She was the founding educational coordinator for New Ventures BC,[1] and the founding Academic Director of Invention to Innovation (i2I),[2] an award-winning graduate program in science & technology commercialization offered in traditional and online formats.

[3] Within Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business, she serves as Associate Vice President, Knowledge Mobilization & Innovation, providing oversight of SFU Innovates.

[4] Maine serves on the Board of Directors for the Foresight Cleantech Accelerator[5] and Innovate BC.,[6] on the Princeton University Dean for Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship Council and on the Mitacs Research Council.

Her research interests include science innovation, science & technology entrepreneurship, technology-market matching, and innovation policy.

She is the head of a Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business project to help students convert research findings into tangible products that just recently received $22.9M from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Lab to Market program.