The U.S. Department of Energy sponsors an innovative, cost-sharing program to promote energy efficiency, clean production, and economic competitiveness in industry. The grant program, known as NICE3 (National Industrial Competitiveness through Energy, Environment, and Economics), provides funding to state and industry partnerships for projects that develop and demonstrate advances in energy efficiency and clean production technologies. The overall goal of NICE3 is to improve industry energy efficiency, reduce industry's costs, and promote clean production. Grants support innovative technology deployment that can significantly conserve energy and energy-intensive feed stocks, reduce industrial wastes, prevent pollution, and improve industrial cost competitiveness. For more information, contact: U S. Department of Energy Office of Industrial Technologies Golden Field Office 1617 Cole Blvd., 17-3 Golden, CO 80401 303-275- 4728 http://www.oit.doe.gov/nice3 Technology Assistance The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program is a highly competitive program that reserves a specific percentage of federal research and development funding for awarding to small business and nonprofit research institution partners. Small business has long been where innovation and innovators thrive, and nonprofit research laboratories are instrumental in developing high-tech innovations. STTR combines the strengths of both entities by introducing
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