UConn Bets On Tech Transfer

New Farmington Center Key To Future Returns

Nearly 15 years after investing billions, UConn and state officials say they have the infrastructure and intellectual capacity in place to become a major player in the technology transfer scene.

Center Takes Shape

In the shadows of the UConn Health Center in Farmington, scientists, small incubator companies and commercialization executives have been quietly moving into a new 117,000-square-foot Cell and Genomic Sciences building recently opened by The University of Connecticut.

CT Paying Price In Fight Over Nuclear Waste Storage

A coalition of Connecticut business and utilities is demanding the Obama administration reverse its decision undoing three decades of planning for disposing of waste from the country’s nuclear power programs.

Making More By Selling Less

The new business model at Wesson Energy in Waterbury leaves even the employees scratching their heads.

CT Accounting Industry Sees Fundamental Shift

The slow economy and the increasingly complex task of auditing business performance are combining to send seismic ripples through the accounting industry.

Financial Literacy Course Helps Students Make Better Money Choices

Half of college undergrads have four or more credit cards, up from 43 percent in 2004 and 32 percent in 2000. According to a report published by large student loan provider Sallie Mae, the average college graduate has nearly $20,000 in debt.

Marketing Fight Likely After NewAlliance Deal

The fight to become the super regional bank of the Northeast took a major turn last week when NewAlliance Bank agreed to sell itself to New York-based First Niagara Financial, moving a relatively unknown company in this state toward the top of the food chain.

Ironing Out Details Early On Will Leave Deal Wrinkle-Free

Agreements prevent disagreements. If you are a regular reader of this column, you have likely heard this before. It’s one of my core beliefs, yet it’s amazing how many people don’t heed this advice.

Care For Machinery Must Include Humans

Are you over delegating? Is there really such a thing? Does it matter?

New Wave Rides Mobile Apps Into The Future

When New Wave Industries Inc. launched in 1999 as a technology solution provider, offering all of its services "under one roof'' meant something quite simple.

Bradley Moves Into Next Generation Of Flight

Aviation history landed Thursday at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks.

Performance Analysis Rates Charities in CT

Connecticut-based charities are performing with greater transparency and with greater attention to standards than the national average, a survey by the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance shows.

Survey Finds Americans Accept Big Government

Michael Dukakis was right: Americans don’t care about ideology. They want competence.

Subsidies For Solar: The Three Biggest Lies

When Kate Hepburn called Burt Lancaster a liar in the move Rainmaker, Lancaster said he wasn’t lying, he was “dreaming.”

Segarra Can Restore City Hall Competence

Pedro Segarra appears to have settled in as mayor of Hartford, with a careful blend of forcefulness and humility.

Stem Cell Ruling Fights Wrong War

In debates over military spending and policies, concerns are often expressed that as a nation we are too often fighting the last war, not the next war. That leads us, for example, to order jet fighters and personnel carriers that have no application in urban guerrilla warfare.