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ALLAN TEAR, co-founder and managing partner of Betaspring. An audit by the U.S. Treasury Department found that Betaspring misused $803,644 to fund operations from the Treasury's State Small Business Credit Initiative. / PBN FILE PHOTO/Michael Salerno

Federal audit finds Betaspring intentionally misused $804K

Entrepreneurship 09/22/2017

PROVIDENCE – A federal audit released this week claims business-accelerator and consultant Betaspring LLC intentionally misused $803,644 to fund operations in 2012. A manager of...

TECH TALK: Michael E. Katz, right, executive director of the URI Research Foundation, speaks with Andrew Grand-Pierre, licensing technology officer, URI Research Foundation. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

URI, Brown rank low in Milken’s top tech-transfer universities

Economic Activity 06/30/2017

In almost two years as associate vice president of intellectual property and economic development at the University of Rhode Island, Michael E. Katz said...

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