Providence-based Brown University and Rhode Island officials have launched the Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to enable collaboration among inventors and business people and help foster new companies.

Located at One Davol Square in Providence, the RI-CIE is a 5,000-square foot facility, complete with conference rooms and meeting spaces. To operate, it is receiving funding of $100,000 for the first two years from several quasi-public sources, including the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp. The intent is to create the physical space to foster networking between specialists in biotech, information technology, physical science, engineering and other disciplines from both Brown and other Rhode Island institutions.

Full Story: Brown teams with R.I. on new tech startup center Source: Mass High Tech, April 28th, 2009 Author: Marc Songini Added on May 4th, 2009 at 9:40 am, by Matt Mikula