Mid-Atlantic Region: Environmental Technology Development

Advanced Technology Program (National Institute of Standards and Technology-NIST) -- Partnership between government and private industry to accelerate the development of high-risk technologies that promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread benefits for the economy.

Environmental Technology Development & Commercialization Center (ETC2) -- Provides assistance on tapping into federal environmental technologies to increase competitiveness.

Environmental Technology Verification Program (ETV) -- U.S. EPA program created to accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies into the domestic and international marketplace. Verifies commercial-ready, private sector technologies through 12 pilot programs.

EPA Vendor and Developer Support -- EPA's searchable vendor directory with limited vendor information, created formerly as the REACH IT System to compile and share information on treatment and characterization technologies for a range of contaminant types and media.

Global Trade & Technology Network (GTN) -- U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) program to help transfer U.S. technologies and services to address global development problems. Development needs in a country are matched with U.S. firms equipped to provide the appropriate technological solutions. Registration for U.S. companies is free of charge.

Inventions and Innovation Program -- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program providing financial assistance (up to $40,000 or up to $100,000) for establishing technical performance and conducting early development of innovative ideas and inventions. Ideas that have a significant energy savings impact and future commercial market potential are targeted through a competitive solicitation process. Also offers technical guidance and commercialization support to successful applicants.

Mid-Atlantic Region Business Assistance Center -- Assists owners of small- to medium-sized businesses in complying with the confusing array of environmental requirements. Provides services in the areas of compliance assistance, small business advocacy, pollution prevention, and environmental technology development.

National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) -- U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development center that provides information on grants, fellowships, the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program, other assistance, research centers, quality assurance, and research results.

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) -- Awards grants for research and development of pollution control technologies to small high-technology firms.

STAR Grants and Cooperative Agreements -- Awards grants to universities and other not-for-profit research institutions to help forge solutions to environmental problems.

Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program -- U.S. EPA program that encourages the development and implementation of innovative treatment for hazardous waste site remediation, and monitoring and measurement.

Technology Services Programs and Services (NIST) -- Provides U.S. industry and trade, government and public, with measurements, standards, and information services that increase competitiveness and facilitate trade promoting innovation, improving quality, reducing cost, promoting the use and adoption of U.S. standards, measurement practices and technology by important trading partners, and overcoming barriers to trade.

U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) -- Focuses on the advancement of basic peer-reviewed scientific research and the implementation of cost-effective, common sense technology.

*Please see Funding Sources subpage for links to programs providing financial assistance for environmental technology development projects.

State

Delaware - District of Columbia - Maryland - Pennsylvania - Virginia - West Virginia

Delaware

Delaware Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) -- Nationwide network of not-for-profit centers that provide small- and medium-sized manufacturers with technology transfer and acquisition--assessment, problem solving, testing facilities, access to federal technologies.

Delaware State University

Delaware Technical and Community College

University of Delaware

District of Columbia

There are no web sites available at this time.

Maryland

Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH) -- Gateway to research, technical assistance, and resources for industry at the University of Maryland. Includes information on Technology Extension Service, Technology Advancement Program, Maryland Industrial Partnerships, Technology Initiatives, and Bioprocess Scale-up Facility.

Pennsylvania

Ben Franklin Technology Partners -- Statewide network that fosters innovation to stimulate Pennsylvania's economic growth and prosperity. Operating regionally with four centers strategically located throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Ben Franklin Technology Partners brings together the best of Pennsylvania's people, ideas, and technology to serve as a catalyst for advancing the state's knowledge-based economy.

Innovation Philadelphia -- Innovation Philadelphia is a public/private partnership supported by the City of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The mission is to enhance the global innovation economy of Philadelphia through technological leadership. The web site includes information on how to register your business, locate resources, commercialize technology, find funding, develop your workforce, and review initiatives.

NewPA.com -- The mission of NewPA.com is to foster opportunities for businesses and communities to succeed and thrive in a global economy. They provide financial and technical assistance opportunities and funding programs.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Technology Clearinghouse -- Pennsylvania DEP's Technology Clearinghouse provides assistance and information about research, development, funding, implementation, and marketing of innovative technologies associated with energy efficiency, pollution prevention, treatment, and remediation. Subjects include Technology Links, Technology Partnerships, Technology Database, Funding Opportunities, and Success Stories.

Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers -- The Pennsylvania SBDCs help businesses locate sources of financing for environmental technology commercialization and development, assist in the preparation of state and federal grant and loan applications, and help firms design, construct, and test products with commercial potential through the Product Development Center located at the Bucknell University SBDC. The web site provides links to the Product Development Center as well as the 16 other SBDCs located throughout the state.

Pittsburgh Technology Council -- Online source for newest information on business and technology in the Pittsburgh region.

Virginia

Manufacturing Technology Center (MTC) (southwestern Virginia) -- Nonprofit organization that assists manufacturers in southwestern Virginia to become competitive and profitable in the world market.

Virginia Applied Technology & Professional Development Center -- Provides product development, prototyping, manufacturing process improvements, and materials testing and analysis to innovative, high growth and/or technology driven businesses in Virginia.

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Innovative Technology -- Encourages participation in demonstration programs, explores opportunities to join with other states in accepting new technologies, enhances awareness of new technologies by users/regulators, connecting technology developers and entrepreneurs to support business and technical resources, and performs outreach and helps companies to showcase new environmental technologies.

Virginia Tech Office of Economic Development -- Provides assistance to early-stage, technology-based companies in southwest Virginia.

Virginia's A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership (VPMEP) -- Provides technical and business assistance to Virginia's small- and medium-sized manufacturers. Helps manufacturers on improving production technologies. Also taps expertise from national and state partners, including Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, the Manufacturing Technology Center, the Technology Applications Center, and many educational institutions.

Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology -- Helps entrepreneurs develop emerging, high technology companies with planning, marketing, financing, networking, general management assistance. Sponsored by the Center for Innovative Technology and George Mason University.

West Virginia

NASA's Independent Verification and Validation Facility -- Created by Congress in 1991, to ensure cost effectiveness and safety continue to be priorities in current and future NASA programs. Helps customers with developing software within initial cost estimates and on schedule.

The National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) -- Gateway to federal laboratory research and development. Provides education and training to private industry, provides outreach services to encourage teaming among state and local economic development groups, private industry, federal laboratories, and universities.

Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) -- Provides manufacturers access to advanced technologies and technical training to assist small- and medium-sized manufacturers to become and remain quality suppliers to the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial markets.

West Virginia Development Office Public Initiatives in Technology and Private Initiatives in Technology -- WVDO technical assistance programs that support technology transfer and development, manufacturing modernization, inter-firm collaboration, and business networks.

West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation (WVHTC) -- Assists West Virginia's information technology firms with doing business in the federal marketplace. Provides expertise in software development, systems engineering and integration, independent validation and verification, imaging technologies, and hardware sales and support.

Wood Education and Resource Center -- Provides industrial training, addresses industry problems and environmental impacts of forest products production, encourages collaboration between non-traditional partners, and serves as a hotline for information.

Non-Profit/Other

Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) -- Professional services company that provides management and technology-based solutions to clients from the private sector, and state and federal organizations. Provides unbiased evaluations, practical and demonstrated solutions, and implementation support.

CRADA International - Gateway to Technology Deployment -- Part of mission is to evaluate and promote the transfer of new and innovative technologies to the private sector and to assist economic and industrial development regionally and nationally.

EcoLinks (Eurasian-American Partnership for Environmentally Sustainable Economies) -- EcoLink's Technology Transfer program works to enhance the flow of environmental trade and investment by fostering business links and partnerships between U.S. environmental goods and service providers and businesses and municipalities in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States.

Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF) -- Promotes the development and use of innovative technology to achieve sustainable development through programs that emphasize technology innovation, information exchange, environmental management, and sustainability.

Innovation Transfer Network (ITN) -- Connects entrepreneurial faculty across 13 colleges and universities with business owners to help drive commercialization in Central Pennsylvania. The organization acts as a bridge between faculty and companies looking for an injection of expertise.

National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) -- Robert C. Byrd center is a full-service technology management organization. Created in 1989 by providing access to more than $70 billion worth of federally funded research and development. Currently the organization provides access to technology information, technology commercialization training, technology assessment, assistance in finding strategic business partners, and electronic business development.

Technology Commercialization Center, Inc. -- Helps U.S. firms improve their competitiveness by assisting them in the location, assessment, acquisition, and utilization of technologies and scientific and engineering expertise within the federal government. Offers a technology marketing service for federal, university, and corporate laboratories.