The funding will be used to create the Quinnipiac University Community Entrepreneurship Academy and Clinic (CEAC). Building upon existing expertise in its School of Business, Quinnipiac will offer entrepreneurial skill building, guidance, and ongoing mentoring to underrepresented entrepreneurs and small business owners in the local community.

The grant also will allow the clinic to serve as the educational partner to the Connecticut Community Outreach Revitalization Program (ConnCORP), which focuses on economic development and providing opportunities to New Haven’s underserved residents. Quinnipiac’s New Entrepreneurship Academy and Clinic will offer wrap-around business accelerator resources for minority-, women- and veteran-owned small businesses working with ConnCORP. Read More

The New Haven area is one of the top metro areas in the country in terms of having the greatest density of life sciences workers and producing the highest number of that type of employees, according to a new study.

 The first-ever CBRE Life Sciences Talent report has the Boston/Cambridge market ranked first. The New Haven area is ranked 20th among 74 metro areas that were included in the report in terms of assessing life sciences labor markets.

Over the period between 2015 and 2020, the study found that New Haven gained a net 205 researchers and had the largest growth in the number of biological scientists in the nation. New Haven has the nation’s highest concentration of microbiologists and biological technicians, and the third-highest concentration of biochemists and biophysicists. Read More

It’s no surprise Connecticut’s rental market is competitive. But just how competitive is it?

Connecticut has the lowest rental vacancy rate of any state in the country, according to recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Just 2.1% of Connecticut’s rental housing was empty during the second quarter of the year. In other words, only about 2% of rental units are vacant and available for renters looking for a new unit.

The national average is 5.6%. Read More