community is actually at the very heart of what…
Entrepreneurship

A Start-up Grows Up in the Innovation Quarter

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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