| Small business centers launch eCommerce startup series The Greenville Area Small Business Development Center, Piedmont Service Corp of Retired Executives and the CommunityWorks Women’s Business Center are partnering to present a three-part series on starting an e-commerce business in the Upstate. The series starts March 15. Midlands struggle to retain USC graduates According to a study released March 3, the university creates one out of every nine jobs in the Midlands, but nearly 62% of graduates live elsewhere. The study found that the school has an annual S.C. economic impact of $6.2 billion. | 
Clemson University's Yue "Sophie" Wang is leading an effort to develop robots for Nephron Pharmaceuticals that prefill and cap syringes in order to help bridge the supply gap for the sector. The pharmaceutical robotic systems market is expected to double to $199.46 million from five years ago.
In the early 1990s, Eric B. Michael was treating many 
