As used in sections 32-41g to 32-41o, inclusive:

(1) “Act” means the Technology Deployment Act of 1993;

(2) “Advanced available technology” means a technology or process that can be applied to a manufacturing operation without substantial modification;

(3) “Technology deployment” means (A) activities that assist businesses in applying advanced available technologies in their existing operations or (B) activities that assist businesses in the development and manufacture of new products derived from advanced available technologies;

(4) “Corporation” means Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated;

(5) “Eligible institution” means an institution within the Connecticut State University System which is operating a technology deployment program on July 1, 1993;

(6) “Eligible deployment research consortium” means a multitown, nonprofit coalition which is representative of the business, academic and government communities in an economically distressed area of the state which on or before July 1, 1993, is dependent upon labor intensive, less technologically advanced manufacturing;

(7) “Eligible business consortium” means a nonprofit business-led consortium organized for the purpose of technology deployment in the fields of biotechnology, ergonomics, environmental and energy technologies or educational and job training technologies;

(8) “Eligible grant recipient” means one or more state institutions of higher education or a nonprofit business-led consortium organized for the purpose of technology deployment in advanced materials, marine sciences, photonics, pharmaceutical and environmental technologies;

(9) “Small and medium-sized business” means a manufacturing business with fewer than five hundred employees.

(P.A. 93-382, S. 32, 69.)

History: P.A. 93-382 effective July 1, 1993.