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Maine’s Technology Sectors and Clusters: Status and strategy
Maine’s effort to grow a more technology intensive economy is well underway. While there are weaknesses and challenges, the foundations are strong and can be further supported, particularly by the development of technology clusters.
Choose from three basic Cluster Report formats.

Cluster Report - Executive - Final 041508

Filesize: 205 KB

Cluster Report - Full - Final 040908


Filesize: 3.7MB

Cluster Report Introduction - Final 040208


Filesize: 2MB

Maine Innovation Index 2008
Maine's economy has expanded from its traditional bases of forestry, fishing, agriculture, tourism and manufacturing to include an increasing influence from business, financial and health services, information technologies, biomedical technologies, advanced materials, aquaculture, and advanced manufacturing.


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Maine Comprehensive Research and Development Evaluation 2007
A Report to the Maine Office of Innovation, Department of Economic and Community Development


Filesize: 726KB

2007 Maine Innovation Index
Maine's Innovation Index 2007 is a compilation of 24 indicators measuring Maine's economic capacity and progress toward competing in an innovation-driven economy.


Filesize: 469KB

Maine Comprehensive Research and Development Evaluation 2006
A Report to the Maine Office of Innovation, Department of Economic and Community Development


Filesize: 613KB

Evaluation of Maine's Public Investments in Research & Development - Final Report
This fifth annual assessment of Maine's investments in R&D was conducted during 2005-06. With respect to the three core questions posed by the Maine legislature, we find significant progress as well as continuing challenges to make Maine more competitive in the knowledge economy of the 21st century.


Filesize: 710KB

Wood-Based Bio-Fuels and Bio-Products: A Maine Status Report
Maine has an opportunity to position itself as a leader in the emerging industry of conversion of wood to bio-fuels and bio-products. With a long history of forest industry, and significant and varied forest resources, the State of Maine has the resources, industrial infrastructure and intellectual institutions to capitalize on this research.


Filesize: 399KB

Evaluation of Maine's Investments in Research & Development 2005-06 Report Highlights
This fifth annual assessment of Maine's investments in R&D was conducted during 2005-06. With respect to the three core questions posed by the Maine legislature, we find significant progress as well as continuing challenges to make Maine more competitive in the knowledge economy of the 21st century.


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Maine Science and Technology Action Plan:
Today, people, products, and ideas move across the globe more easily than our grandparents traveled across town. The economy is no longer driven by manpower or machinery, but by minds - and the knowledge, innovation, and creativity they produce.


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Maine Science and Technology Action Plan Executive Summary:
Today, people, products, and ideas move across the globe more easily than our grandparents traveled across town. The economy is no longer driven by manpower or machinery, but by minds - and the knowledge, innovation, and creativity they produce.


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Research and Development Evaluation and Innovation Index:
This fourth annual assessment of Maine's investments in R&D was conducted during 2004–05. With respect to the three core questions posed by the Maine legislature, we find significant progress as well as continuing challenges to make Maine more competitive in the knowledge economy of the 21st century.


Filesize: 890KB

Maine Innovation Index 2004:
It is with tremendous pleasure that the Department of Economic and Community Development presents the Maine Innovation Index 2004. This report measures a broad range of indicators relevant to the technology-based economy, and highlights Maine's strengths and challenges.


Filesize: 899KB

Evaluation of Maine's Public Investments in Research & Development:
This report is the third annual assessment of Maine's investments in R&D. It is part of a six-year effort to collect relevant information, put it in the context of economic developments in Maine, New England, the EPSCoR states, and the nation, and provide advice to the Governor and legislature on policies to help create a more competitive Maine. The project is unique in its meaningful inclusion of stakeholders around Maine, in its continuity over time, and in the periodic interplay between the evaluation team and policymakers in Augusta.


Filesize: 1,105KB