of Commerce and the Secretary of Defense shall consider the location of a university within an innovation center to be a strength for purposes of selection criteria under the Manufacturing Universities Program. (7) Minority Business Development Agency (A) In general The National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency may, acting through the Inner City Innovation Hub program, award not more than 2 grants to eligible entities located within each innovation center. (B) Amount of grant A grant awarded under subparagraph (A) may not exceed $1,500,000. (C) Authorization of appropriations There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency $27,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2030. (8) Additional regional innovations strategies grants (A) Definition of innovation center Section 4 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 3703 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (12) Innovation center has the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Innovation Centers Acceleration Act . . (B) Grants Section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 3722 ) is amended— (i) in subsection (c)— (I) in paragraph (1), by striking As part of the program and inserting the following: (A) In general As part of the program