Sitting in a sunny room with several hundred entrepreneurs and investors in Winston-Salem last month, I was reminded why local investors are so important to our state’s innovation economy. The 44 men ...

Currently, leading economic development theory holds “cluster initiatives” to be a prime example of effective innovation space. According to a recent Brookings Institute report, successful cluster ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

D igital ecosystems aren’t just one of the biggest innovation trends to emerge in recent years. They are quickly gaining economic might. In fact, they could generate an estimated 30% of global ...

Merging physics and environmental science, an interdisciplinary team including a University researcher recently published a paper examining how feedback loops influence ecosystem changes. The paper, ...

If you don’t know what to look for at Crowberry Bog, you’re liable to miss something miraculous, ecologist Joe Rocchio says over the squish squish of his boots through peat on a gray May morning.

From a biological perspective, it is important for scientists and the general public to understand that organisms do interact with their environment; in this sense, it often incorporates the terms ...

EVERY FEW weeks from June 1963 until July 1968, Robert Paine, a zoologist, made the journey from Seattle, where he taught at the University of Washington, across Puget Sound to the rocky shores of ...