From Friction to Flow: Mapping South Dakota’s Innovation Assets
South Dakota has the talent, research capacity, institutional assets, and many other resources needed to support growing companies. What it has often lacked is a clear way to connect them. That connection is central to the USD Discovery District’s mission: linking the university core strengths—research, talent, and institutional capacity—with private sector resources and companies. The new resource mapping tool, developed by Dr. Marc Niamba, is a direct expression of that purpose.