Business Development Opportunities
The Energy Solutions and Applications Center (Center), administered by CCAT with support from the State of Connecticut, provides technical assistance to Connecticut based small and medium sized manufacturers to facilitate the use of advanced distributed energy technologies. CCAT provides an unbiased technical and economic analysis and guidance for turnkey development that has the potential to reduce energy costs, increase energy reliability, and improve environmental performance.
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Innovation (MSCI) can assist businesses by conducting manufacturing supply chain assessment, alignment, and development activities, providing grants to Connecticut small and medium-sized manufacturers for continuous improvement projects, developing manufacturing curriculum for incumbent workers and articulating students, performing Manufacturing Business Assessments (Operating Efficiency, Lean Maturity, Technology Evaluation, and Market Evaluation), creating and operate the Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC), assessing Connecticut need for entry and advanced level manufacturing jobs.
The Small Business Incubator Program (SBIP), administered by CCAT with support from the State of Connecticut, provides grant money directly to start-up companies housed in incubator facilities for the purpose of easing the inherently high financial burden of growing a high technology based business in today's economic climate. CCAT and DECD will consider all appropriate applications for funding. Potential uses of this funding include, but are not limited to business plan preparation, financial counseling, management counseling, market analysis, marketing, prototype development, and specialized equipment.
Connecticut Economic Resource Center (CERC)
Connecticut's Business Response Center (BRC) makes it easy for you to handle everything you need to know about doing business in Connecticut. You can contact the Business Response Center over the phone by calling 1-800-392-2122 or by sending the Business Response Center an email. A Business Response Center specialist will use his or her own knowledge and our extensive databases to address your questions clearly and quickly. For a detailed list of programs in Connecticut, search the online database, ProgramFinder.
CERC ProgramFinder is Connecticut's comprehensive database of business programs and services. ProgramFinder contains information from both the public and private sectors, as well as from federal, state and local levels.
