Sixteen applicants are vying for shares of $20M Rhode Island hopes will seed a job-producing, innovation hub

Is the future of Rhode Island employment in microgreens? Or is it in super-fast, quantum computers, innovative new materials or promising cancer treatments? How does the state weed through multiple proposals for funds to help grow young companies, and identify the ones most likely to yield high-growth, high-salaried jobs that will remain in Rhode Island…