CONNECTICUT STATUTES AND CODES
Sec. 32-40b. State funding for advanced technology centers; considerations in approval process by Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated.
Sec. 32-40b. State funding for advanced technology centers; considerations
in approval process by Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated. In approving the
application of an advanced technology center, as defined in section 32-34, for state
funding, Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated, shall assess scientific, economic, management and financial factors, including, but not limited to the following:
(1) The likelihood that the research proposal will result in fundamental technological advances transferable to commercial application and the means that the center proposes to make these transfers;
(2) The potential of the research proposal to stimulate technological advances in
existing businesses, new business creation and long-term job growth in Connecticut;
(3) Evidence of significant financial commitment by academic and industrial participants and the likelihood that the center will become self-sufficient by the end of the
state's financial commitment period;
(4) Evidence that the state will receive a financial return commensurate with its
investment in the center;
(5) The level of representation by all financial participants in the center's proposed
management structure;
(6) The planned involvement of small businesses and academic institutions in the
center's activities;
(7) The center's plan to involve minority students and minority-owned businesses
in its activities; and
(8) The adequacy of the center's proposed mechanisms for evaluating its progress.
(P.A. 91-388, S. 3, 7.)
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