Editor’s Note

The SSTI Weekly Digest has typically focused on state and federal activities in technology-based economic development. This special issue of the Digest, however, focuses on the important role that foundations can play in technology-based economic development by:

• Examining opportunities presented by foundations’ use of “program-related investments,”
• Suggesting resources for identifying foundations that may be effective S&T
  
  partners,
• Providing an example of foundations’ activities in one sector – the
  
  environment, and
• Announcing a funding opportunity currently available from one foundation.