https://thehickoryhound.blogspot.com/2025/12/structural-schisms-7-absent-innovation.html
⚙️Structural Schisms 7: The Absent Innovation Core - Hickory helped wire the modern world, but never modernized itself. This new report explains how a region that builds global digital infrastructure still runs on outdated civic systems—and what it will take to finally close that gap.
Inside the analysis:
• Why the region exports innovation but doesn’t apply it locally
• How workforce attrition and aging demographics deepen the tech vacuum
• What Winston-Salem’s Innovation Quarter shows about leadership alignment
• How Hickory can build a real modernization pipeline from schools to industry
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