Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, Dec 03, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, Dec 03, 2002 |
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Industry & Economy
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IPR CSIR figures among top 50 US patent applicants Our Bureau
KOLKATA, Dec. 2 INDIA has achieved a landmark of sorts this year in terms of patents registration and application in the US for development of new technology and products. Dr R.A. Mashelkar, Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in the Union Ministry of Science & Technology, told Business Line that for the first time, 100 CSIR-piloted patents had been registered in the US within a calendar year. "The registration figure has been recorded in the first 11 months of the current calendar year, and for the first time, CSIR figured in the list of top-50 among the US patent applicants," he said. He was here to attend an `Industry-partnership meet-2002' organised by the Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute. He said the country was on its way to a leadership position in cutting-edge technologies globally. "There is a clear sign that the reverse flow in technologies has begun from India to the West. In the new IPR regime, the country will not be found lacking in the field of frontier technologies. We have been doing great research work thus far at our labs, but we had lacked the industry-institutions networking. That is happening now." He said within a fortnight, two major research breakthroughs would be announced, which had been achieved by the New Millennium Industrial Technology Leadership Initiative, undertaken just two years ago by the CSIR in cooperation with the industry. So far, CSIR has spawned 14 such projects in areas as diverse as bio-informatics, liquid flat digital display, rural electrification, development of new molecules for tuberculosis treatment or creating monomers from carbohydrates for petrochemicals feedstock, he said. Companies such as TCS, Kirloskar, SPIC and Lupin are working hand-in-hand with national scientific institutions and laboratories in field of frontier technologies on the basis of shared returns. The Centre has cleared plans to invest Rs 50 crore every year through the Tenth Plan for the initiative, which will go to the industry and the institutions for the specific R&D.
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