Mayor Joines and Mayor Elect Foxx Appointed to Gov.’s New Innovation Council

Spontaneity of innovation, meet govt (News and Observer)

The creative and instinctive nature of innovation will now be channeled through, yes, a government agency.

Gov. Bev Perdue, by executive order, established the state’s first Innovation Council on Monday. The group’s mission is to: coordinate public and private investment to promote innovation, help move ideas faster from the lab to the marketplace and improve the collaboration between business, academia and government.

Perdue announced the creation of the council during a visit to the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem.

The council will be chaired by Al Delia, senior adviser to Perdue, and Steve Nelson, managing partner of the Wakefield Group.

(Dome wanted to provide a link to the Wakefield Group’s Web site but found the site was down and has been for months. Nelson said the firm was receiving too many unsolicited business offers over the Internet and doesn’t need to market itself on the web.)

Click here to see full list of members including Winston Salem Mayor Allen Joines and Charlotte Mayor Elect Foxx.

Submitted by markjohnson on November 16, 2009 – 5:01pm.
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