Teague Biotechnology Center, Fairfield

Original focus: Biotechnology and Information Technology

The skinny: Built new 14,000 square-foot, $4.5 million center. (Town took out a $2 million bond for half that.) Has a few doctors and a hospital using space.

DECD $ since 2001: $1,806,791

New jobs created: 0

Spun-off businesses: 0

Staff: 1/2-time executive director

“It takes seven years to develop a product in biotech. It’s going to take seven years before you can spin off anything,” said Executive Director Clyde Dyar. It’s not like software, where “it’s passé if it’s six months old.”

River Valley Technology Center, Rumford

Original focus: Precision Manufacturing and Electronics

The skinny: Spent $3.2 million rehabbing a retired paper bag mill; three floors and basement are unfinished. Eight tenants include a two-person cleaning service, the Fractionation Development Center and Career Center.

DECD $ since 2001: $1,579,029

New jobs created: 9 (another 5 retained)

Spun-off businesses: 0

Staff: 0 (River Valley Growth Council kicks in for, and shares, director and assistant)

The center had a high-energy opening in August 2004 with the governor and U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud on hand. In less than three years, that energy has petered out.

“To try to recreate some of that is really necessary,” said Executive Director Rosie Bradley.

Composite Technology Center, Sanford/Greenville

Original focus: Composite and Advanced Materials

The skinny: Greenville spent $1 million on a new facility and equipment; Sanford refitted a 20,000 square foot space. Sanford is full, with three tenants who are developing different technologies, like nanotubes, and are researching light-weight steel panel technology and new power sources. (Its had to expand into additional space.) Greenville is 60 percent-occupied by a high-end furniture maker.

DECD $ since 2001: $1,447,119

New jobs created: 17 Sanford, 5 Greenville

Spun-off businesses: 0

Staff: 1/2-time executive director

“In a small community like this, five jobs over 18 months is pretty significant,” said John Simko, Greenville’s town manager. Local duties fall to him since it’s a town-owned building. Forty to 60 jobs over 10 years “would be tremendous.”

Maine Center for Enterprise Development, Portland

Original focus: Environmental Technology

The skinny: Moved onto University of Southern Maine campus three months ago. (They use three-quarters of one floor of the Bioscience Research building.) Ten tenants are working on things like a better GPS receiver with homeland security implications, solar power and environmental sensors.

DECD $ since 2001: $1,187,045

New jobs created: 100*

Spun-off businesses: 7

Staff: 2 full-time, 2 part-time

An old study found for every $1 the state spent, client companies put $9 back into the economy.

“Eventually, we will be making our way to Lewiston-Auburn through USM,” said President John Ferland.

Target Technology Center, Orono

Original focus: Information Technology

The skinny: Inextricably linked to the University of Maine, this center operates out of a building in the Technology Park in Orono and has seven tenants doing everything from multimedia design to developing mass spectrometer components. Also has seven affiliate members (businesses who pay to use the center as a mailing address, get access to the conference room, etc.)

DECD $ since 2001: $1,058,602

New jobs created: 70*

Spun-off businesses: 3 (two of those moved into the Portland incubator)

Staff: 2 full-time, plus various MBA, grad students and interns

Target is also involved with a new innovation center on campus, where students get free space and help; if their company graduates when they do, it can move into the incubator down the street.

“By getting those students engaged in the business community in Maine,” students are more likely to stay here, Director Deb Neuman said.

Maine Aquaculture Incubators, Franklin, Walpole, Eastport

Original focus: Aquaculture and Marine Sciences

The skinny: Four tenants are spread among several spaces and tanks on 25 seaside acres bought by the University of Maine in the Down East region. They work with halibut, seaworms and urchins. This spring, one company, Great Bay Aquaculture, is bringing in 100,000 baby cod for a new nursery.

DECD $ since 2001: $995,927

New jobs created: 12

Spun-off businesses: 0

Staff: 5 full-time, 2 part-time

Director Nick Brown sees loads of job potential once businesses spin off, from the need for urchin divers to people to process and deliver fish.

“This country needs to boost its aquaculture and reduce its trade deficit, which is huge,” he said.

Loring Applied Technology Center, Limestone

Original focus: Forestry and Agriculture Technologies

The skinny: Spent a little over $1 million renovating space at the Loring Commerce Center. Houses an expanding custom wood shop, new energy group in the R&D phase and a husband-and-wife chocolate sauce startup.

DECD $ since 2001: $813,988

New jobs created: 16

Spun-off businesses: Main Street Flour Co., employs between 6 and 12 people turning grain into flour and mixes

Staff: 0 (Loring Development Authority kicks in for a director and assistant)

“I’m talking to a company now that has nothing to do with forestry or agriculture, but it’s jobs and it’s a new business,” said Executive Director Ed Nickerson.

* Includes jobs created by tenants, spin-off companies and incubator affiliates