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In 1999, Govornor George E. Pataki signed into law the Jobs 2000 Act, which established the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR). This new agency is charged with growing New York State's leadership position in high-technology research and economic development. A central element of NYSTAR's mission is the recognition of New York's world-class public and private research universities and academic centers can be powerful economic development engines.

NYSTAR will encourage and expand high-technology academic research and economic development in New York by creating world-class academic research centers and enhancing the high-tech research activites of the State's existing research centers. The agency will also attract the best and brightest faculty to New York's research universities and undertake new programs to promote the rapid transfer of high-tech onnovations from the research lab to the marketplace.

Through these new programs and strategic initiataves, NYSTAR will increase university-business partnerships that ultimately lead to the development and commercialization of the most economically promising technologies of tomorrow. From the commercilialization of these new technologies will come the creation of new companies and most importantly, a new source of high-quality, high-value jobs.

NYSTAR is also responsible for developing and overseeing the state's existing 15 Centers for Advanced Technology (CATs) and 10 Regional Technology Development Centers (RTDCs).