The Eureka! Ranch team has been named America’s #1 innovation team by Inc. Magazine, CIO Magazine and A&E Top 10. They’ve created and research quantified more than 25,000 innovations for companies such as: Nike, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi-Cola, Hewlett-Packard, Schlumberger and over one thousand small and mid sized companies.

The University of Maine Foster Center for Student Innovation specializes in turning the “art of innovation” into an engineering science. Innovation Engineering is offered as an undergraduate minor and graduate school certificate. The program is grounded in data based analysis of the successes and failures of 4,000 innovations & 6,000 innovation teams.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) works with small and mid-sized U.S. manufacturers to help them create and retain jobs, increase profits, and save time and money. The nationwide network provides a variety of services, from innovation strategies to process improvements to green manufacturing. MEP also works with partners at the state and federal levels on programs that put manufacturers in position to develop new customers, expand into new markets and create new products.