MBSTL Business - Growing a Business - Business Innovation: Home

Information Portals

• Business Innovation Brief
• The Institute for Business Innovation (check out videos and resources under each tab)
• Harvard Business Review - Innovation
• Fast Company (most innovative company annual ranking)

Business Innovation Programs

• Maine Technology Institute
  MTI works with entrepreneurs, innovators, established businesses and institutions conducting research and development to FUND, CONNECT and GROW them to resources that will help them commercialize their technologies.
   
• Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership and Performance Based Training using Lean Methodologies
  Maine Manufacturer Acceleration Program -  business development program for Maine manufacturers designed to generate innovative growth through collaboration.
  Strategic Assessment and Technology Roadmapping

• Maine Food System Innovation Challenge
• Maine Center for Creativity
• Maine Center for Entrepreneurs
• Bangor Innovation Center

Innovation Engineering

• Innovation Engineering
• Innovation Engineering Institute - Eureka! Ranch
• Innovation Engineering - Foster Center for Student Innovation

Business Innovation How-to Guides and Webinars

A framework for Strategic Innovation (InnovationPoint LLC)

Stanford Innovation & Entrepreneurship Webinars

• Design Thinking vs. The Lean Startup
• Business Model Transformation and Innovation
• Stories from the Trenches: How Real People Use Empathy and Prototyping to Drive Business Results
• Analogous Inspiration: How To Get Great Ideas from the Most Unlikely Places
• How to Make Innovation a Reality in Your Work
• Business Models for Entrepreneurs and Innovators

Harvard Business Review Articles/Webinar

• You Need an Innovation Strategy
• The Discipline of Innovation
• Disruptive Innovation Explained

Patent & Trademark Resource Center - Fogler Library

SCORE Webinars on Intellectual Property

• Intellectual Property 101: What You Need to Know for Starting and Growing a Business
• Protect Your Intellectual Property with Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights (Course On Demand)
• Protect Your Intellectual Property with Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights (Course On Demand)

Contact Us

Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469
fogler.mbstl@maine.edu
Reference Desk: 207-581-1673