§ 209. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
have the following meaning unless otherwise specified:

1. "Office" shall mean the New York state office of science,
technology and academic research.

2. "Advisory council" shall mean the advisory council of the New York
state office of science, technology, and academic research.

3. "Executive director" shall mean the executive director of the New
York state office of science, technology, and academic research.

4. "Research development program" shall mean the program established
by section two hundred nine-p of this article to encourage and enhance
the economic development role of academic institutions in New York
state. Such program shall include, but not be limited to, the faculty
development program, the capital facilities program, the incentive
program, and the centers for advanced technology development program.

5. "Primary host institution" shall mean, in a case where two or more
institutions form a partnership or consortium of research entities, one
institution must be designated the institution through which awards
shall be administered.

6. "Life sciences" shall mean those science disciplines relating to
the study of living organisms and vital processes.

7. "Enabling sciences" shall mean those science disciplines which may
be directly applied to life science research, including but not limited
to, engineering, material science, chemistry, computer science,
electronics, physics, bioinfomatics, nanotechnologies and applications
of microelectronics and micro-electromechanical devices.

8. "Project sponsor" shall mean any public, not-for-profit private or
academic research institution or any subsidiary thereof located in the
state of New York. A project sponsor may include a not-for-profit
corporation created on behalf of a public, not-for-profit private or
academic research institution.

9. "Construction" shall mean the erection, acquisition, alteration,
reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, equipping, enlargement or
extension of a life sciences and/or enabling sciences facility,
including land acquisition and the engineering, architectural, legal,
fiscal and economic investigations, studies, surveys, designs, plans,
drawings, specifications, procedures and other actions relating to a
life science or enabling science facility.