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Latest News |
| 27th
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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Cambridge,Pune varsities plan to market innovation
Bangalore: Researchers turning into entrepreneurs is a
huge challenge and the scientific establishment is leaving
no stone unturned to achieve this. In a new initiative,
Cambridge University, UK, will soon collaborate with Indian
research institutions and universities in Bangalore, Hyderabad
and Pune to help build a new generation of sciencebased
entrepreneurs to help them commercialise their research
and take their science products to the marketplace.
The first lessons of the programme will begin next month
with meetings planned in Pune. Bangalore and Hyderabad.
It will focus on how to commercialize technologies and
innovations developed by science researchers in universities
and institutes. Specifically, training will be undertaken
on transforming research products into commercial products
that can sell in the market and in enabling researchers
develop a commercial, entrepreneurial outlook. A series
of ACTIV (Accelerated Commercialization of Technology
and Innovation) workshops will be organized in phase I
of this programme.
Cambridge has a long track record of building successful
technology-based businesses from the University of Cambridge
and other local research organizations and is Europes
premier high-tech cluster. Many new businesses there are
underpinned by a strong science and technology base. This
expertise, built on understanding how to commercialize
research projects, is relevant to the Indian context where
researchers, local entrepreneurs and incubation centres
face challenges.
Chris Darby, head of UK Science and Innovation Network
in India, British High Commission, said: UK and India
are natural partners, not only in the increasingly globalised
implementation of excellent research projects,but also
in ensuring that the output of those projects has a significant
societal and economic impact. Im confident that the collaboration
will make a real impact.
Dr B K Shukla of the department of science and technology
said: The workshops would develop and strengthen skills
for technology entrepreneurship among various stakeholderstechnology
managers, incubator managers especially those affiliated
to R&D institutions and scientists entrepreneurs.As
a follow-up, we plan to collaborate in the area of techno-entrepreneurship
with organisations in the UK.
Funded by the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship
Board, department of science and technology, UK science
and innovation network, the workshops are being administered
in collaboration with AcceleratorIndia, Cambridge and
the Venture Center, NCL, Pune.
TECH THIS
Cambridge and Indian institutes will build science-based
entrepreneurs who will help commercialise research Cambridge
has a long track record of building successful technology-based
businesses Workshops are to be held in preparation for
this exercise, the first of them in Pune
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