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Silicon Valley & the Connecticut River Valley are More Similar Than You May Think It’s no accident that innovation occurs in clusters.  It wasn’t by coincidence that Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Botticelli, and Raphael happened to all make their masterworks in late medieval Florence.  The kind of novel thinking and breakthrough discoveries that are truly novel, unique, and significant are products of a functional, progressive, motivated, educated, and prioritized ecosystem in whi

EAST HARTFORD — For decades, aerospace manufacturers like Pratt & Whitney have fabricated engine parts by tooling, lathing, milling and forging. Now, they’re printing. Unlike that laser printer in your office, there is no toner, no paper and no “PC LOAD LETTER” errors. Instead of ink, these printers — called 3-D printers — use lasers to heat granules of plastic or metal to build up three-dimensional parts, layer by layer. The end product could be any solid design, however com

The following consists of excerpts from Thomas MacMillan’s chronicle of a day on the New Haven mayoral campaign trail of CTC President & CEO Matthew Nemerson that appeared in the New Haven Independent. In front of two video cameras in the backyard of his East Rock home, then on the campaign hustings, Matt Nemerson sought to single himself out as the one mayoral hopeful promising he will not raise taxes, period. Just like a manufacturer that can’t raise its prices, the city ha