B.  Pacific International Center for High
Technology Research



 



[§304A-3101]  Pacific international center
for high technology research; establishment.  (a)  There is established, as
an educational and research institution, the Pacific international center for
high technology research.  The center shall be placed within the university for
administrative purposes, as provided for in section 26-35, but the center may
later incorporate as a nonprofit corporation if this proves desirable to
further its objectives.



(b)  The center shall assist the State's high
technology development corporation in its efforts, shall promote educational,
scientific, technological, and literary pursuits in the area of high
technology, and shall provide support for the high technology industry in Hawaii in the following manner:



(1)  By fostering scientific and technological
interchange between students and scholars of the United States and other
nations;



(2)  By encouraging, initiating, aiding, developing,
and conducting scientific investigations and research in high technology;



(3)  By encouraging and aiding in the education and
training of persons from the United States and other nations for the conduct of
such investigations, research, and study;



(4)  By assisting in the dissemination of knowledge by
establishing, aiding, and maintaining professorships or other staff positions,
fellowships, scholarships, publications, and lectures;



(5)  By other means to make the benefits of
investigations, research, and study available to the public; and



(6)  By any and all other acts reasonably designed to
further the above purposes in the interest of promoting the general welfare of
the people of the State and the mutual understanding between the United States and other nations.



(c)  The center shall seek, receive, and accept
from public and private sources, whether located within or without the United
States, grants, gifts, devises, bequests, or any other money or property, real,
personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, absolutely or in trust, to be used
in carrying out the purposes of the center. [L 2006, c 75, pt of §2]