Connecticut Technology Council

If you think democracy is stagnating, come to New Haven. You will find it alive and well. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. is stepping down, and thus far seven of Mr. DeStefano's fellow Democrats are seeking the party's nomination to succeed him. The number...

After nearly 10 years as president and CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council, Matthew Nemerson is pursuing a new goal: The mayor's office in New Haven. Nemerson, 57, is a former head of the chamber of commerce in New Haven and also co-founded Science...

The Connecticut Technology Council honored nine women for their leadership in science, technology and engineering at the its annual Women of Innovation awards dinner Tuesday. Yvonne Will, an associate research fellow at Pfizer, won in the research...

There's good news and bad news for Connecticut in the Pentagon's spending strategy for the next several years, and that reflects what's happening in the state's economy overall. The bad news is that defense spending in the state will decline by about 10...

We've listened to endless blather during this campaign season about how tax cuts will create jobs. I think Bruce Carlson has a better idea. He's finding potentially viable products developed by private industries in the state that for some reason have not...

Did anyone think the governor would land in China, shake some hands, talk up Connecticut's nice products, exchange gifts and come home? Not Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Midway through leading a small delegation of economic development officials to the world'...

Exactly 25 years ago, the last time a sitting Connecticut governor visited China, Anne Evans was on the trip trying to sell recycled tires through her new Hebron firm, EER Ltd. The trip with Gov. William A. O'Neill, and about 60 other people, launched...

Editor's Note: With no net job creation here in two decades, Connecticut needs jobs. Our editorial and five other views on this page offer thoughts on getting people back to work. We'd like to hear what you think is the key to creating jobs as well: Email...

The clout of Connecticut's technology sector has generally been small, like so many of its companies. Technology executives had hoped to change that impression this year by landing public support - state tax breaks, incentives and economic development...