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Volume 1, Issue 10
Aug. 10, 2012
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MTI Workshop
Government Contracting Training

MTI workshop set for Caribou    

 

   CARIBOU - Aroostook companies interested in growing and commercializing their technologies are invited to attend an upcoming workshop to learn more about the funding and resources available to them to bring technologies to market.

   The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) is holding statewide sessions and one, being held in partnership with the Northern Maine Development Commission, is scheduled for the Caribou Inn and Convention Center Sept. 20 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

   Workshops will include information on funding and resources through:

  • MTI's Business Innovation Program for funding from $5,000 to $500,000 for business planning, market research, intellectual property filing, prototype development or later-stage research and development activities for technology-based business ventures.
  • Federal Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Research grants, which is a $2.5 billion federal funding program.

   There will also be information on the Innovation Engineering program at the University of Maine and opportunities for research and development with U.M.

   "Northern Maine Development Commission has a particular interest in providing our business community with access to programs and services that could have meaningful value to a company's bottom line and this workshop certainly meets that objective," said Alain Ouellette, NMDC planning and development division director.

   To register for the upcoming workshop, visit the MTI website at www.mainetechnology.org and refer to the calendar section or contact Linda Adams, program assistant at  ladams@mainetechnology.org
or call (207) 588-1015. Reservations are strongly encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome, space permitting. Lunch will be provided.

   The Maine Technology Institute is an industry-led, publicly-funded, nonprofit corporation that offers early-stage capital and commercialization assistance in the form of competitive grants, loans and equity investment for the research, development and application of technologies that create new products, processes and services, generating high-quality jobs across Maine.
On the road:
Executive Board of Directors
meets in Littleton

NMDC Littleton Meeting
Members of the Northern Maine Development Commission's Executive Board of Directors gathered at the Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Aug. 9. Meeting details will be in next Friday's newsletter.

Market research for government contracting training available for

Aroostook and Washington entrepreneurs

 

   The Northern Maine Development Commission, the Sunrise County Economic Council and the Maine Procurement Technical Assistance Center, with support from the Small Business Administration and the Maine Small business Development Center, will present a workshop on market research for government contracting for Aroostook and Washington County area entrepreneurs.

   The workshop will be offered free of charge Wednesday, Aug. 29 from 9 to 11 a.m.

   The training session will help companies:

 

  • Identify which federal agencies purchase your product or service
  • Who currently supplies that product or service
  • How much is purchased and how frequently
  • Learn about tools to assist in doing competitive research

   The workshop will be offered in Caribou and simulcast via video conference to locations in Fort Kent, Houlton, Calais and Machias. This is a two-way video conference allowing participants to interact live with the presenter.

   Washington County Community College will host the Calais participants. In Machias the location is the Sunrise County Economic Council office. Attendees in The County can go to the NMDC office in Caribou or to satellite offices in Fort Kent and Houlton.

   Pre-registration is recommended by contacting Mary Dahlgren at 1-800-427-8736 or by email at mdahlgren@nmdc.org.

   The workshop will be facilitated by David Spooner. Spooner has been an adjunct professor at Husson University's School of Business since 2000. He has worked in economic development at NMDC for 14 years, 11 of those years were with the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and Aroostook County Tourism. The last three years have been in the Maine PTAC assisting businesses in a wide range of business activities.

   Spooner can be reached at (207) 498-8736 or by email at dspooner@nmdc.org.

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