Workshop onCollaborative Research & Funding Opportunities

201324th-25th July 2013 @ NIMHANS Convention Centre,

Bangalore

Towards making India a hub of Knowledge and Innovation

Introduction

Collaboration has been an integral part of all major researches for a long time.

Over the years the nature of collaboration has evolved from a narrow, intra departmental collaboration effort to a massive interdisciplinary multi contextual, inter organizational and even global collaboration

Such efforts have started yielding significant ground breaking results and has helped cover complex, and convoluted areas

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0.9% of GDP is spent towards R&D by GOI

Share of Total Global R&D Spending

 Region / Country 2011 2012 2013

Americas (21) 34.8% 34.3% 33.8%

U.S. 29.6% 29.0% 28.3%

Asia (20) 34.9% 36.0% 37.1%

Japan 11.2% 11.1% 10.8%

China 12.7% 13.7% 14.7%

India 2.8% 2.8% 3.0%

Europe (34) 24.6% 24.0% 23.4%

Rest of World (36) 5.7% 5.7% 5.7%

Source: Battelle, R&D Magazine

India's Industrial R&D

Company 2010 R&D mil. U.S. $ R&D, % Revenue

Tata Motors 397.8 1.50%Prithvi Information 246.3 60.50%

Polaris Software 228.0 67.60%Bharat Heavy 176.3 2.50%

Mahindra & Mahindra 157.2 2.50%

Lupin 112.7 9.30%Infosys 112.0 1.90%

Reliance Industries 110.0 0.20%Core Projects 96.2 53.40%

Bharat Electronics 67.2 5.90%

Source: Battelle/R&D Magazine, EU Industrial R&D Scoreboard

Workshop

The Indian Technology Congress 2013 will provide a platform for Collaborative Research and Funding Opportunities to garner funding for collaborative research initiatives.

• This would be possible by providing networking opportunities with appropriate stakeholders.

The participants will get an opportunity to learn about what motivates and directs technology and innovative research into new business visions.

By being an appropriate platform to help fund collaborative research the Congress aims to encourage dynamic and innovative approach to disseminate research findings that will have a major impact on the future technologies and thereby make India a Hub of Knowledge and Innovation.

GOI proposes to raise the spend on R&D to 2%

of GDP by 2017

Topics to be covered

Agency / Department specific Funded Research opportunities

Networking Researchers / Exploring potential partnerships (Government-institute-Industry-R&D Establishments)

Setting up of Centres of Excellence in Research

Faculty / Student / Research Scholars exchange programmes

Funding for Work shop / Seminar /Symposium from India and Abroad

Commercialization of Research Results

National and International Experience on Industry-Institute-Research Collaborations

International Experience on Institute-Industry-Collaborations

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10 % - 15 % of funding on R&D is allocated to Collaborative Research projects on Public-Private model by GOI

Who should Attend? Benefits for the Participants:

Who?

• Principals• Deans• Directors• Senior Professors• Heads of the Departments of Engineering Colleges.

What?

• Participants will be acquainted with better Professional Governance and Management of R&D Projects• Participants will get knowledge about sources from where the funding is available and the formats to be used to apply for the funding• how to equip the Institution to have access to such Funding?• The workshop will also give insights to know how to collaborate with Research Organisations / Industries to enhance the Institutional

Competitiveness through R&D Projects.

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$ 40.3 billion is the

R&D spend by India in 2012

Expert Speakers from

Indian Funding Agencies such as AICTE , AR&DB, DRDO, UGC, BRNS, CSIR, DBT , DIT , DST , ICMR, ISRO, MHRD, TIFAC - CORE, International Funding Agencies, etc.

Senior / experienced Principal Investigators handling Research Projects.

Principal Investigators / Researchers from Centres of Excellence / National Labs.

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Contact Usfor more details please visit us on www.techcngress.net

Conference SecretariatIndian Technology Congress – 2013

#5, Sri Vinayaka Towers, 7th Cross, KR Colony ,

Domlur Layout, Bangalore – 560 071.

•Ph. 080 - 6559 2501TeleFax : 080 - 41 15 2496participate@techcongress.net

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