Resource Links for Manufacturers
Employee Training
Bluegrass State Skills Corporation / Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development
www.thinkkentucky.com/bssc
The Bluegrass State Skills Corporation promotes and improves employment opportunities for Kentucky's residents. BSSC creates partnerships with businesses and industries through training grants and investment credits for skills training programs.
Business Expansion / Statistics
Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development
www.thinkkentucky.com
This website provides extensive information on the programs and services available to businesses including existing businesses, expanding businesses, newly locating companies, start-ups, and small and minority businesses.
Innovation / R & D
Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation (KSTC)
www.kstc.com
The Innovation Group (TIG) at the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation focuses on early stage business and technology development activities. TIG manages the Commercialization Investment Fund, a seed capital fund to fill the gap between founder’s and angel/venture capital, and the Innovation and Commercialization Center (ICC) network to help accelerate the establishment of start-up, technology-based businesses. The Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation also administers the SBIR/STTR Phase 0 grant program open to Kentucky’s small businesses, university-affiliated small businesses, and college and university faculty entrepreneurs. The program provides funds to help develop successful Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) federal grant proposals.
Quality & Environmental
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
www.asq.org
The world’s leading authority on quality since 1946. The 104,000-member professional association creates better workplaces and communities worldwide by advancing learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange to improve business results.
Registrar Accreditation Board (RAB)
www.rabnet.com
RAB, which was established in 1989 by the American Society for Quality, exists to provide accreditation and serve the conformity assessment needs of business and industry, registrars, course providers and individual auditors. RAB is governed and operated independently from ASQ.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage
A network of the national standards institutes of 148 countries, on the basis of one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system.
Technology Services & Standards
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
www.mep.nist.gov
MEP is a nationwide network of centers whose sole purpose is to provide manufacturers with the help they need to succeed. Each center works directly with area manufacturers to provide expertise and services tailored to their most critical needs, which range from process improvements and worker training to business practices and applications of information technology.
National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST)
www.nist.gov
NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration, whose mission is to develop and promote measurement, standards, and technology to enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
American National Standards Institute
www.ansi.org
A private, non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. The Institute's mission is to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life.
Institute for New Economy Technologies 
at Northern Kentucky University
www.nku.edu/~inet
iNET is a key element of the New Economy Plan for Northern Kentucky, a regional plan developed as a collaborative effort involving NKU and area business and industry leaders in response to the Kentucky Innovation Act. The Institute for New Economy Technologies (iNET) serves as a link between high-tech companies and the university’s human, physical, and academic resources. iNET focuses on providing emerging high-technology companies with qualified interns and co-ops, relationships with academic scholars, and close proximity to university research.
Trade Associations
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
www.nam.org
NAM’s mission to enhance the competitiveness of manufacturers and to improve American living standards by shaping a legislative and regulatory environment conducive to U.S. economic growth and to increase understanding among policymakers, the media and the public about the importance of manufacturing to America’s economic strength.
Kentucky Association of Manufacturers
www.kamanufacturers.com
Kentucky Association of Manufacturers
fights aggressively for the interests of Kentucky employers before the General Assembly, in the Governor's Office, state agencies and the courts. In short,
Kentucky Association of Manufacturers
is dedicated to advancing the employers' point of view on issues that affect your cost of doing business.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
www.autoalliance.org
A trade association of nine car and light truck manufacturers including BMW Group, Daimler/Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Mazada, Mitsubishi Motors, Porche, Toyota, and Volkswagen.
Civic Organizations
Kentucky Chamber of Commerce
www.kychamber.com
The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce creates and supports a competitive business climate in the Commonwealth of Kentucky through advocacy, information and customer service.
Commerce Lexington
www.lexchamber.com
Commerce Lexington Inc. is Greater Lexington’s main business organization
whose goal is to promote economic development, job creation, and overall growth
in Lexington and its neighboring communities.
Greater Louisville Inc. (GLI)
www.greaterlouisville.com
Greater Louisville Inc. is the metro chamber of commerce and economic development agency for the Louisville/Southern Indiana Metropolitan area. It is dedicated to helping transform Louisville into one of America's hot spots through a series of bold economic development initiatives.
State Agencies
Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development
www.thinkkentucky.com
This website provides extensive information on the programs and services available to businesses including existing businesses, expanding businesses, newly locating companies, start-ups, and small and minority businesses.
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