Tag: Innovation
Get Started Rhode Island announces finalists for Oct. 4 event
PROVIDENCE – The Get Started Rhode Island pitch competition finalists have been selected, Cox Business announced Tuesday.
The event, which will be held at the...
Ocean Inno Tech Fest organizers explain last-minute event postponement
PAWTUCKET – Organizers of the Ocean Inno Tech Fest, which has been postponed until the Spring 2019, told PBN that the delay came from...
SeaAhead formed to assist ocean-related businesses
Mark Huang and his partners are betting that “blue tech,” as they call it, is the wave of the future, especially in Rhode Island.
The...
SENEDIA Defense Innovation Days set for Monday
NEWPORT – The Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance’s fifth annual Defense Innovation Days will take place on Monday through Wednesday, the alliance reiterated Friday.
This...
Design Week begins Sept. 13
PROVIDENCE – The fifth annual Design Week RI begins Sept. 13 and will run through Sept. 22. In a communique, DESIGNxRI, the sponsor of...
Brown sells Innovation District-adjacent land to Ventas
PROVIDENCE – Brown University has sold the properties at 60 Clifford St. and 216 Eddy St. to Providence Innovation District Phase II Owner, affiliated...
Pro-Change, RIQI launch weight-loss, tobacco cessation screening pilot
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Pro-Change Behavior Systems Inc. is collaborating with the Rhode Island Quality Institute using a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ grant...
Epec Engineered Technologies taking initiative on healthy practices
Healthiest Employees: 2-149 Employees | #2. Epec Engineered Technologies
CEO (or equivalent): Ed McMahon
Number of employees: 85
New Bedford’s Epec Engineered Technologies may be the...
Cooley Group turns innovative ingenuity toward wellness
Healthiest Employees: 150-499 Employees | #4. Cooley Group
CEO (or equivalent): Daniel Dwight, CEO and president
Number of employees: 205
Polymer technology and industrial fabrics manufacturer...
Rubius Therapeutics enters agreement to buy former Alexion site in Smithfield
SMITHFIELD – Rubius Therapeutics Inc., the Cambridge, Mass.-based company recently approved by the R.I. Commerce Corp. for up to $9 million in incentives to...