This past weekend, March 12-14, 2021, NEMIC hosted our first virtual COVID-19 Innovation Response Hackathon. Devised to solve the challenges created by the COVID-19 Pandemic to best prepare Rhode Island and our country for the next pandemic or healthcare crisis.

This past weekend, March 12-14, 2021, NEMIC hosted our first virtual COVID-19 Innovation Response Hackathon. Devised to solve the challenges created by the COVID-19 Pandemic to best prepare Rhode Island and our country for the next pandemic or healthcare crisis.

a blog post by Managing Partner, Aidan Petrie

In the years that I have taught innovation and worked with many hundreds of companies, big and small, we hear over and over again that we have to go in search of problems to solve as a route to innovation.

After working for a large company for more than a decade, Dom Messerli was on his own for the first time in 2016.

He’d just launched a medical-technology startup out of his Bristol home specializing in spinal implants. A lot of work remained between the implant concept and the market, including clearing regulatory hurdles, and Messerli felt isolated.

“I was struggling, because I didn’t know anyone in the field,” he said. “I felt like I was this lonely guy in the medtech industry, and I just didn’t feel that there was anyone … who was doing the same thing.”

Meet NEMIC Fellow Startup, U-CHU through 5 questions with Co-Founder & COO, Noah Hill. U-CHU is developing an integrated oral pH monitoring system to prevent tooth decay and oral health problems and is part of a NEMIC Individualized Program.

Our Managing Partners, Aidan Petrie and Lydia Shin Schroter linked up in 2017 when they found that their backgrounds and specialties in the Med Tech field fit like puzzle pieces.

Thursday, April 18, 2019 – A Korean delegation from our global partner, Chungnam National University and the Chungnam National University Hospital visited Rhode Island on their tour of well know innovation hubs in the United States. Their goal was to learn about Rhode Island’s thriving MedTech ecosystem and how they can partner with organization, universities, and government entities in the state.

We can count on Bisnow to shine a light on great things happening in Rhode Island. Last year, the group’s “New England Presents” series included a panel called “Investing in Rhode Island.” This year, Bisnow hosted “Providence State of the Market,” which brought together an incredible mix of representatives from the public and private sectors for two panels that talked about many aspects of Rhode Island’s economic turnaround.

Oct 26th, 2018: Come join us for a free workshop where NEMIC Co-founder Aidan Petrie will talk about the importance of innovation to the industry as a whole, different technologies that are driving innovation, human centered design, and cover the components that make innovation fundable from an investors perspective.

Presented in partnership with Advance CTR.

By Alex Lash - Septemebr 19th, 2018

Xconomy Boston — [Updated 9/19/18, 3:40 p.m. See below.]Rhode Island, and especially its capital city, have many pieces in place to help a tech-savvy cluster take off: a revitalized downtown with exquisite architecture, thriving food and arts scenes, and a welter of academic centers, including the top-notch Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and the University of Rhode Island. The centerpiece is a swath of reclaimed downtown land where a freeway once ran, now dedicated to health organizations and innovation.