KRS 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

Entrepreneurship 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 11.200.