Green Business Development

EOEA believes that it is critical to develop innovative environmental technologies that will provide cost effective, technology-based solutions to environmental problems in the Commonwealth. These technologies can be in the early stages of development or commercial technologies ready to expand their markets.

EOEA can assist technology developers and encourage the use of innovative technology by:

• Identifying and removing unnecessary and financially burdensome regulatory or policy barriers,
• Providing contacts and information to identify environmental permits needed to use the technology,
• Identifying potential users of the technology and low-cost opportunities to introduce the technology to these target markets,
• Locating partners to provide demonstration sites (particularly at state-owned facilities),
• Connecting companies to potential funding sources that can help them further develop or demonstrate products,
• Working with other states through an interstate technology reciprocity partnership to eliminate unnecessary duplication of technology testing and demonstration, saving time and money and
• Providing documents from the Strategic Envirotechnology (STEP) program, a collaborative partnership with the University of Massachusetts and the EOEA that provide technology data and information.

For more information, please contact Linda Benevides at (617) 626-1197
linda.benevides@state.ma.us