Dr. Catherine Renault is Principal and Owner, Innovation Policyworks, LLC, Brunswick, ME, an innovation strategy and evaluation firm focused on the development, measurement and practice of effective state and regional innovation-based policies and programs. Dr. Renault has twenty-seven years of experience in state technology-based economic development and evaluation. She was the Director of the Maine Office of Innovation and Science Advisor to Governor John Baldacci. Her previous state role was as Managing Director of Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology where she was responsible for entrepreneurship and access to capital policy as well as statewide technology transfer initiatives. Dr. Renault is originally from Boston and received her undergraduate degree from Harvard, her MBA from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Renault is the author of several articles in peer-reviewed journals on technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship.
