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Governor Deval Patrick gets an incubator demo

"Companies headquartered at the Cambridge Innovation Center, a rental office facility where scores of Boston-area entrepreneurs have gotten their ideas off the ground, played host to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick this afternoon. Patrick and other officials—including Massachusetts Life Sciences Center president Susan Windham-Bannister and Greg Bialicki, Patrick’s choice to replace outgoing Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Daniel O’Connell—spent about 20 minutes in a closed roundtable discussion with company leaders at 1:00 p.m., then circulated among the small (some of them really small) companies contributing to the startup brew at the CIC building, a Kendall Square landmark at One Broadway." -- Wade Roush, "Governor Patrick Tours Cambridge Innovation Center," Xconomy Boston, 30Jan09.

Thanks to Cambridge Innovation Center CEO Tim Rowe for inviting us to the demo--an for insisting that the Governor try lifting the bassinet. Never miss an opportunity for design feedback! It was a pleasure to meet the Governor and discuss international development. After graduating Harvard in 1978, Governor Patrick lived and worked in Africa for a year, most of that time on a United Nations youth training project in the Darfur region of Sudan. As a result, he's already familiar with the challenge of providing poor communities with products and services designed to meet their needs. The demo was also an opportunity to meet Massachusetts Life Sciences Center president Susan Windham-Bannister.

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