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Innovation awards 49 results total, viewing 1 - 20 Built to innovate, BIF keeps R.I. in the conversation Oct 7, 2009 The Business Innovation Factory would appear to be a shoo-in for an innovation award. After all, innovation is, literally, its middle name. more Seeing the educational value in entrepreneurship Oct 7, 2009 The idea started out simply enough: More than three years ago, the Met Center wanted to offer a business class that lived up to the school’s mission of hands-on learning. more Using code to make asset tracking more transparent Oct 1, 2009 Rhode Island’s defense-contractor sector has helped produce a number of innovations aimed at helping the U.S. military. But only one company in the sector can say that it is helping to keep the armed services, quite literally, on track. more Discovery of a small thing yields the Next Big Thing Oct 1, 2009 In the world of molecular science, serendipity is not simple luck. more Rising tide of plastic bottles creates an opportunity Oct 1, 2009 To protect the environment and provide a top-notch product at the same time, Plasticycle Technologies LLC developed a new way to recycle beverage bottles, grinding them down into granulated flakes that compete with virgin plastic resins on the worldwide market. more City firm finds innovative use for shipping containers Oct 1, 2009 One normally envisions shipping containers, those long boxy metal crates, stacked neatly on a barge or perhaps tucked in the corner of a construction site. But Providence firm distill studio found a decisively different use for them. more IlluminOss bone repair in human trial Feb 20, 2009 IlluminOss Medical Inc.’s Photodynamic Bone Stabilization System, which uses light-sensitive glue to achieve a speedy fracture repair, has undergone its first human trial. “This case represents a major milestone for IlluminOss and patients worldwide,” said founder and CEO Robert A. Rabiner, the 2007 R.I. Innovator of the Year. more Innovation can be an everyday experience Sept 20, 2008 Innovation is often viewed as the product of a Eureka! moment, when a flash of insight solves a thorny problem. But – as is demonstrated by the winners of this year’s Rhode Island Innovation Awards – innovation can spring as much from the everyday as from the creative core. more All the info that matters, at patients’ fingertips Sept 20, 2008 Patients typically have limited access to their vital medical information, which forces them to recall information – often inaccurately – from memory when they aren’t at their primary place of care. more Fulfilling the promise of mobile technology Sept 20, 2008 Two students make last-minute plans to attend the night’s WaterFire Providence event, and want to round up a few buddies to join the fun. Using the camera in a mobile phone, they shoot a picture of a downtown coffee house and send it out to a dozen friends across the city, with a GPS tag, directions and a message instructing them where to meet at 7 p.m. more STAC charts the course to future innovation Sept 20, 2008 Since its inception in 2005, Rhode Island’s Science & Technology Advisory Council (STAC) has been working to transform the state’s economy from one born in the Industrial Age to one firmly planted in the era of computers and biotechnology. more Soda company fired student’s passion for business Sept 20, 2008 When was the last time you talked with a 17-year-old high school senior who knew the difference between revenue and profit, who could talk about the importance of margins and finding new markets for company growth? We all hit our stride in life at different times, some early, other late. Jean Merlain – high school senior at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (the Met), in Providence, and the CEO of a soda company – is on the early side. He knows what he wants. more Disney experience leads to mobile solution Sept 20, 2008 A moment of frustration at Disneyland brought Providence software developer David Berube the idea that would quickly make him the winner of the 2008 Rhode Island Innovation Awards Rising Star designation. more Employee incentives are big business for TCMPi Sept 20, 2008 Chris Crawford likes to keep a low profile. Even though his software business, founded in 2000, consistently breaks its own sales records the CEO insists that, “We like to promote the brands we represent and not us.” more She provides a voice of entrepreneurial experience Sept 20, 2008 Elizabeth Pierotti never planned to make her way through life as an inventor. In fact, she started out as a Catholic nun. But it was music – the same thing that drew her to the convent in the first place – that launched her career inventing consumer electronics. more Business plan winners named at Expo 2008 May 6, 2008 PROVIDENCE – The three winners of the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition 2008 were named at the Business Expo 2008. They will share $170,000 in cash and services. more Warwick firm develops new skin patch April 26, 2008 An early-stage medical device company focused on the multi-billion dollar market for skin patches that release prescription drugs into the body hopes to license its first product by the end of the year. more BV Tourism Council is first in nation to win WTTC’s global ‘destination award’ April 22, 2008 The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council has won the “Destination Award” for sustainable tourism from the World Travel & Tourism Council. The news came during a gala dinner at the WTTC’s 8th Global Travel & Tourism Summit in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, which was attended by BVTC Director Robert D. Billington. more Brown chemists making progress in fuel research April 19, 2008 A team of chemists at Brown University recently announced a breakthrough in the development of cheaper, more efficient hydrogen-powered fuel cells. more IlluminOss gets funding for clinical trial testing April 12, 2008 | 1 comment When Robert A. Rabiner launched IlluminOss Medical Inc. a little more than a year ago, the company’s staff consisted of himself and a few student interns from Rhode Island School of Design. more Page 1 / 3 Next > Last >>