Tag: Polaris Mep
Polaris MEP’s Manufacturing Innovation Challenge application period opens Aug. 24
PROVIDENCE – The application period for the next cohort of Polaris MEP’s Manufacturing Innovation Challenge opens Aug. 24, the nonprofit announced.
Polaris MEP will host...
In regulation, the small things add up fast
The pervasiveness of state-imposed regulations has been a topic of contention for years among the business community in Rhode Island.
“Manufacturing employers there are...
Five Questions With: Christian Cowan
With a June 15 deadline, Polaris MEP, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership for Rhode Island, is in search of technological consultants and other professionals to...
Sixteen applicants are vying for shares of $20M Rhode Island hopes...
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...
Registration open for Bryant University World Trade Day May 23
SMITHFIELD – Technology in Global Trade is the theme of World Trade Day 2018 at Bryant University’s Chafee Center for International Business in Smithfield, according...
Polaris MEP recruiting specialists for manufacturing consulting
PROVIDENCE – Polaris Manufacturing Extension Partnership is expanding its roster of professional consultants that it will connect with local manufacturers, the nonprofit organization announced...
Healthy R.I. manufacturing industry driven by military defense, textiles
Since his start as Polaris MEP center director four years ago, Christian Cowan has watched the state’s manufacturing industry blossom. So much so, he...
Polaris MEP event helps R.I. manufacturers connect, prosper
Zack Sasa and Signature Cable Inc. in Cranston have been in business for 13 years, making cables and harnesses in batches of one, 10,...
Tech fest to draw thousands of innovators, investors to Pawtucket
Pawtucket will host the Ocean Inno Tech Fest later this year, bringing innovators and investors from far and wide to the city.
“There are tech...
Robots don’t take jobs, but turn manufacturers into educators
For years, we’ve heard about the shortage of labor in advanced manufacturing, with technological skills now the must-have labor asset for any company that...


















