The first BIRD workshop held Tuesday, December 3rd at the Innovate Newport began with opening remarks given by Tuni Schartner, Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Innovate Newport and Kate Grotteberg, Events, Development & Program Director of the Newport Chamber of Commerce who gave background on the Innovation Center and Avi Nevel, President & CEO of the Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative (RIIC) moderated the event and shared how the RIIC focuses on building relation

Don't Miss this Opportunity to Learn About Funding Provided by the BIRD Foundation The event is free to the public but registration is required. To register, go to this link. How does the BIRD Foundation Operate? Any pair of companies, one Israeli and one U.S.-based, may apply jointly so long as they can demonstrate the combined capabilities and infrastructure to define, develop, manufacture, sell and support an innovative product based on industrial R&D. The key criterion

Don't Miss this Opportunity to Learn About Funding Provided by the BIRD Foundation The event is free to the public but registration is required. To register, go to this link. How does the BIRD Foundation Operate? Any pair of companies, one Israeli and one U.S.-based, may apply jointly so long as they can demonstrate the combined capabilities and infrastructure to define, develop, manufacture, sell and support an innovative product based on industrial R&D. The key criterion

Doing Business in Israel – a dream coming true? After years of yearning to see Israel, my wife Judi and I finally got there in May, 2017 as a celebration of out fiftieth wedding anniversary. Visiting our wonderful Israeli friends for 10 days, we saw just about the whole country from the perspective of natives. And couldn’t wait to return. Through business connections, I was able to return to Israel in September for the Watertec 2017 conference. A month later, another trip

Three of the RIIC board members, Misha Joukowsky, Ella Hood and Avi Nevel participated in the 40 year celebration event of the BIRD Foundation event on Wednesday, June 14th. One of the Rhode Island BIRD Foundation grant success stories mentioned at the event was of SoftWheel/Crawford High Performance Composites. (Crawford is owned by Misha Joukowsky, our board member). During the event, future collaboration between the RIIC and BIRD leadership was discussed. In the last f