A recent report released in September 2021, ‘SIGNATURE COMPANIES & TECHNOLOGIES Funded by TDB for Commercialization’, showcases 26 companies supported by the TDB for technology development and commercialisation between 1998 and 2020. The total amount of assistance provided to these 26 companies was Rs 569 Cr (around 33 percent of the total project costs) over […]
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CTIER hosted the Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policies-India, 2017
CTIER in association with the United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), and Confederation of Indian Industry recently organised a 5-day programme titled the Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policies (DEIP). The programme was conducted by distinguished faculty from UNU-MERIT and the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum and was […]
Industry-Academia Research Collaboration in India
Industry-Academia research collaborations in India are dismally low, as indicated by collaboration output statistics. Collaboration in patenting is 0.4% of the total volume of patents in India while percentage of collaboration in publishing activity lies at 0.56% in 2014-15.1 A potential reason for this disconnect could be the difference in underlying drivers of research and innovation […]