If a University Can Be a Business, Can a Business Be a School?

Added bonus-my manifesto on worker-in-residence zoning!

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I have worked in my family business, Andersen Design, since before entering Kindergarten. the age at which Maine State Inc wants to start training the workforce for its new industrial corporation, The Maine Space Corporation.

Andersen Design is a design and production enterprise that has been teaching STEAM skills on the job since 1952. As a small enterprise my experience of Maine economic development is “Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink!”, in no small part because our preferred “economy of scale” is small scale.

In contemporary usage “economy of scale” signifies ”economy of large scale”, as if there is no such thing as “economy of small scale” or “economy of median scale”.

In my last post, I was delighted that someone recognized the value of Andersen Design’s core assets, and wanted to put them back into production, but soon realized that I could not go forward with moving hundreds of original molds to a distant state and putting them…