Month: July 2024
Mid-Summer Update – MTI Launches PRIME 2.0
Happy Summer! This month, we thought it appropriate to focus on some of our food-related companies – with a special nod to one of Maine’s favorite delicacies, lobster! Earlier this month we launched PRIME 2.0, to assist businesses within the seven targeted technology sectors and help them mitigate the adverse economic impacts associated with the…
Read more »Wild Blueberries in Washington County – SBIR Support Helps Family-Owned Business with Innovative Application
Wicked Wild’s farm is typical of many small to midsized Maine wild blueberry farms. Uneven terrain and boulders have historically required hand raking which is labor intensive. The general practice for these farms is to burn the fields in the early spring by laying straw harvested from the farm on the fields. This practice changed…
Read more »Luke’s Lobster – Innovative, Sustainable and…Yummy!
It’s summer in Maine, and for many, that means lobster! The lobster industry supports a wide range of innovative businesses, quite a few of which MTI has supported. For this month, we chose to focus on Luke’s Lobster – a company that has managed to take the simple delicacy of a Maine lobster roll and…
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