I
t is my humble belief that innovation,
or rather the act of innovating,
is the life-blood of the economic development
ecosystem. It the life-blood of
any economic development ecosystem,
but perhaps much more urgently so
in Maine, where the population is far
more geographically dispersed and the
cultural encumbrances to the past are far
deeper, resulting in significant challenges
adapting to a changed world. For Maine,
with all due humility I submit, it is the
only answer.