401 Tech Bridge, a business unit of the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Foundation, has announced funding for three SME composite projects to be developed at the institution’s college of engineering....
Three Rhode Island companies will soon benefit from faculty expertise at the University of Rhode Island College of Engineering as part of the 401 Tech Bridge Materials Innovation Challenge. Canapitsit Customs and TxV Aerospace Composites, both of Bristol, and Nautilus Defense, a Pawtucket-based small business, were selected as challenge winners from applicants across the country, enabling them to leverage the...
401 Tech Bridge today announced Canapitsit Customs, Nautilus Defense and TxV Aerospace Composites as the winners of the Materials Innovation Challenge. 401 Tech Bridge will provide $105,000 ($35,000 per project) to the University of Rhode Island College of Engineering. Project funding will support collaboration with URI’s Dynamic Photomechanics Laboratory, led by Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor Arun Shukla and...
Goetz Composites, founded 45 years ago, and Flux Marine, a startup in Narragansett, are among the Rhode Island companies that have collaborated with 401 Tech Bridge to develop new products and lines of business. Goetz, in Bristol, started out making sailboats and later diversified by creating products with composite materials for a variety of industries. The company last year shared a...
The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation on Tuesday will consider $1.5 million in incentives to support plans for a new collaborative to help economic recovery and job growth next year. Called 401 Tech Bridge, the project has attracted manufacturers, entrepreneurs, academics and researchers who hope to build on the state’s strengths in textiles, advanced materials, marine products and undersea devices developed by...
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Rhode Island makers, rejoice: An economic organization targeted toward technology and advanced materials innovators is getting to work on a new, 17,000-sq.-ft. facility in Portsmouth. It's called 401 Tech Bridge, and it aims to be a "superconnector," bridging the gaps among tech startups, materials companies and government organizations....
The Boston Globe’s weekly Ocean State Innovators column features a Q&A with Rhode Island innovators who are starting new businesses and nonprofits, conducting groundbreaking research, and reshaping the state’s economy. Send tips and suggestions to reporter Edward Fitzpatrick at edward.fitzpatrick@globe.com. This week’s Ocean State Innovators conversation is with Mary Johnson, manager of 401 Tech Bridge, a newly formed economic development organization. Question: What...
401 Tech Bridge (Bristol, RI, U.S.), an economic development organization that connects manufacturers, small businesses, research and development entities, trade organizations and state and defense agencies to collaborate in the development of new advanced materials and technologies, announced on August 18 the completion of a $6 million funding round....
401 Tech Bridge, an economic development organization, announced the completion of a $6 million funding round. A recently secured $2.3 million implementation grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) rounds out the capital raise to support the launch of 401 Tech Bridge, which includes the addition of a new 17,000 square-foot Advanced Materials and Technology Center in Portsmouth, RI....
