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Healthcare Technology Identified as Important Industry for South Carolina

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Our state’s research universities have been collaborating with SCRA, a public, nonprofit focused on South Carolina’s innovation economy, to identify applied research areas in which we have high-caliber talent, infrastructure, financial resources, and commercial relevance.  Two recent grant announcements have resulted from this work, one in the area of medical devices and the other in technology-enabled population health.

Mike Switzer interviews Christine Dixon-Thiesing, director of academic programs at SCRA in Charleston, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.