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Gov. Mark Sanford on Wednesday said USC is right to move away from a "field of dreams" approach of constructing speculative buildings in its Innovista research campus to attract high-tech businesses.
A major tenant planned for USC's struggling research campus, Innovista, is instead moving into a downtown Columbia office tower several blocks away.
USC is struggling to attract $23 million in outside money it still needs to match the $58 million the state gave it to help construct two buildings in its Innovista research campus.
USC has focused too much on new buildings and not enough on selling the benefits the university can provide to businesses that might locate in its struggling research campus, Innovista's new boss said Friday.