http://www.liveworkportland.org/2011/11/11/the-industrial-revolution-steve-jobs-portland-weve-got-tweakers/ <h1>Why Portland, Maine?</h1><h2>Listen to what our creative entrepreneurs have to say...</h2> Fri, 11 May 2012 12:19:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.liveworkportland.org/2011/11/11/the-industrial-revolution-steve-jobs-portland-weve-got-tweakers/comment-page-1/#comment-11421 Ashton Kutcher’s Tweet-Too-Soon and the Quality of Speed | Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:16:00 +0000 http://www.liveworkportland.org/?p=4317#comment-11421 [...] And there I had it! That was my lead, that was my angle. What I had seen at the Juice conference was that the intersection of the creative economy and the innovation economy in Maine was being powered by a larger than average concentration of “tweakers.” What I have found in Portland and now in this network of innovation clusters spreading throughout the state is that kind of engineering of the possible that powered the Industrial Revolution and could well power the Post-Industrial one. And not only that. Just as I managed to get Ashton Kutcher into the headline and the lead of this post (quite organically, I think) I managed to get Steve Jobs into the LiveWork Portland post! [...] [...] And there I had it! That was my lead, that was my angle. What I had seen at the Juice conference was that the intersection of the creative economy and the innovation economy in Maine was being powered by a larger than average concentration of “tweakers.” What I have found in Portland and now in this network of innovation clusters spreading throughout the state is that kind of engineering of the possible that powered the Industrial Revolution and could well power the Post-Industrial one. And not only that. Just as I managed to get Ashton Kutcher into the headline and the lead of this post (quite organically, I think) I managed to get Steve Jobs into the LiveWork Portland post! [...]

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