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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Jun 1, 2010 |
Giant Penguin, Cut Bank: Therriault calls the 27-foot-tall talking concrete penguin – created to celebrate Cut Bank’s dubious claim as the coldest spot in America – “the Holy Grail of Montana Curiosities.” http://matr.net/articl ... .html
"Public Invited To SBA Awards Ceremony Honoring Montana’s Top Small Businesses & Advocates,6/2, Gallatin Gateway, MT" http://matr.net/events ... =3225 --- " MEDA June Newsletter and Conference Update - Last week for registering for the 2010 MEDA Spring Conference" http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Idaho National Laboratory
"Montana's Race To The Top - The State with the Best Education Wins!"
- Dep. Secretary Poneman Announces Team led by Oak Ridge National Lab Selected to Receive up to $122 Million for Nuclear Energy Innovation Hub
“The team includes partners with world-class nuclear modeling, simulation and testing capabilities to prove and improve the models,” said INL Laboratory Director John Grossenbacher. “INL is proud to contribute to this important effort that will lead to great progress in the expansion of nuclear energy to meet the country’s energy needs.
The Best Place Project - Missoula, Montana's Five-Year Economic Development Strategy
- High School Dropouts Costly for American Economy
"The teachers didn't care, the students didn't care," White said. "Nobody cared, so why should I?"
- Race to Top Leaves Some School Reformers Weary
Peter Cunningham, spokesman for the education department, said that while his office was "stunned" at what he saw as the quick pace of legislative changes, "education reform is a journey and Race to the Top has advanced us on the journey," he said. "We have a lot further to go."
- The Key To Saving American Education
After two or three years, teachers are given lifetime tenure. In no other profession are workers so insulated from accountability.
Come Home Montana
- Installing City-Wide Fiber-Optic Networks
Don't wait to find out if Google will install broadband in your city.
MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association
- Montana Career Opportunity - Governmental Software Support Specialist - Black Mountain Software
Learn to use our specialty software products to assist and educate our local government customers.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Accounting Manager - Summit Aeronautics Group
Successful Candidate must be able to provide strong team building skills and maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Consultant Security - Northwestern Energy
Responsibilities include in-depth or extensive knowledge of security software and hardware as well as security principles and best practices.
- Missoula writer Ednor Therriault (Bob Wire) chronicles bizarre Montana
"I really came to realize as I was working on the book that this state could be five different states, there's so much character and variety out there."
Montana Business
- MEDA June Newsletter and Conference Update - Last week for registering for the 2010 MEDA Spring Conference
This is the last week for registering for the 2010 MEDA Spring Conference. By this time next week, some of us will be already driving to Miles City.
Montana Economic Development
- Virtually thriving: More artists and entrepreneurs take advantage of growing online market
Among the 400,000 sellers and artists who have more than 5.7 million items listed for sale, 750 are from Montana, of which 87 live and work in Missoula.
- Plum Creek Montana News
Calling All Excellent Teachers: New Grants for Imagination In The Classroom
- Hollywood production company looks at Montana business, Flathead Valley-based Genesis Transformation for reality show
A Montana-based company keeps gaining momentum, and it's changing lives. Now, a Hollywood production company has them in mind for a reality show.
University of Montana & Montana State University Tech Transfer
- Catering to Conventions: 'Bring it to Billings' focuses on attracting conventions
Bring it to Billings is part of a marketing effort that hopes to appeal to the most promising segments in tourism.
Bill Payne
- University of Montana's Tech Transfer Notes May 2010
Teamwork is very important to my role here on campus, as many stakeholders, including faculty, entrepreneurs, the public, students, and investors – to name a few, each play a key role in the technology transfer process.
Developing Funding Opportunities in Montana
- How Much Ownership do Angels Require?
Angels are investors, not bankers.
Funding and Building your Business
- Bill offering tax credits to boost biotech startups clears Illinois Legislature
For example, an investor who sinks $100,000 into a tech startup would receive a $25,000 credit on his or her state taxes the following year. If the credit exceeds the investor’s tax liability for that year, it can be carried over to later years.
University TechTransfer
- Three Best Ways to Expand Overseas
The challenges – both anticipated and unexpected – are enough for any small- business owner to get cold feet. To ease the process, here are three best ways to expand overseas.
Oregon Business
- University Brand “Commercialization”
For now, note that commercialization in the hands of university administrators means “put your resources into making money any way you can using IP, licenses, or start ups.”
South Dakota Economic Development
- Portland software company Tripwire says it plans an IPO
Portland-based Tripwire filed with federal regulators today to sell stock to the public, a milestone in a state where no company has held an initial public offering for more than five years.
- Budget shock in Oregon - deep education cuts are likely
But this week, Oregon fiscal analysts dropped a new bombshell on lawmakers and voters alike: Due to weak income tax collections, a fresh, $563 million hole has opened in the budget, and deep education cuts are likely.
Utah Business
- South Dakota Rural Enterprise Inc. 2009 Annual Report
The qualities of an entrepreneur include taking calculated risks and being willing to put skin in the game. By those measures of entrepreneurial spirit, South Dakota Rural Enterprise certainly earned its entrepreneurial stripes in 2009.
Education
- Letting their light shine: Orem, Utah's small Illumra makes splash with switches, sensors
"We have been watching these folks for months as they have started to get some big-time customers," said John Pilmer, chairman of the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum and president of PilmerPR. "They have been in bootstrap mode for 41/2 years, and they are starting to turn a profit."
- Winning entrepreneurs share optimistic spirit
"One of the past Entrepreneur Of The Year recipients may have put it best when he said, 'When we see ourselves headed towards a brick wall, instead of slowing down, we accelerate in order to break through the wall.' "
Community
- Leadership steps to ensure a bold new future for higher ed
My recommendation to university presidents is to devote their energies to finding and supporting the innovators within their institutions rather than exhausting themselves by fighting with those who are recalcitrant.
Connectivity & Communications
- TEN new grant opportunities
- Forum on June 3 will look into what defines downtown Great Falls, Montana
"People say things downtown are too scattered and that not enough people know what is available there," Smith said. "They also want a strong connection between downtown and the city's parks and the river."
Energy and Climate Change
- Spokane may drop free wireless Internet service
In today’s mobile-device world, the idea of a wide-area metro wireless area has largely fallen into the technology irrelevance pile.
- Solar program to pay Oregonians premium rates for power they generate
A pilot program unveiled Friday -- the first of its kind in the nation -- is designed to guarantee homeowners and businesses a long-term stream of income to cover their costs.
- Why Science Needs to Step Up Its PR Game
“They need to make people answer the questions, What’s in it for me? How does it affect my daily life? What can I do that will make a difference? Answering these questions is what’s going to start a conversation,” Bush says. “The messaging up to this point has been ‘Here are our findings. Read it and believe.’ The deniers are convincing people that the science is propaganda.”
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