New Jersey § 52:9X-9.2 Findings, declarations relative to biotechnology, high technology industries

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§ 52:9X-9.2 — Findings, declarations relative to biotechnology, high technology industries

New Jersey § 52:9X-9.2

Title 52STATE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS

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N.J. Stat. Ann. § 52:9X-9.2 (2026).

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2.The Legislature finds and declares it to be the policy of this State that: a. The New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York region contains the second largest concentration of biotechnology companies in the country; and b. Nationwide, the biotechnology industry has grown from 100 companies in 1970 to over 1200 companies today, employing approximately 140,000 people across the country. Biotechnology industry sales are expected to reach $50 billion by the year 2000; and c. The continued growth of New Jersey's biotechnology and other high technology industries is integral to the creation of high-skill jobs and the growth of the State's economy in the 1990's and on into the 21st century; and d. The promotion of New Jersey's high technology industry, including its biotechnology industry, and the

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2. The Legislature finds and declares it to be the policy of this State that: a. The New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York region contains the second largest concentration of biotechnology companies in the country; and b. Nationwide, the biotechnology industry has grown from 100 companies in 1970 to over 1200 companies today, employing approximately 140,000 people across the country. Biotechnology industry sales are expected to reach $50 billion by the year 2000; and c. The continued growth of New Jersey's biotechnology and other high technology industries is integral to the creation of high-skill jobs and the growth of the State's economy in the 1990's and on into the 21st century; and d. The promotion of New Jersey's high technology industry, including its biotechnology industry, and the attraction to the State of biotechnology and other high technology companies is vital and necessary to the people of this State. Therefore, it is necessary and important to the economy of this State that a program be established to promote biotechnology and other high technology industries in New Jersey and to attract biotechnology and other high technology companies to the State. L.1995,c.277,s.2.