Tag: Innovation
Bryant’s Innovation Center is transforming teaching, learning
INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | EDUCATION
Bryant University’s visually striking Academic Innovation Center, which opened September 2016, is designed to shun passive learning and lengthy lecturing. Instead,...
Envision’s fast-acting disaster-plan program keeps companies humming
INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | IT SERVICES
Sometimes innovation comes at the behest of outside forces.
Take, for instance, Envision Technology Advisors’ latest offering: the Business Continuity Solutions...
Public investment in basic research yields major victories
Dr. Anne S. De Groot is a major success story, not just in Rhode Island but across the globe.
She bridges the research and clinical...
Brown receives $9.2M to create bioluminescent neuroscience tools
PROVIDENCE - Brown University has been awarded up to $9.2 million in funding over five years from the National Science Foundation to lead a...
Study: Rhode Island ranks No. 19 in nation for data innovation
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island ranked No. 19 in the nation in a “Best States for Data Innovation” study conducted by The Center for Data...
Urgency for innovation should inform economic development
Despite having an unemployment rate that is lower than the national mark, Rhode Island remains a state with a problem.
Last week’s cover story documented...
Manufacturing and logistics report card doesn’t tell the whole story
While the recently released 2017 Manufacturing & Logistics Report Card for the United States gives Rhode Island a D+, it does not tell the...
Five Questions With Lizzi Ross
1. What was the catalyst behind RISD’s Design for Manufacturing Innovation certificate program launched in September 2016? This program was developed in partnership with...
First Autonomous Floating Microgrid Platform for Powering and Recharging Electric...
Newport, RI – Newport Harbor has been the site of many firsts in its long and storied history, and this June it will be...
Innovation wave not a cure-all
Innovation, everybody hopes, will rescue the world from economic stagnation. I’m not so sure.
The extent to which an innovation is significant depends on the...
















