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State's leading newspapers editorial support of S&T plan:

11/14/05

The Bangor Daily News and the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel offer editorial support for the newly released State Science and Technology Plan. Both papers endorse the focus on expanding private sector R&D to enhance Maine's economic position.


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Science and Technology Plan Press Release:

11/4/05

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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Innovation Index Press Release:

11/2/05

Augusta, Maine - State investments targeted at growing Maine's research and development (R&D) capacity are paying off, according to two reports released this week by the Office of Innovation (OOI), a division of the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD). According to the report, Maine now ranks 10th in the country in non–profit R&D activity.


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Fall Newsletter:

10/25/05

Throughout history, new imaging capabilities – from the first 17th-century light microscopes to the latest MRIs and electron microscopes – have opened new worlds in biomedical research. But today, with such breakthroughs as the sequencing of human and mouse genomes, researches need nanoscale imaging technologies to explore the structure and function of genes and chromosone.


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Innovation News, October 2005:

10/7/05

Bangor - Five University of Maine professors who helped the state understand that university research could improve the economy were honored Thursday by the University of Maine Foundation.

Dubbed the “Faculty Five,” George Jacobson, Stephen Norton, George Markowsky, Malcolm Hunter and David Smith undertook a grass–roots campaign, beginning in 1995, to travel across Maine spreading the word about the need for greater state investment in university research.


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Stillwater Scientific Instruments Raises $1.15 Million in Venture Capital from Maine Investors:

10/7/05

ORONO, ME -- August 9, 2005 -- Stillwater Scientific Instruments, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of advanced analytical instrumentation, announces that it has closed on a Series A Preferred Round of financing valued at $1.15 million. Participating in this round are Maine-based firms CEI Ventures, the Maine Technology Institute (MTI), the Small Enterprise Growth Fund (SEGF), Mark Waite of Launch Momentum, and other private investors. Stillwater will use the funding to continue development of its line of mass spectrometry products, to hire executive-level management required to bring the company to the next stage of development, and to fund its efforts toward securing top-tier customers.


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