IEI Newsletter

October IEI Newsletter

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:02:42 +0000

Institute for Emerging Issues This month marks an important milestone in the history of the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI). On October 23, we will celebrate the official groundbreaking of our new home: the James B. Hunt, Jr. Library. Twenty-five years ago, Governor Hunt began the Emerging Issues Forum at NC State so that the state’s leaders could come together to consider the pressing challenges facing North Carolina and find solutions to address them. In 2002, it became appare...

July IEI Newsletter

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:59:36 +0000

Institute for Emerging Issues IEI is known for looking ahead in its ongoing efforts to convene stakeholders to discuss and debate the challenges affecting North Carolina’s future growth and prosperity. However, soliciting innovative policy solutions and generating consensus recommendations often requires us to tie new ideas to past success stories. We are delighted, therefore, by the opportunity to enhance our public policy process through the North Carolina Interactive Gallery and Policy...

June IEI Newsletter

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:43:39 +0000

Institute for Emerging Issues Just last week, hundreds of visitors from 52 different nations descended on Raleigh for the XXVI International Association of Science Parks World Conference. The Research Triangle Park region played proud host to the conference as it boasted the 50th Anniversary of RTP, which is the largest science park in the world and regarded by many as the most successful. Kudos to North Carolina. Our state is home to a plethora of organizations which, like the Research Triangl...

May IEI Newsletter

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:01:34 +0000

Institute for Emerging Issues In last month’s Director’s Note, I commented on the unique spirit of civic engagement and collaboration that exists in North Carolina and, in large part, drives our state’s progress. Exemplary of our cross-sector cooperation, last week IEI hosted a Leadership Retreat in Greensboro to help develop our newest program of work. In previous years, Retreat participants were asked to address concrete issues facing North Carolina: infrastructure, energy, ...

Update: North Carolina's Energy Futures

Fri, 22 May 2009 17:55:18 +0000

Update: North Carolinia's Energy Futures: Realizing a State of Opportunity Develop a Green Workforce Governor Perdue’s JobsNOW initiative and the North Carolina Community College System’s “Code Green” initiative seek to expand green-collar jobs training at the state’s community colleges. Recruit and Sustain New Energy Businesses The movement of state’s energy functions to the NC Department of Commerce under HR bill 1481 sends a clear signal that green e...

Business Committee Releases Recommendations -- April IEI Newsletter

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:39:33 +0000

Institute for Emerging Issues In this month's Director’s Note, I would like to focus on the particular function of business leaders in IEI’s work, and to ask whether you agree that business leaders in North Carolina are committed to supporting the public good of the state. Just this past year, IEI convened twenty-one private sector energy stakeholders representing investor owned utility companies, renewable source companies, large industrial consumers of energy, and private capital ...

IEI Newsletter - March 2009

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:37:37 +0000

Institute for Emerging Issues When last I wrote you, we were in the midst of final preparations for the 2009 Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) Forum, Changing Landscapes: Building the Good Growth State?, which was by all accounts a success. The sold-out crowd at the Convention Center and number of you listening to the live audio stream on our website was a testament to the timeliness of the topic and the caliber of our Forum speakers. In fact, much of your feedback echoed the words of Forum s...

IEI Newsletter - January

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:30:12 +0000

Institute for Emerging Issues Anticipation is high for the 2009 Emerging Issues Forum, Changing Landscapes: Building the Good Growth State? As we share our Forum agenda with leaders across the state, it is clear that IEI’s focus on our state’s growth and infrastructure could not come at a better time. North Carolina will likely be allocated federal funds in a national infrastructure stimulus package, and the state will itself contemplate infrastructure investments. We will need to q...