(1) The fund may utilize the money held in the product development program account to provide financial aid to applicants when financial aid would not otherwise be available on reasonable terms from other sources and shall enter into venture agreements whereby the fund will obtain royalties, rights, or other benefits from or in a targeted invention, product, device, or technique; a related or derivative invention, product, device, or technique; or other applicant revenues, which royalties, rights, and other benefits are obtained in exchange for the granting of financial aid to the applicant.
  (2) Financial aid provided from the product development program account shall be for the purpose of financing any new process, technique, product, or device which is or may be exploitable commercially, which has advanced beyond the theoretical state, and which is capable of being or has been reduced to practice without regard to whether a patent has or could be granted.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 125.2084

  • Fund: means the Michigan strategic fund created under section 5, except where the context clearly requires a different definition. See Michigan Laws 125.2004
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  (3) Financial aid provided and venture agreements made by the fund may be on the terms and conditions the fund, in its sole discretion, determines to be reasonable, appropriate, and consistent with the purposes and objectives of the fund and this chapter, including the requirements of section 12.
  (4) Financial aid provided and venture agreements made pursuant to this section shall be made on the condition that the benefits of increasing employment and tax revenues remain in the state.
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