What is CIMS

CIMS Organization

The Center for Innovation Managemment Studies (CIMS) is a unique industry/university cooperative research center located at North Carolina State University. The Center is established for the study of technological innovation and its management. Major corporations have partnered with NC State and the National Science Foundation to support this national center of excellence.

Mission

Generate, synthesize and disseminate useful knowledge to manage Technological Innovation.

Vision

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.