The Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS) is an industry and university research cooperative established for the study of technological innovation and its management. It links technology management practitioners and researchers in the industrial and academic communities for the purpose of advancing research-based knowledge about the management of technological innovation. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science, and a diverse group of industrial firms, it supports studies on topics that industrial R&D managers across the country have identified as important for improving the understanding and effective management of the technological innovation process.
Its mission is to generate, synthesize and disseminate useful knowledge to manage technological innovation.
To be a preeminent center for academic research on the management of the technological innovation process, whose results are perceived as valuable by the sponsors in increasing the productivity and effectiveness of technological change and by the community of scholars for framing and resolving important questions of substance and method in the management of innovation.
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"Our vision for the SCRC is to create a clearinghouse for industry, faculty and student interaction. Since our start in 2000, we have done a lot to make sure our participating companies are integrated into the curriculum, providing an ongoing forum for discussion, knowledge exchange and research."
