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LARGER SPACE: Edesia, a maker of food products for customers such as UNICEF that ship goods overseas to feed malnourished children, outgrew its original facility in Providence and made the move to the Quonset Business Park in North Kingstown in 2016, opening an 83,000-square-foot, high-tech factory. From left, Executive Director Maria Kasparian, founder and CEO Navyn Salem and HMI Controller Jorge Campos work in the factory.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

How much growth is left at Quonset?

Capital Goods 03/29/2019

Steven J. King rolls up in a company-issued sport utility vehicle to a graveled construction site in a wooded area, at the end of...

THE BUSINESS INNOVATION FACTORY 2018 Summit has sold out.

Business Innovation Factory Summit sells out yet again

Entrepreneurship 09/12/2018

PROVIDENCE – Once again, tickets to the Business Innovation Factory Summit conference have sold out, BIF announced Tuesday. The conference, which is scheduled for Sept....

INVESTED: Rhode Island Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg and Jessica David, senior vice president of strategy and community investments, have helped launch 12 Rhode Island entrepreneurs through RIF’s innovation fellowship program. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Six years in, RIF innovation fellows’ impact unclear as they fight...

Entrepreneurship 12/15/2017

Six years ago, the Rhode Island Foundation announced it was accepting applications for something called an innovation fellowship. The program, funded by local philanthropists...

WALT MOSSBERG, a veteran tech journalist, talks about the possibilities and challenges associated with ambient computing. He was one of more than 30 speakers at the Business Innovation Factory annual summit in Providence./PBN PHOTO/ELI SHERMAN

Business Innovation Factory summit draws hundreds to Providence

Economy 09/13/2017

PROVIDENCE – Walt Mossberg sees ambient computing as the next big inflection point in the digital revolution, a movement that started in the late...

SELF-AWARE: Steven Keating, one of the Business Innovation Factory's 2015 Summit speakers, takes a selfie with the crowd during his talk in September. / PBN FILE PHOTO/STEPHANIE ALVAREZ EWENS

Business Innovation Factory annual summit sells out again

Economic Activity 09/08/2017

PROVIDENCE - What do an astronaut, a three-time Super Bowl winner and the president and CEO of BakerRipley in Houston all have in common? The...

STUCK: Uber and Lyft driver Sean DeLong’s professional background in business-operations management doesn’t lend itself to highly technical jobs, but his education and experience over-qualify him for most low-wage jobs, which has made it difficult for him to find a job since being laid off in 2015. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Behind seemingly positive employment data is structural weakness that in the...

Economic Activity 07/14/2017

Sean DeLong, 42, has applied for more than 800 jobs in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts since November 2015. On average, he gets about one...

BIF receives $1M from Carnegie Corp. to reshape U.S. education system

Economy 07/06/2017

PROVIDENCE – Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic foundation, has granted the Business Innovation Factory $1 million to try and help reshape the...