Ben Gurion University of The Negev and RIHub have/had a generic relationship

Partnership Ben Gurion University of The Negev
Partnership RIHub
Start Date 2019-11-00
Notes R.I. signs cooperation deal with Israeli university during Raimondo visit MOST POPULAR Never Miss A Story Subscribe to providencejournal.com OUR PICKS UPCOMING EVENTS Bed Bath & Beyond Time to Tidy Up! Sponsored by Bed Bath & Beyond See More CLOSE By Patrick Anderson Journal Staff Writer Posted Nov 25, 2019 at 1:43 PM Updated Nov 25, 2019 at 1:43 PM Gov. Gina Raimondo held more than a dozen business meetings with companies and signed a cooperation agreement with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev during her six-day trip to Israel last week. The agreement says the state and the Israeli university will encourage “co-generation of business start-ups,” develop internships, and work to create partnerships with Rhode Island colleges and universities, according to a news release from the governor’s office. In particular, Ben-Gurion University’s Advanced Technologies Park will collaborate with RI Hub, a state-grant-funded business accelerator put together by IBM, Brown University and MassChallenge within the Wexford building in Providence. RIHub, or “iHub” as it has also been called, appears to have been at least partially based on a project in Israel, according to the announcement of an “innovation campus” grant last year. “IBM is excited to create with the iHub team a best-in-class accelerator in Rhode Island. We can bring our know-how and demonstrated best practices from the successful IBM Alpha Zone accelerator in Israel, to support the creation and development of leading-edge startups,” a news release from the governor’s office last year said. On the trip to Israel that concluded Friday, Raimondo and Rhode Island Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor met with companies including Dell EMC, IBM, Tech7, Morphisec, and MDClone about opening offices or investing in some form in Rhode Island. Raimondo also took part in a “fireside chat” at Google Israel headquarters about health-care innovation. “From meetings with start-ups looking to locate in the U.S., to tours of tech incubator spaces, to an important partnership with a top research university, the connections formed last week will help cement Rhode Island’s status as a growing hub of innovation,” Raimondo said in the news release. A group affiliated with the Democratic Governors Association paid for Raimondo’s travel. The Rhode Island Commodores, a nonprofit organization that seeks to help stimulate economic enterprise, paid for Pryor’s.
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