154.12 -277 Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation -- Executive director -- Duties of office -- Inclusion of Commission on Small Business Innovation and Advocacy. (1) There is created in the Cabinet for Economic Development the Office of Entreprene urship and Innovation. The office shall be headed by an executive director appointed by the secretary pursuant to KRS 154.10 -050. The office shall be responsible for various forms of entrepreneurship and innovation assistance, including but not limited to providing customer service and project management with small and minority businesses, assisting export development, administering the innovation assistance set forth in KRS 154.12 -278, introducing entrepreneurs to individual investors and to investment cap ital firms interested in start -up and early - stage financing, and collecting, summarizing, and disseminating information helpful to businesses, including information on market research, federal, state, and local minority business programs, government procur ement opportunities, and the availability of managerial assistance. (2) The office shall include the Commission on Small Business Innovation and Advocacy established in KRS rograms, government procur ement opportunities, and the availability of managerial assistance. (2) The office shall include the Commission on Small Business Innovation and Advocacy established in KRS 11.200. Effective: June 29, 2023 History: Amended 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 12, ef fective June 29, 2023. -- Amended 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 185, sec. 105, effective June 29, 2021. -- Created 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 37, sec. 7, effective July 14, 2018.
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