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With its terrain, tough climate and remoteness, Alaska has its challenges.
In certain fields, like energy, the state has become a kind of incubator for new technologies as these challenges become opportunities.
For project developers, particularly Alaskans among them, the holy grail is how to take things invented here and market them elsewhere. There are examples of this, but for most success has been elusive.
But if we crack that nut, does this drive more Alaska-born technology? How do we make Alaska firms into industry leaders?
Now there might be a roadmap: the University of Alaska Anchorage has signed on to become the 13th U.S. university - and just the fourth state - to establish to establish a Global Entrepreneur in Residence program.
This will bring an experienced entrepreneur, a foreign-bom one, to the UAA campus to mentor students and Alaskans interesting in marketing their solutions to problems.
The university will be in distinguished company as the program is up and running at 13 universities in four states as Alaska joins Colorado. Massachusetts and New York.
University of Colorado in Boulder has three entrepreneurs in residence in its program says Gianna Foltz, coordinator of UAA's project.
Besides UAA, Alaska Pacific University is engage in the program...