Growth center launches in Stamford

With a new Center for Growth Resources, the Business Council of Fairfield County is aligning with several groups that work with startups and providing them free office and conference space when needed.

Connecticut is in the process of creating an “innovation ecosystem” of regional networks feeding into a shared parent structure. Business Council CEO Chris Bruhl indicated the new Center for Growth Resources is already spawning additional collaboration between varying groups.

Participating organizations include the:

Ӣ Community Economic Development Fund;

Ӣ Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering;

Ӣ Connecticut Institute for the 21st Century;

Ӣ Connecticut Economic Resource Center (CERC);

Ӣ Connecticut Technology Council; and

Ӣ Connecticut Innovations and its small business innovation office.

“We have this strange geography as a state where we have three, equal-size metropolitan areas that each think they are the most important part of the state, and of course Stamford is ”“ I say that as a ”˜New Havener”™ speaking from Hartford,” said Matthew Nemerson, executive director of the Connecticut Technology Council. “In all seriousness, we have to all work together … I think having this physical nexus in Stamford for all of us will really make things a lot easier, even though its probably something we should have done decades ago.