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PBN unveils 2026 Leaders & Achievers honorees

PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News has named 24 honorees for its 2026 Leaders & Achievers Awards program. The individuals chosen for this year’s program –...
Ocean state life sciences: Lilia Holt, interim president of the R.I. Life Science Hub, spearheads the organization’s transition to a stand-alone entity from within the R.I. Commerce Corp. 
PBN PHOTO/­TRACY JENKINS

Building R.I.’s life science future from the ground up

PBN Business Women Awards 2026 WOMAN TO WATCH | GOVERNMENT/QUASI-GOVERNMENT: Lilia Holt, R.I. Life Science Hub interim president, When Rhode Island set out to establish itself as...
KARL WADENSTEN, third from the left, CEO and president VIBCO Inc., speaks at the Providence Business News Workforce Development Summit on Thursday morning. Also on the first of two panels is, from left, Matthew Weldon, director of the R.I. Department of Labor and Training; Farouk Rajab, CEO and president of the Rhode Island Hospitality Association and the Rhode Island Hospitality Education Foundation; and Rosa Brito, workforce development manager for Brown University Health. PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing, moderated. PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN summit: Skills gaps, demographics challenges linger for R.I. workforce

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s labor market is stable by the numbers, with unemployment below 5% for more than four years, yet for many employers,...

Wavemaker Fellowship program accepting new round of applications

PROVIDENCE – Applications are now being accepted for the state’s Wavemaker Fellowship program, a student loan reimbursement program for graduates in certain fields that...

SBA names 2023 R.I. Small Business Week award winners

PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the 2023 Rhode Island Small Business Week Award winners Tuesday.  This year’s honorees include two regional award winners among...
SEN. WILLIAM CONLEY, pictured wearing a gray suite, was a key proponent for creating a Small Business Development Fund as part of the fiscal 2020 state budget. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

General Assembly approves its own business incentive program

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island lawmakers have inserted a new business incentive program into the state budget that would create a fund for private capital...

Commerce RI accepting applications for third round of Wavemaker Fellowship program

PROVIDENCE - The state's Wavemaker Fellowship program that provides recent graduates working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields with student loan reimbursement is...
APPLICATIONS FOR WAVEMAKER FELLOWSHIP participation are due by June 23. /COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORP.

Wavemaker Fellowship applications due by June 23

PROVIDENCE -  The deadline for the Wavemaker Fellowship program applications is June 23 the R.I. Commerce Corp. said Monday. The program provides refundable tax...
STEFAN PRYOR, the R.I. Secretary of Commerce, said, “This access to R&D capital will undoubtedly help these entrepreneurs and small businesses take great steps forward, and may just be the crucial spark in a game-changing discovery.” /PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Six R.I. companies chosen for innovation vouchers

PROVIDENCE - Six Rhode Island companies have been selected to receive innovation vouchers from Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and the R.I. Commerce Corp. in partnership...
THE RHODE ISLAND Commerce Corporation and the Rhode Island Department of Transportation announced the return of expanded ferry service between Providence and Newport / COURTESY RICC

Commerce RI, RIDOT announce return of Providence-Newport Ferry service

PROVIDENCE - The R.I. Commerce Corp. and the R.I. Department of Transportation announced Friday the return of expanded ferry service between Providence and Newport. Service will...
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