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S6e11: How Can Teaching Innovation Fuel Maine’S Economy?, Ron Lisnet, Renee Kelly, Amber Boutiette, Tyler Delargy Apr 2022

S6e11: How Can Teaching Innovation Fuel Maine’S Economy?, Ron Lisnet, Renee Kelly, Amber Boutiette, Tyler Delargy

The Maine Question

Innovation fuels entrepreneurship in Maine. In recent years, several small business startups with novel ideas for products have created and sold them at a global scale. For more than a decade, the University of Maine Foster Center for Innovation has collaborated with students, faculty, staff, startups and established organizations, and offered courses and other resources on how to innovate. It also serves as a hub for commercializing and developing businesses from university research.

In the final episode of Season 6 of “The Maine Question,” Renee Kelly, assistant vice president of innovation and economic development at UMaine, discusses how innovation occurs, …