EPO and DeitY will undertake joint activities in ICT related patent activities

European Patent Office (EPO) and Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) have agreed to undertake the following activities jointly.

1. Sharing of Best practices in ICT related patenting between Europe and India.
2. Searching ICT technologies and computer implemented inventions with Global Patent Index (GPI).
3. Sharing of Indo-European best practices, case studies and success stories related to patents in the ICT domain.
4. Global Patent Index (GPI) test access and online trading.

For details contact  :Ajai Garg , ajaik@mit.gov.in

FORESIGHT STUDY : ICT R&D TRENDS IN INDIA- MARY MATHEW, IISc

The European Commission (EC) is keen on enhancing the partnership with India in the ICT R&D domain  via the Framework Programme (FP). Several projects were funded under FP6 and again FP 7 was formulated with focused areas. Joint Working Group (JWG) also identified technology priority areas common to India and EU member states. Despite all this, doubt lingers what is a priority area for India? Identifying R&D projects of relevance to industrialized countries was relatively easier as the thrust was on State- Of- Art  (SOA) knowledge . Catching up economies like India the demand is for State- of-Market (SOM) technology and contours of SOM appear hazy.

Scenario writing, Expert opinion are some of the popular Technology  Forecasting (TF) techniques  and Delphi technique was widely used in Japan and USA. Dr Mary Mathew of IISc has taken up this study and came up with a set of expert opinion using Delphi. The process is more important than the result and I feel this process gives much better insights than typical committee meetings. This study by Dr Mary Mathews is one of the few Indian cases on Delhi and a must read for all those interested in TF.

For copy of the report, write to mmathew@mgmt.iisc.ernet.in

For tutorial on TF, download paper:  http://ssrn.com/abstract=1424885

Technologies for transfer from Media Lab Asia

Media lab Asia works with several research partners and regularly comes out with technologies for transfer. Some technologies on offer:
eGalla- Retail Management System
eDhanwantari: Hospital Management system
ganitmitra: maths preparation guide for Class XI & XII
Virtual Labs for Life Science: Life science experiments for class XI & XII.

Interested can write to Managing Director, Goswami