ORONO, Maine — Maine has several advantages that could help the state develop its innovation-based economy, the head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said Wednesday morning.
Under Secretary of Commerce David Kappos spoke at the Invention to Venture conference, held at the Black Bear Inn and organized by the Target Technology Center. Roughly 120 people were in attendance, including students from the University of Maine and from the Maine Maritime Academy, faculty members, inventors, entrepreneurs and experts up and down the entrepreneurship food chain.
Kappos has a second home in the Rockport area, and said he’s been intimately familiar with Maine for about a decade.
“Mainers have a very special innovative capability that is as good or better than anywhere else I’ve been in the world,” said Kappos.
The state has a “terrific can-do attitude; people are natural problem-solvers,” said Kappos.
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