The Oklahoma Department of Commerce shall establish a program to provide product development assistance to Oklahoma manufacturing and marketing businesses. The program shall:
1. Identify, characterize and catalogue Oklahoma businesses interested in and committed to expansion by commercialization of new products utilizing their available capital, knowledge and human assets;
2. Identify new product opportunities on a worldwide basis that match the current or expanding manufacturing and marketing base of Oklahoma businesses;
3. Provide assistance to make new products available to Oklahoma businesses, which shall include assistance in forming strategic alliances, market and product analysis, business counseling and other assistance necessary to develop the products to the commercial stage; and
4. Facilitate the formation of a product development investment fund.
Added by Laws 1992, c. 246, § 4, emerg. eff. May 21, 1992.