Category: President’s blog
Greenlight Maine Finale is July 1 at 8PM: Don’t Miss it. Three Great Maine Startups are Vying for the $25K Top Prize
As we all know, the color green is synonymous with money and if we recall our symbolism from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock represents prosperity, wealth, and the American Dream. On Thursday night, three Maine companies (Bixby & Co, bluShift Aerospace, and STARC Systems)…
Read more »Strap Yourself In – Top Gun Finale Is Tonight: Watch The Eight Pitch Competition Finalists Compete To Win $25,000
The words Top Gun always evoke memories of the blockbuster Hollywood movie of the 1980s. It also makes me think of a quote I once heard which aptly notes, and I am paraphrasing, that our society is made up of both optimists and pessimists. The optimist invented the airplane, and the pessimist invented the parachute….
Read more »Maine Clean Energy Innovation Challenge Launched: MTI to Start Accepting Proposals for Grant Funding in Mid-May
On Earth Day 2021, I was honored to join Governor Janet Mills at ReVision Energy in Montville to commemorate the 51st annual Earth Day celebration – – a global phenomenon where over a billion people worldwide are mobilized to highlight environmental issues and action – – and to launch the Maine Clean Energy Innovation Challenge….
Read more »Maine is Uniquely Positioned to Become a Global Leader in Aquaculture: MTI Investments in Aquaculture & Marine Eclipsed All Other Sectors Last Year
Recently, I had an opportunity to present MTI’s perspective on Maine’s aquaculture industry, as well as its inherent strengths, opportunities, and challenges. The occasion presented me a chance to dig a little deeper into the data regarding MTI’s investments in the sector, as well as other related studies and research about the industry. While MTI…
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