Madeline Smith

Head of Strategy at the Innovation School, Glasgow School of Art

Madeline Smith specialises strategy and evaluation for clusters, innovation, and triple helix collaborations. At GSA she leads the research and enterprise strategy for the Innovation School, as well as the development and delivery of a portfolio of programmes using design to build the innovative capacity of businesses, public sector organisations and communities. Initially training as an engineer, she had led large scale improvement programmes in private sector manufacturing environments, as well as strategic policy on innovation for regional development, and she continues to work internationally on the supporting cluster policy.