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research into business ventures.
And that's only the beginning, Smith said.
"Because of those two things,'' she said, "sud-
denly we've gained traction with a number of
significant players in the (bioscience) industry.''
Smith pointed to the October opening of
a genomics research center by Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Branford, bur-
nishing that community's reputation as home
to a number of bioscience firms and startups.
Durata Therapeutics moved there from New
Jersey in 2013.
Connecticut's business community likes
what it sees in Smith and what she has
accomplished in four years.
Joe Brennan, chief executive of the Con-
necticut Business & Industry Association, an
employer lobby, credits Smith with assem-
bling a group whose aim is matching employ-
ers with specific skills needs to the people
with those skills.
"She's indefatigable,'' Brennan said. "She
has a lot of energy. She's all over the state all
of the time. She's thoughtful on a wide variety
of topics and she's passionate about making
Connecticut a good place to live and work."
Brennan said CBIA wants Smith and
DECD to continue forging partnerships with
CT Inc. to promote business opportunities
that spur job creation, particularly in the
advanced manufacturing sector, where Con-
necticut aeroparts makers and other tech
firms have a foothold.
CBIA particularly likes the Malloy adminis-
tration's stated effort to focus more of the state's
corporate and small-business assistance on
employers based in Connecticut's major cities.
CBIA has launched a campaign — "CT20
by 2017'' — aimed at promoting economic-
development and business-friendly policies
that, in two years, vault Connecticut into
the ranks of the top 20 states with sterling
reputations for encouraging business.
Working together, CBIA and Smith must
persuade state policymakers to "promote pol-
icies that will improve our business climate
… and reject those that would hurt our rank-
ings,'' Brennan said. Improving the state's fiscal
policy, talent development and transportation
infrastructure are starting points, he said.
Smith says she regularly monitors several
key economic indices, including monthly job
creation and unemployment, state GDP and
new-business formations, for signs as to how
the state and U.S. economies are faring.
"Some bigger-picture things I watch like
a hawk,'' said Smith, an avid runner who logs
several miles daily. "If these numbers aren't
going in the right direction, then we're not
doing our jobs.''
"We're off to a good start,'' she said. "The
momentum is in the right direction. But we
aren't done.'' n
