Entrepreneurs, policymakers, and innovation leaders from across Connecticut will be gathering during National Small Business Week for a one-day summit: Beyond Business As Usual 2026: Scaling Resilient Entrepreneurship, taking place on Thursday, May 7 in New Haven.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Green Bank recently announced the honorees of its annual Green Bank Awards, recognizing outstanding partners, contractors, municipalities, investors, and community organizations that helped accelerate clean energy adoption and climate solutions across the state in 2025.
Read MoreConnecticut ranked in the top 10, at number 7, in an analysis of the best states for women in 2026.
Read MoreThe newly rebranded Insurtech America Symposium will take place the weekend of April 13-14, with participants, program and panel speakers, and corporate leaders from across the nation and beyond converging on Connecticut’s Capitol City – as in Insurance Capitol.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Office of Manufacturing (OOM), part of the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), has announced a two-year $4.8 million investment from the Manufacturing Innovation Fund, in an initiative with nonprofit ReadyCT to benefit Connecticut students.
Read MoreAlthough 2025 brought challenges to the nation’s innovation landscape, UConn startup companies and entrepreneurs managed to set records and notch milestones.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Medal of Technology - Connecticut's highest honor for technological achievement in fields crucial to our state's economic competitiveness - will be awarded in 2026.
Read MoreIn Connecticut, 1 in 6 households spend more than half of their income on housing, points out Habitat for Humanity, adding that “lower income households are especially likely to have unaffordable housing costs, requiring more than 30% of their income.”
Read MoreThe Connecticut state legislature convened their 2026 session this week, and awaiting their review are the “legislative policy solutions” being advocated by the state’s largest business organization, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association.
Read MoreIn 2025, Connecticut jumped to #3 in the state rankings from #21 a year ago, the largest advancement of any state in the annual arts-vibrancy rankings..
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