The purposes of the manufacturing technology program are:
1. To create and stimulate economic opportunity by providing technical assistance to individual industry or to industrial sectors in this state.
2. To assist in the identification of opportunities for modernization and increased competitiveness of individual business or industry or industrial sectors.
3. To assist individual business and industry or industrial sectors to integrate state-of-the-art technologies and processes.
4. To provide specific programs for individual industry or industrial sectors by:
a. Developing partnerships and coordination between statewide and regional providers of services for modernization and increased competitiveness for Iowa industry.
b. Establishing an industrial contact outreach program to evaluate the need for technical services and implementing an industrial needs assessment database.
c. Collaborating with a network of specialized technology resource sites throughout the state.
5. To facilitate the transfer of university research that is available for commercial application to individual industry or industrial sectors.
6. To provide technical assistance to existing individual industry or industrial sectors or nonmanufacturing business regarding available technological and management innovations to improve products, processes, and management systems, including implementation of total quality management methods.
92 Acts, ch 1244, § 33
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