Top Gun

Jim Damicis is founder and president of PolicyOne Research.  Jim has more than 20 years experience in economic and business development and public policy research and analysis.  With PolicyOne, Jim has worked for numerous states, regions, and communities on evaluation and strategy development for their economic development and industry support efforts.  Jim currently is responsible for evaluating all of Maine’s research and development programs for the Maine Office of Innovation and economic development programs for the Maine Department of Economic and Community development.  He was a principal investigator on an “Assessment of Maine’s Industry Clusters” in 2008.  Prior to starting his own business, Jim worked for two-and-a-half years for the Maine Science and Technology Foundation, MSTF as the Director of Research and Policy.  While at MSTF Jim was responsible for building the Foundation’s public policy research capacity with the intent of fostering the state’s technology-based economic development.