Friday, April 07, 2023
Thursday, April 06, 2023
RICH Impact report (2022)
RICH (Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad) is a Government of Telangana initiative and the Hyderabad Science & Technology Cluster under the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, RICH serves as a strategic convenor, fostering collaboration among academic & research institutions, industry, entrepreneurs, start-ups to enable transformation of scientific research into impactful solutions that generate jobs, wealth and social good. RICH works in three verticals - Food and Agriculture, Lifesciences, and Sustainability. To date, RICH have collaborated with over 250 start-ups and established a network of more than 30 R&D organisations to support start-ups. It is also part of a thriving ecosystem that includes over 75 incubators and accelerators in Telangana.
Download impact report:
https://rich.telangana.gov.in/assets/pdfs/Impact-Reports/RICHC_Impact_Report_Jan_2020-2022.pdf
Saturday, March 04, 2023
who is leading the critical technology race?
ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker: the global race for future power – can be found on ASPI’s website here.
ASPI research reveals that China has built the foundations to position itself as the world’s leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domains. China’s global lead extends to 37 out of 44 technologies that ASPI is now tracking, covering a range of crucial technology fields spanning defence, space, robotics, energy, the environment, biotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced materials and key quantum technology areas. The Critical Tech Tracker shows that, for some technologies, all of the world’s top 10 leading research institutions are based in China and are collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US). China’s technology lead is a product of deliberate design and long-term policy planning, as repeatedly outlined by Xi Jinping and his predecessors. We also see China’s efforts being bolstered through talent and knowledge import: one-fifth of its high-impact papers are being authored by researchers with postgraduate training in a Five-Eyes country.
The US comes second in the majority of the 44 technologies examined in the Critical Tech Tracker. The US currently leads in areas such as high performance computing, quantum computing and vaccines. Our dataset reveals that there’s a large gap between China and the US, as the leading two countries, and everyone else. The data then indicates a small, second-tier group of countries led by India and the UK: other countries that regularly appear in this group—in many technological fields—include South Korea, Germany, Australia, Italy, and less often, Japan.
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Macroeconomic Effects of Public R&D-IIPP
Abstract: The direct public funding of R&D investment to stimulate technological innovation has a strong theoretical case and has gained renewed attention in the recent policy debate as a way to address the long-term challenges of modern society such as pandemics, climate change, and the transition to a low-carbon economy. We estimate the dynamic macroeconomic effects of government R&D investment and we find that it is very effective in fostering the total national innovation effort, crowding in private R&D investment, and in raising aggregate output in the long run. We also find that the public stimulus goes beyond private R&D activities and involves a very strong expansion of overall economic activity since the early periods. Finally, we uncover a strong positive impact of the private sector’s anticipation of public R&D spending, which can be interpreted as a confirmation of the importance of managing expectations to reduce the uncertainty inherent to R&D activities.
Paper: De Lipsis, V., Deleidi, M., Mazzucato, M. and Agnolucci, P. (2023) Macroeconomic Effects of Public R&D. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2023-02). https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/wp2023-02.
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Thursday, February 02, 2023
Hope for Mangroves in India
The MISHTI, ‘Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes,’ comes after India joined the Mangrove Alliance for Climate launched during the 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Egypt in November 2022. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a new initiative for mangrove plantations along the coastline and on saltpan lands in her budget speech on February 1, 2023. In India, the total mangrove cover is 4,992 square kilometres, according to the 2021 Forest Survey Report (FSR). The country lost 40 per cent of its mangrove cover during the last century.
Read the manual on Mangrove Nursery.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Startup India 5 years journey
The government has come out with report card after a 5 year jouney.
Has India reached the inflection point? The billions of dollars going into startups represent large bets on distant outcomes, not value generation by way of revenues.
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Social Stock Exchange (SSE) -India
On 19 September 2022, SEBI vide a circular No. SEBI/HO/CFD/PoD-1/P/CIR/2022/120 (the Framework), issued a detailed framework prescribing the minimum requirements to be followed by an Not for Profit Organisation (NPO) that desires to be registered/listed on an SSE. The main themes of the Framework are depicted below:
- Registration of a Not for Profit Organisation (NPO)
- Disclosure to be provided by NPOs for raising funds through the issuance of Zero Coupon Zero Principal (ZCZP) Instruments
- Annual disclosures to be provided by an NPOs
- Disclosures forming part of the Annual Impact Report (AIR) submitted by Social Enterprises (SEs).
- The circular also prescribes the time limit for submission of statement of utilisation of funds by an NPO.
Monday, January 16, 2023
Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India- feedback on draft invited.
University Grants Commission (UGC) invites comments/ suggestions/ feedback on draft University Grants Commission (Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations, 2023
Deadline: January 18, 2023
Eligibility:
- If the applicant is a foreign university, it should have secured a position within the top 500 of overall / subject-wise global rankings, as decided by the Commission from time to time;
- The campus of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions may evolve their admission process and criteria to admit domestic and foreign students.
- The Foreign Higher Educational Institutions shall have the autonomy to recruit faculty and staff from India and abroad as per its recruitment norms. 6.2.It may decide the qualifications, salary structure, and other conditions of service for appointing faculty and staff. However, the FHEI shall ensure that the qualifications of the faculty appointed shall be at par with the main campus of the country of origin. 6.3.It shall ensure that the foreign faculty appointed to teach at the Indian campus shall stay at the campus in India for a reasonable period.
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Compendium of Technologies available for transfer from IIT Delhi
Some areas for Licensing
- Communication
- Environment
- Electric Vehicles
- Energy Management
- Healthcare
- Life Sciences
- Material Sciences
- Motors and Machines
- Power Generation and Disctribution
- Renewable Energy
- Smart Technologies
- Textiles
Tuesday, January 03, 2023
CII Industrial Innovation Awards 2022
Grand Award- The Most Innovative Company 2022 –Lohum made a breakthrough by launching Metelec™Lithium-ion battery recycling and extraction technology at significantly lower financial and environmental expenses.
Top Innovative Company (Large) in Manufacturing: Tata Chemicals for High dispersible silica - a patented product.
Top Innovative Company (SME) in Manufacturing: Lohum for their patented Metelec™Lithium-ion battery recycling and extraction technology.
Top Innovative Company (Large) in Service: TATA Elxsi Ltd for Future of Connected TV.
Top Innovative Company (SME) in Service: GPK Logistech Pvt Ltd for StoreMart innovation.
Undem Making biodegradable Low-Density Polythene (LDPE) using thermoplastic starch.
This is followed by IIT Madras.
Top 3 Most Innovative Institute 2022 under the category of Disruptive Innovation goes to Thiagarajar Polytechnic College, Paavai Engineering College and Kumaraguru College of Technology
Top 3 Most Innovative Institute 2022 under the category of Innovation Quotient goes to IIT Roorkee, International Institute of Information Technology and Northern India Textile Research Association.
Top 3 Most Innovative Institute 2022 under Innovation Realisation goes to IIT Madras, IIT Palakkad and Uttaranchal University
Other companies who secured position in Top Innovative companies are:
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
- Bosch Ltd f
- Uno Minda Ltd
- Nokia Solutions and Networks India Pvt Ltd
- Dr Reddy’s Laboratories
- Tata Steel Ltd
- Forbes Marshall Pvt Ltd
- Kone Elevators India
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd
- Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd
- Tata Chemicals Ltd
- Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd
- Shriram Pistons and Ring Ltd
- SEG Automotive India Pvt Ltd
- Thermax Limited
- National Engineering Industries Ltd
- Pidilite Industries Ltd
- Dalmia Cement Bharat Ltd
- Adani Defence and Aerospace
- Pricol Ltd
- Merino Industries
- Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery
- Garrett Motion Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd.
- Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd
- Nestlé India Ltd.
- Sterlite Technologies Ltd
- Fluid Controls Pvt Ltd
- Polymedicure Ltd
- Praj Industries Ltd
- Meteoric Biopharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.
- KOHINOOR ELASTICS PVT. LTD.
- MICROLIT
- VST Tillers Tractors Ltd.
- ELICO Ltd.
- MATRIX COMSEC
- Lohum
- Ramelex Pvt Ltd
- Paques Environmental Technology India Pvt. Ltd.
- SAHAJANAND TECHNOLOGIES Pvt. Ltd.
- Avantel Limited
- GLOBAL ENGINEERS LIMITED
- Accenture Solutions Private Limited
- The TATA Power Company Limited
- Tata Elxsi
- CitiusTech
- Access Healthcare
- Syngenta Biosciences
- Bigbasket
- Adani Transmission Ltd
- Mercedes Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI)
- Tsecond Generation Technology Pvt Ltd.
- IntelliSmart Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.
- Plutomen Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
- Online PSB Loans Limited
- GPK Logistech Pvt. Ltd
- Judge India Solutions
- TMS TECHNOV M SYSTEMS P LIMITED
- Ekta Telecommunication & Systems
- Revayu Systems Private Limited
- Webskitters Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
Monday, January 02, 2023
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology invites feedback on the draft amendments to the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 in relation to online gaming
With the user base of online games growing in India, need has been felt to ensure that such games be offered in conformity with Indian laws and that the users of such games be safeguarded against potential harm. Further, with a view to enable consideration of issues related to online gaming in their totality, Government of India has allocated matters related to online gaming to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
The draft amendments envisage that an online gaming intermediary shall observe the due diligence required under the rules while discharging its duties, including reasonable efforts to cause its users not to host, display, upload, publish, transmit or share an online game not in conformity with Indian law, including any law on gambling or betting. Moreover, it shall observe additional due diligence by displaying a registration mark on all online games registered by a self-regulatory body and informing its users regarding its policy related to withdrawal or refund of deposit, manner of determination and distribution of winnings, fees and other charges payable and KYC procedure for user account registration. Self-regulatory bodies will be registered with the Ministry and may register online games of such online gaming intermediaries who are its members and which meet certain criteria. Such bodies will also resolve complaints through a grievance redressal mechanism.
The draft amendments :
Saturday, December 31, 2022
A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ON ROLE OF TAX INCENTIVES IN PROMOTING R&D IN THE COUNTRY (INDIA)
This report is the outcome of the project commissioned under the National Science and Technology Management Information System (NSTMIS) scheme on International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, a DST institution located in Hyderabad. Shri K.V.S.P. Rao, ex-Scientist-G & Head-RDI Division in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is the Principal Investigator for the project and Dr Sanjay Bhardwaj, Head, Centre for Technology Acquisition and Transfer, ARCI, Hyderabad is the Co-Principal Investigator for the project.
10. Conclusions and Recommendations
10.1. Conclusions • The industrial R&D has shown significant growth over the years, Indian Industry has gained technological competence and has played a pivotal role in accruing significant economic benefits through R&D efforts. • The Industry has responded with remarkable growth rate in R&D expenditure, increased turnovers and making a niche in the Global R&D scenario. It has also provided significant benefits in terms of employment generation, better healthcare, reducing environmental pollutions, energy utilization. • Based on the data studied, it is observed that duty exemptions and weighted tax deductions over the years has helped the growth of in-house R&D units. • Many foreign companies are still interested to take the benefits of the incentives but removal of weighted tax deduction has discouraged them while taking investment decision on R&D in India. • The Joint Committee of Industry and Government of India in its report made in May 2013, recorded that the current R&D incentives, 200% Weighted Tax deductions offered by the Government of India is one of the best in the world already. The report also suggests- while retaining the current direct and indirect fiscal incentives, some rationalization for covering the entire value chain of industrial R&D and technology commercialization may be examined and simplification and rationalization processes enacted.
Schemes and programmes to enable R&D as a source of revenue generation may be announced for the benefit of the industry. Such companies create good R&D infrastructure to carry out R&D work for its translation into industrial production with innovative business models. This also helps in monetisation of the R&D efforts. • India is gradually progressing in its R&D efforts. The current incentives have helped the industry in boosting the R&D investments in the country. The R&D expenditure by companies have grown over the years, however, for the R&D to have a substantial growth, more private funding in R&D is still needed. • The R&D units have developed products and technologies for manufacture of world class products. Due to the Automobile boom since 1990s many Japanese, German, US, and British manufacturers have established their manufacturing units in India taking advantage of the highly competitive automobile component industry. Even luxury automobile manufacturing companies from Europe and USA started their units in India. To compete with them, Indian companies have also expanded their manufacturing bases and R&D units all over the country. • A similar trend was seen in pharmaceuticals including bulk drugs, intermediates and APIs. Huge investments were seen in the R&D units with an eye on export markets. USFDA approval was also given to many companies indicating their superiority and competitiveness at par with global companies. Emerging areas like biotechnology products for healthcare, industrial products and services have also sprung up in medium scale to small scale levels. MNCs have also established their manufacturing units independently and as joint ventures with Indian companies.
It is therefore time to review the policy on fiscal incentives for industrial research and development and reintroduce incentives in a selective manner especially for those sectors which are still in the growth phase. • Companies with large spends on R&D have, no doubt availed fiscal incentives and benefited the most across all the sectors. Even though small and medium companies have also availed the benefits of fiscal incentives, there are many more firms whose expenditures have not been much as their R&D budgets are quite low. The 100 larger companies have spent amount of Rs. 3685600 lakhs of which 74 companies, spending above Rs.100 Cr, have spent an aggregate of Rs.3459700 lakhs. If we take the average spending of companies incurring more than Rs.100 crores on research and development, it works out to the order of Rs.474 crores per company.
Details : KVSP RAO,
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Vaccine policy USA and India
The US is considered to be the home of the most virulent form of capitalism. This could be seen in the pride of place accorded to private sector enterprises in that country, and it is also Extract from Sunil Mani article:
The home of some of the largest and most innovative companies in a range of industries. In the area of medical R&D in general and in the development of vaccines, the federal government in the US has worked very closely with the market. What they did is easily visible from a range of instruments that the federal government has invoked to jump-start the R&D and production of vaccines for a new and unknown disease. A survey of these support instruments reveals that they have tried out every tool of state support available in the book. But the most important of which is the importance that the US has given to fundamental research on vaccines, which eventually helped it develop highly effective vaccines within a brief period. The US has now gone a step further in assigning a greater role for the government, even applied developmental research. This has manifested in the senate passing a new bill called the United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 in June 2021. This is an essential lesson for countries such as India that it must support basic research on vaccine development in one of its numerous public laboratories. The second lesson that the US case has for us is the prime importance of involving the public sector. In the US, this is confined to the performance and finance of R&D itself. In the case of India, the public sector must be involved not only in the performance and financing of R&D but also in the manufacturing of vaccines as considerable installed capacity exists in the industry.
Further, the public sector laboratories and institutes have a long history of manufacturing and supplying high-quality vaccines. They must be involved in vaccine production for COVID-19, even if it is only in the long run. In other words, the public and private sectors must complement each other. The government can play an essential role in crafting the sectoral system of innovation of the COVID-19 vaccine industry, just like what the US has done it already. The third lesson for India is that the state must play an active and timely role in improving the availability of critical inputs for manufacturing and distributing vaccines in an industry whose value chain is globally distributed. The three issues indicate a more significant role for industrial policy than what is practised on an ad hoc basis now. Recent events and discussions have shown that a historically free-market-oriented economy such as that of the US is finding much relevance for a more significant role for industrial policy. In comparison, a historically state-directed economy such as India seems to be moving towards a more substantial role for the market with potential adverse consequences.
Further reading: https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/48/special-articles/role-industrial-policy-market-friendly-economies.html
Monday, November 21, 2022
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Solve 2022 Impact report
Download the report: https://info.solve.mit.edu/hubfs/Solve%202022%20Impact%20Report%20(2).pdf?
Wednesday, November 09, 2022
INDIA’S INNOVATION BUZZ- ROLE OF Public, Private, Media
Celebrating India’s 75th independence, Indian Prime Minister added `Jai anusandhan' (Research and Innovation) to spur nation to build Innovative India. Earlier the then Prime Minister declared 2010 to 2020 as ` Decade of Innovation'. Will the results be different now?
The crucial difference is that the call of Innovation Decade did not result in any medals as there are no runners. Now the situation is different- funding for Proof-of- Concept, Innovation Challenges and Demand for local innovations under Make-In- India initiative have created a formidable group of innovators with potential to succeed in world stage. This paper is from upcoming book-Top 100 Indian Innovations.
Download paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4266737
Draft University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedures for Award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2022
Highights of the draft:
Focus on teaching
All Ph.D., entrants irrespective of discipline, shall be required to take credit-based courses in teaching/education/pedagogy/writing related to their chosen Ph.D. subject during their doctoral training period. Ph.D. scholars may also have 3-4 hours per week of actual teaching experience gathered through teaching assistantships or other forms of knowledge dissemination that are not repetitive. Teaching for the Department, supervision of fellow students/technical staff, dissemination tasks can also be credited as knowledge dissemination and as a work commitment.
IPR
Lifelong learners/ accomplished researchers as evinced from their original contributions in terms of patents granted or 10 new relevant knowledge or/and artistic practices desirous to get a research degree the Research Advisory Committee may provide choices in selecting the courses/ credits that facilitates the entrepreneur in the monetization of IP thus generated.
If the research results of the thesis constitute new possible things for the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs), the Ph.D. candidate and Supervisor shall inform the University or the Research Advisory Committee about the matter. In this case, the Ph.D. candidate, with the consent of the Supervisor, may request that the submitted dissertation be treated discreetly before the thesis is submitted for assessment, until the defence/viva-voce. The IPR Cell or the competent body of the university designated for the purpose shall 14 conduct the procedure for legal and commercial protection of research results, in accordance with the relevant Regulations. In this case, the public defence can be extended, in agreement with the Ph.D. candidate, at the latest for a year, starting on the day of the procedure of evaluation of the dissertation.
Plagiarism
The thesis shall be submitted together with an originality report produced by an antiplagiarism software application. The supervisor (and co-supervisor, if there is any) shall receive an originality report on the whole text of the thesis and shall take this report into account in the evaluation on the submission.
Publication
It is desirable that the research work of Ph.D. scholars is published in peer reviewed or refereed journals and presented in conferences/seminars. An originality report is not to be considered as sufficient proof that the submitted thesis does not contain plagiarized text. Avoiding plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct in the authorship of the thesis remains the sole responsibility of the researcher. If the Research Supervisor (or Co-Supervisor) suspects plagiarism, he or she may ask for an investigation.
Friday, October 28, 2022
Top Product Innovations from India
This book is a compilation of Indian Innovations, physical and embodied. Indian Unicorns, business models, commerce & Financial innovations are widely covered by media. Not much is known about product innovations, and the innovators behind product innovations are relatively unknown. This will be the first book that fills the gap. It is intended as yearbook to the published every year.
Planned for formal release on 17th Novemeber 2022 diring INEX 2022, Goa. Buy online at
https://notionpress.com/read/top-100-indian-innovations-2022?
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Friday, October 14, 2022
Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI)’s AIS-140 standard
The Automotive Industry Standard 140 (AIS standard) is a collection of regulations produced by the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) for all public transit systems in India to develop an Intelligent Transportation System. This required measure was made when the government recognized the critical need to increase efficiency in India’s transportation sector. As a result, the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) was created. Road traffic management and mitigation, public transportation management, and crisis management are all covered by ITS. It is an internationally proven method that allows the transportation authority to obtain control of the country’s entire transportation movement. As a result, the AIS guidelines were developed. Among these are the AIS 140 guidelines. While a typical GPS device can only broadcast a vehicle’s location to one server, an AIS 140 GPS device can send the location to three servers at the same time.
Draft of guidelines:
Story of Startup Loconav: https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/entrepreneurs/more-than-deployment-this-fleet-tech-is-reshaping-modern/386423
Airtels AIS140 system: https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/airtel-launches-always-on-iot-solution-for-vehicle-tracking-automakers/94856450?
Monday, August 22, 2022
75 AI products developed in India by DRDO and DPSUs.
The Indian Defence industry is taking giant steps in transforming the armed forces into one of the most advanced in the world. The adoption of technology based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) will revolutionise the Indian Military. It also places India firmly in the huge defence product market. Government support and plans to modernize the military through AI is a result of years of groundwork. Bold policies, dedicated budgets, policy changes and the thrust towards indigenisation, have helped create an atmosphere of cutting-edge innovation and collaboration. This joint effort among industry both public and private, research organisations, academic institutions, start-ups and innovators has helped create many unique technological products based on AI in the areas of data, logistics, surveillance, weapons and many more. The introduction of autonomy in weapon systems, in ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance), data management, can be a huge asset in stopping terrorism, installing counter-terrorism measures, protecting soldiers. In fact, AI in defence can change combat and conflict at the deepest levels. This book is a compendium of some stupendous products and stellar achievements in AI-based technologies in defence by individuals, companies and institutions towards catapulting the Indian defence industry into a major global force.
Read: https://www.ddpmod.gov.in/sites/default/files/ai.pdf
Thursday, July 21, 2022
iDEX DISC7 (SPRINT) challenges- last date 15th August 2022
SPRINT (Supporting Pole-vaulting in R&D through iDEX, NIIO and TDAC) is a collaborative project between the Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO) and NIIO aimed at developing atleast 75 indigenous technologies / products as a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. The challenges span across a wide range of niche technology fields including Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous and unmanned systems and Information Technology. Challenges will be considered under both DISC (Defence India Startup Challenge) and Prime categories of iDEX which have provisions for grants upto Rs 1.5 crore and Rs 10 crore respectively. In addition, suo moto proposals submitted by innovators and startups under the IDEX Open Challenge category are also being considered under SPRINT.
See the challenges here:
Application form: https://idex.gov.in/form/disc-7-sprint
Wednesday, July 06, 2022
Tamilnadu R&D policy- thrust on private sector R&D and Global Capacity Centres
While the Government of India is waiting approval of draft 5th National Science, Technology and Innovation policy, Tamilnadu sate quietly released state R&D policy. It is remarkable in two ways, first most of funding for R&D comes from central government departments and second focus on R&D investment by commercial firms.
Highlights on incentives:
One of the key policy objectives is to boost private R&D expenditure. Private businesses engage in R&D activities mainly to increase the competitiveness of their products and services and hence innovation is intrinsic to their growth. Private sector participation in R&D is vital to create an impetus for innovation-led growth for the State. The Government of Tamil Nadu recognizes the private sector as the engine of growth of R&D in the State and hence shall support the business initiatives related to establishment and expansion of R&D Centres and GCCs through various targeted incentives.
4.2.1. Land Cost Incentive for Standalone R&D Projects R&D projects shall be given an incentive of 50% of the cost of purchase or lease of land for up to 20 acre, subject to a ceiling of Rs. 50 lakh/acre.
4.2.2. R&D Training Incentive R&D Training Incentive of Rs. 10,000 per person per month can be availed for 12 months for the residents of Tamil Nadu. This incentive is intended for employees engaged in core R&D who have an undergraduate degree in technology/sciences and a work experience of 7 years, or a post-graduate degree in technology/sciences and a work experience of 5 years, or a doctorate in sciences/technology.
4.2.3. Enhanced Quality Certification Incentive Projects obtaining certifications like ISO, ISI, BIS, FPO, BEE, AGMARK, and ECOMARK or any other national or international certification shall be given a subsidy of 50% of the total cost incurred for obtaining the certification, as certified by the Chartered Accountant, limited to Rs. 1 cr. for the period of investment.
4.2.4. Enhanced Intellectual Property Incentive The Government will reimburse 50% of the expenditure incurred by the Project subject to a maximum of Rs. 1 cr. for the period of investment for in-house R&D for a patent, copyright, trademarks, and Geographical Indicators registration and up to Rs 5 cr. for standalone R&D assets.
Also read Hindu article -The untold story of silent revolution.
Friday, July 01, 2022
100 Top Innovations 2022
Indian Innovators Association is coming out with this publication. Self nomination accepted. Send before end of July 2022.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Seeking Public Comments on the proposed draft for amendment in Part-I and Part-II of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“IT Rules, 2021”)
Government of India is seeking Public Comments on the proposed draft for amendment in Part-I and Part-II of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“IT Rules, 2021”). Last date 6th July 2022.
Spicy IP commented on the proposed amendment:
1. That all intermediaries shall ensure accessibility to its services and maintain reasonable expectations of due diligence, privacy and transparency.
2. That all intermediaries shall respect the rights of citizens guaranteed under the Constitution of India.
3. That all intermediaries shall act on complaints for removal of content falling under Rule 3(1)(b)(i)-(x) within 72 hours of receipt of complaint.
4. That a Grievance Appellate Committee shall be set-up to hear appeals against decisions of the Grievance Redressal Officer under Rule 3(2).
5. That all intermediaries shall have to comply with the decision of the Grievance Appellate Committee.,
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