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 Interrupted: A Semester of Surprises in SMTI
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Innovating with Intention: Strategy Students Partner with Expert in Prostate Cancer to Reenvision Technology to Support Screening Decisions
In the fast-paced, buzzword-buzzing world of business strategy, one course at the University of South Carolina (USC) is reexamining long-time problems with a modern-day twist. Welcome to MGMT 775: Strategic Analysis and… (continued)
Spring 2025 SIPP Cohort Boasts Brains, Business, and Even a Bit of Southern Charm
At the University of South Carolina, there’s a spring breeze of brilliance blowing through the air—and it’s coming straight from the Strategic Innovation Planning and Processes (SIPP) course at the Darla Moore… (continued)