Christopher Wink

Not small business. Not big business. New business. A policy advocate and new Kauffman research argue the importance and looming threats.

A viral Monet experiment exposed how badly we judge AI art. A Philadelphia creative technologist argues that’s not really the question.

Two hundred fifty years after Britain mistook American discord for weakness, entrepreneurship has become the rare movement uniting all 50 states — not despite our differences, but because of them.

A new NSF Engine in Cleveland revives an old question — whether a startup or an incumbent should turn research into products — and brings up a better one: whether that distinction serves the people it’s meant to.

This month OpenAI’s models broke out of a test and hacked a rival. The first time software escaped its creator, the answer arrived within days — and the lineage runs straight from there to here.

North Dakota has serious research and agtech commercialization, but lagging startup formation — and a storytelling need.

The place that launched Microsoft and raised Jeff Bezos still struggles with brain drain. But innovative training models and a tri-state initiative offer lessons (and warnings) for economic developers everywhere.

Every parish saw new business filings rise, but data from New Orleans, Lafayette and Baton Rouge shows why founder support matters in a shrinking region.

Count patents by who owns them and Delaware runs away with it. Count by where inventors actually live and Massachusetts, California and Washington rise — a distinction that tells leaders where to focus.

For the next year, we're reporting on the scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs shaping Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, with support from Research Triangle Park.