NRDC’s first outreach centre in Maha at Agharkar Research Institute Pune

The Nationwide Analysis Growth Company (NRDC) – an enterprise of DSIR, ministry of science and expertise, Authorities of India – has approached the Agharkar Analysis Institute (ARI) Pune to determine its outreach centre on the latter’s campus. An official memorandum of understanding (MoU) shall be signed between the 2 establishments on Tuesday, December 20.

In a media interplay at Patrakar bhavan, Navi peth, on Monday, NRDC chairman and managing director (CMD), commodore Amit Rastogi (retd.) mentioned, “The first goal of the outreach centre in Pune is to advertise technological innovation, mental property (IP) promotion and commercialisation of applied sciences within the area for enhancing the industrialisation and start-up ecosystem in and round Maharashtra.”

“Other than expertise switch, NRDC supplies distinctive value-added companies like scaling-up of the product; testing of the product; authentication of leads to area circumstances; enchancment of prototypes and preparation of complete know-how paperwork for the expertise growth establishments and entrepreneurs/start-ups to mature the early-stage applied sciences additional and make them funding prepared; and feasibility/detailed mission reviews,” Rastogi mentioned.

NRDC director Shekhar Mundada, who was additionally current on the media interplay, mentioned, “NRDC is a pioneer in expertise commercialisation; has the biggest repository of Indian applied sciences; has licensed socially related applied sciences to greater than 5,000 entrepreneurs and start-ups and corporates; and has filed 2,000 patents, thereby producing employment alternatives for thousands and thousands of individuals and creating an estimated wealth of about Rs4,500 crore for the nationwide financial system.”

“By our outreach centre at Pune, we will undertake the whole vary of actions associated to submitting and upkeep of patents, designs, copyrights, emblems and so on.; infringement safety; and expertise switch for innovations, processes, merchandise and applied sciences developed by inventors, academia and start-ups within the area. We will commercialise the innovations and merchandise or applied sciences assigned from the area,” Mundada mentioned.

To kickstart operations of the outreach centre and change into a ‘go to’ platform for innovators and entrepreneurs, an business interplay has been organised on December 20, 2022.