New Carolina: South Carolina's Council on Competitiveness

Champion

 Garry Powers, Director of Economic Development Initiatives, CTC Public Benefit Corporation

Mission

New Carolina's Entrepreneurship Task Force brings together the state's leading groups focused on creating a stronger entrepreneurial environment in South Carolina. There are a lot of groups working on this issue, so the task force tries to keep stakeholders connected. 

New Carolina's Entrepreneurship initiative initially kicked off with a series of conversations, or events, around entrepreneurship. The results included developing a working task force and partners, the New Ideas SC business idea contest, a database of resources and a collaborative support base on entrepreneurship issues.

Goals

1. Increase awareness and grow high impact entrepreneurship in South Carolina
2. Develop a network of business incubators and resources for South Carolina

Reference Library

• Capital Markets Study
• High-Impact Firms in South Carolina
• InnoVenture.com: A business development network
• Calling all educational entrepreneurs: An idea for a new public school model serving poor children by John Warner
• Starting your business in South Carolina by Steve Swanson
• New Carolina Entrepreneurship Champion Garry Powers on SC Business Reveiw