Connecticut is ready to select consultants to help it create an “innovation ecosystem,” looking both to poach ideas already implemented in New York and Massachusetts as well as inviting consultants to “choose their own adventure” in creating unique programs to be found nowhere else.
The effort comes even as the Stamford Innovation Center readied to formally launch a business incubator, with a focus on digital media startups that has drawn plaudits from the Connecticut Innovations Inc. venture capital fund and members of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration.
“I view it not as an engine of itself, but coupled to multiple (efforts),” said Eric Dale, an attorney in the Stamford office of Robinson & Cole L.L.P. who has been working to pair entrepreneurs with investors. “I’m really excited about Stamford … There are a lot of incubators popping up around the national landscape. That is something Stamford hasn’t had, there’s not really a hub … where people can collaborate.”
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