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An Examination Of The Influence Of Sustainability On Business Strategy In The Three-Dimensional Printing Industry, Yvette Alexandrou Apr 2022

An Examination Of The Influence Of Sustainability On Business Strategy In The Three-Dimensional Printing Industry, Yvette Alexandrou

Honors College

3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is an emerging field that has yet to find its place in society. Research and development in the 3D printing industry spans a vast range of technologies, materials, and applications. Many say that it is still in search of its “killer app,” a tool or capability that will lead to mass popularity the way the internet and personal computers played an essential role in the exponential growth of the computer industry (Kurman & Lipson, 2013; Misek, 2013). New entrepreneurs and established business executives involved with the 3D printing industry are scanning the field …


Venna Dinesh: Accelerating Innovation, University Of Maine Alumni Association Jan 2022

Venna Dinesh: Accelerating Innovation, University Of Maine Alumni Association

General University of Maine Publications

Black Bear alumni, faculty, staff, and students are among Maine's most productive innovators and entrepreneurs. In this month's oolumn, we hear from Veena Dinesh, whose role is to help UMaine's innovators bring their ideas to life. As the university's director of business incubation, Dinesh leads efforts to accelerate university innovations, coordinating several programs that help faculty, staff, and students understand the market potential of an idea or research discovery and find the right path to move it ahead. As UMaine prepares to launch its fifth cohort of the MIRTA accelerator program, which is designed to advance university research innovations on …


The New Age Of Aerospace: How Can Maine Leverage Its Assets And Engage In New Space?, Andrew Hutchins May 2021

The New Age Of Aerospace: How Can Maine Leverage Its Assets And Engage In New Space?, Andrew Hutchins

Honors College

This study seeks to discern Maine’s ability to attain competitive advantage in the emerging new space economy, and in addition suggest strategic measures that can be taken by Maine’s public and private leaders to maximize the potential growth and economic impact Maine’s emerging new space industry offers. The research question was originally “how can Maine position itself to become an aerospace hub?” but after learning more about the differences between “aerospace” and “new space,” the research question morphed into “how can Maine position itself to become a new space hub?” This was a qualitative study that featured nine semi-structured interviews …


An Automation Algorithm For Harvesting Capital Market Information From The Web, Pankaj Agrrawal Jan 2009

An Automation Algorithm For Harvesting Capital Market Information From The Web, Pankaj Agrrawal

Finance Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this paper is to develop an algorithm to harvest user specified information on finance portals and compile it into machine‐readable datasets for quantitative analysis. The Visual Basic macro language in Microsoft Excel is applied to develop code that is not constrained by the single‐query function of Excel. The core of the algorithm is built around the splitting of the URL connector line and the placement of a continuously updating variable into which are looped as many tickers as there are in the input list. The output is then written to non‐overlapping cells. Numerical information placed on major …