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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Visits NanoMech an EPA SBIR Award Recipient
Secretary Timothy Geithner visited NanoMech last March to demonstrate how innovative research can spur economic growth and high-wage jobs. In conjunction with the visit, the Treasury Department released a report detailing the economic benefits of the Research and Experimentation (R&E) tax credit and the President's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget proposal to expand and simplify the credit and make it permanent.
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EPA Awards $2 Million to Small Businesses to Develop Ground-Breaking Technologies
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $2.38 million to 34 small businesses to develop innovative, sustainable technologies to protect human health and the environment.
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Science Works Podcast: 
EPA Funds Development of Laser-Based Carbon Dioxide Sensor
Listen to the third podcast in our Science Works series, and learn how a small business called Bridger Photonics is developing a handheld sensor for the remote detection of carbon dioxide.
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Science Works Podcast: Small Business Grows Green Alternative to Styrofoam
Listen to the second podcast in our Science Works series, and learn how a small business called Ecovative Design is developing an environmentally-friendly foam that could replace polystyrene in packaging and construction materials.
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Science Works Podcast: SBIR Overview
The EPA Small Business Innovation Research program provides funding to small businesses to develop new environmental technologies.
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Innova Tech, Inc. in Morrisville, NC wins EPA research contract
(Atlanta, Ga. February 5, 2009) - Innova Tech, Inc. in Morrisville, NC has been awarded $70,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a new cost-effective emissions control system for restaurant underfired charbroilers. Some of the anticipated benefits of the system are: ease of maintenance/service, increased environmental compliance, reduced operational costs, elimination of contaminated media disposal in landfills and longer service life.
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