As a child, I was taught to take risks and color outside the lines. Later, I discovered a love of organizations, particularly visionary companies, and what makes them successful. Creativity, innovation and bringing products to market are not linear processes. It’s messy, complex, exhilarating, frustrating—and it can be done successfully when everything falls into place.
Laura B. Cardinal, Ph.D., SmartState® Endowed Chair + Director, Center for Innovation + Commercialization
Our Focus Is Providing South Carolina with a Strategic Innovation Toolkit So Growing and Established Organizations Flourish.
These are the organizations and people that inspire and motivate us.
We are the strategists, the innovators, the doers who make things happen.
Innovation with Heart: SMTI Cohort Finds Its Magic
Innovation may not immediately conjure images of glass slippers and fairy godmothers, but there is a line from Cinderella that feels particularly fitting to describe this fall’s Strategic Management of… (continued)
Hidden in Plain Sight: SAAI Students Get “On-Track” with Innovation
Railroads are a lot like electricity, Wi-Fi, and the coworker who always remembers to refill the office coffee pot—we rarely appreciate them until something goes wrong. As the students of… (continued)
New Book Published: Research Handbook on Organizational Control, co-edited by Laura B. Cardinal, Markus Kreutzer, and C. Chet Miller
The Research Handbook on Organizational Control, edited by Laura B. Cardinal, Markus Kreutzer, and C. Chet Miller was published by Edward Elgar Publishing (Cheltenham, UK) on May 26, 2026. This… (continued)