The Third Frontier In The Midwest: An Interview With John Glazer, Director, TechGROWTH Ohio (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: Another example might be developing a prototype or, in the case of a really early stage company, protecting the intellectual property through obtaining patent assistance. So, all of those are things that are needed to take risk out of an opportunity. They require resources that often

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The Third Frontier In The Midwest: An Interview With John Glazer, Director, TechGROWTH Ohio (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold In this interview I am talking to John Glazer, director of TechGROWTH Ohio. This Athens-based, state-supported program has offered resources and funding to early stage, technologically innovative companies in the state of Ohio since 2007.

An Interview With Ankur Jain, Founder And President, Kairos Society (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Today I am talking to Ankur Jain, a 20-year-old student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and founder and president of the Kairos Society. (Kairos, in Greek, means “the right moment.”) Ankur’s vision is to shift students’ perception about the business world – to not depend on others

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An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Joe: A lot of our population in Maine is pretty concentrated. The benefit of that is you can really power networking within the state, access capital sources, which we help folks with. We’ll make introductions. We’ll do mentoring. We’ll support mentor programs. In the state of Maine,

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An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are the fees for the peer technical reviews? Joe: There is no application fee to apply to MTI. We will pay the thousands of dollars to go out and get those peer reviews done out of our budget. The internal state folks from industries and

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An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Joe: Many times when investors are approached by companies that just have too high a risk profile for them, but there may be opportunity for them to work further on their technology or grow their businesses, we’ll get leads from private sector individuals who say, “As a

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An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Joe: From time to time, the state of Maine may issue bond funds for a program that helps research institutions and companies to secure necessary R&D infrastructure and capital equipment. That program is closed right now, but we have been going through a process of awarding that

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An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Could you give me a quick overview of your funding initiatives? Joe: The core programs that I oversee are primarily direct business investments for products and  services, process innovation, and research and development.