HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

188

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM TO COMPLETE AN ASSESSMENT ON THE USE OF BUSINESS INCUBATOR PROGRAMS FOR NON-HIGH TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES AND TO DRAFT ANY APPROPRIATE PROPOSED LEGISLATION.

 

WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that business incubators have proven advantageous to start up high-technology companies; and

WHEREAS, the Maui Research and Technology Center and the Manoa Innovation Center in Hawaii, strive to provide support services and low-cost space to fledgling companies during their high-risk early stages of development and eventually "graduating" successful companies; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that this is a formula that works in many other states in the high-technology field and other areas; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that it is the goal of the State to promote non-high technology business companies to at least the same degree that the State has been promoting high-technology companies; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that in order to aide fledgling non-high technology companies in the State of Hawaii, it is imperative that some type of business incubator program similar to the business incubator program currently in place for high-technology companies be instituted for non-high technology companies; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature acknowledges that appropriate business incubator programs may be different for different types of businesses; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature acknowledges that an assessment needs to be completed creating and evaluating the different types of business incubator programs that can be used for different types of businesses; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-Second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2004, the Senate concurring, that the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism is requested to complete an assessment on the creation and use of appropriate business incubator programs for various types of non-high technology companies that exist in the State; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the department shall report findings, recommendations, and any appropriate proposed legislation to the Legislature twenty days before the start of the Regular Session of 2005; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, the Speaker of the House, and the President of the Senate.

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Business incubator program; non-high technology companies