Solomon Darwin is an American professor of business and the director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation and the executive director of the Center for Growth Markets at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Solomon Darwin is the director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation and the executive director of the Center for Growth Markets at the Haas School of Business and previously was an associate professor at the University of Southern California from 1996 until 2005 before joining UC Berkeley.

Under his leadership, the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at UC Berkeley established its first smart village prototype in India.

[9][10] Darwin defines a Smart Village as "a community empowered by Digital Technologies & Open Innovation platforms to access global markets.

"[11] He argues that such villages are a means of "empowering people with access to tools, resources, real-time transparent information, and uninterrupted internet connectivity.