Innovation occurs in an ecosystem, where individual components thrive off one another and allow for evolution.
Those components—entrepreneurial spirit, research and development, intellectual property lawyers, venture capital availability, among others—exist in Wilmington. But they’re not quite churning—yet.
So says John Hardin, executive director of the N.C. Board of Science & Technology, who visited the Port City on Thursday to observe its potential in the innovation economy.
Image: From left, John Hardin and Scott Doron of the N.C. Office of Science & Technology. Photo by Ben Brown.
