15364.21.
The service shall do all of the following consistent with federal law and national and state policy:(a) Consult with and coordinate all state government agencies with duties pertaining to international matters, including, but not limited to, the California State World Trade Commission, the State Offices of Trade and Investment, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and the Department of Food and Agriculture, in order to implement the provisions of this article.
(b) Promote rapid global commercialization of California products and technologies by identifying and developing product and capital market linkages between California universities and colleges (including community colleges), private sector entities engaged in public/private partnerships with these universities and colleges, and their global private and public counterparts.
(c) Contribute to the development of immediate and long-term policy strategies, in close consultation with the California Council on Science and Technology, the President of the University of California, the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and the Chancellor of the California State University, with attention to stimulating California’s economy towards meeting economic adjustment needs and fulfilling California’s yet untapped potential in the six areas of economic development as follows:
(1) Employment generation.
(2) Education and human resource development.
(3) Export development.
(4) Environmental remediation and preservation.
(5) Entrepreneurship.
(6) Equal access to knowledge.
(d) Facilitate global market access for California enterprises by studying the feasibility of, and coordinating the development of, a statewide interactive electronic data base and network utilizing appropriate technologies such as CD-ROM (compact disk-read only memory) and on-line, recording global market needs and resources identified through various state and other sources, and linking these needs with the needs and capabilities of subscribing California enterprises. In studying the feasibility of, and coordinating the development of, the data base and network, the service shall work closely with the President of the University of California, the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and the Chancellor of the California State University, and with other California public and private universities and colleges, state and federal government agencies, and industry, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) The California Education Research and Federation Network headquartered at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and affiliates, including the California Internet Federation, the Federation of American Research Networks, and the National Research and Education Network.
(2) The Automated Trade Lead System project of the California State World Trade Commission, in association with the California State University at Fresno.
(3) The Pacific Rim Commercial Exchange Project at the California State University at Sacramento.
(4) The MEMEX Institute at the California State University at Chico.
(5) The California Community Colleges ED-NET system.
(e) Promote access for California enterprises in emerging growth opportunities in developed and developing economies and assist California enterprises in benefiting from the growth of free market forces in developing nations’ economies, including selected countries in Asia, Southern Africa, Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe, by doing the following:
(1) Providing assistance and information to private enterprises in these countries, and, with the approval of the United States Secretary of State, to their governments.
(2) Providing support for and assisting, to the extent practicable, in soliciting private sector or other nonstate support and in-kind contributions on behalf of select teams of academicians, technical specialists, and professionals associated with California universities and colleges (including community colleges) for purposes of conducting extended stays and providing onsite technical assistance in regions and to entities indicated in paragraph (1). The service shall select teams on the merits of their ability to contribute to fulfilling the mandate of the service as stipulated in subdivisions (b) to (h), inclusive. While it is the intent of the Legislature that the selected teams be self-funding or funded by nonstate sources to the extent possible, the service may pay for travel expenses and increases in living expenses incurred by the teams. The service may also provide members of the teams with stipends for reports to the Legislature and Governor documenting the respective teams’ contributions to fulfilling the mandate of the service.
(3) Providing technical assistance and information to California enterprises, leveraging existing public resources, and utilizing existing delivery systems, including, but not limited to, technical assistance and training networks such as the California Community Colleges Economic Development Network, among others.
(4) Identifying and acting as the intermediary between foreign entities and California-based enterprises with products and services reflecting low, intermediate, and advanced technology capabilities, including, but not limited to, the following disciplines: electronics, biosciences, environmental sciences, commodity and specialty agriculture, food processing, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, and other manufacturing sectors.
(f) Facilitate the transformation of the technological infrastructure of developing countries in order to generate demand for California exports, including California-based information services and technology-based products, among other related services and products, while meeting the needs of the peoples of developing countries in their pursuit of an improved quality of life.
(g) Coordinate and focus existing public and private entities in California towards developing technological collaborations with counterparts throughout the world, with particular attention to Europe, Japan, the newly industrialized countries of Asia, Australia and nearby nations, and Canada, in addition to developing countries, in order to facilitate the export of California-based information services and technology-based products among other related services and products.
(h) Develop immediate and long-term policy strategies regarding access to global markets for information services and technology-based products, among other related services and products, with attention to stimulating California’s economy towards meeting economic adjustment needs and fulfilling California’s yet untapped potential in the six areas of economic development specified in subdivision (c).