Governor Donald L. Carcieri and the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) are proud to celebrate Rhode Island's hometown heroes — the businesses, both big and small, that drive the state’s growing innovation economy...

..."It is tremendously exciting for me to see how our efforts to promote an innovation agenda have ignited a state-wide dialogue about how best to grow a world-class innovation economy," says Kaplan. "...These companies are providing hundreds of Rhode Islanders with good jobs. Even more important is that these companies strengthen our overall ability to serve as an innovation hub for the rest of the nation."...

Stops include:

• Applied Science Associates
  Creates modeling and simulation software. Software was notably used in finding a passenger who fell off a cruise ship in Florida. Narragansett.
• Polaris
  Polaris Medical Management is a Management Service Organization (M.S.O.) formed by Rhode Island physicians to provide smaller independent physician practices with the necessary support and expertise needed to effectively operate in today's changing healthcare industry. Cranston.
• QualityMetric
  The developers of the most widely use patient-reported health outcome surveys. Pharmaceutical companies use the surveys and consulting services to evaluate new drugs and differentiate their products. Health management companies use the tools to assess medical treatments and predict future medical expenses. Lincoln.