The Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation shall administer and manage the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation as a means to increase Kentucky's capacity to become a leader state in competitive research by attracting more research funding from all sources to the Commonwealth. The Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation shall be modeled in part on the National Science Foundation and shall make its own investments in peer-reviewed science and engineering research, to accelerate the rate of research and development funds and work to increase the amount of federal and private sector funds for this work in Kentucky.
KRS 154.12-320
Created 2002, Ky. Acts ch. 230, sec. 13, effective7/15/2002.