One week, four Indian cities and over 300 Indian attendees gives SIN an opportunity to promote the UK’s excellence in innovation and incubation and celebrate ‘Technology is GREAT’ across India. The SIN India team and UK innovation experts showcased the strengths of our innovation and incubation ecosystem in India. Experts from Cambridge Enterprise, IdeaSpace, Isis […]
Later this year, we will be bringing a UK delegation out to India to visit innovation and incubation centres. The ‘Make in India’ initiative involves the need to promote innovation and entrepreneurs and we believe the UK’s expertise in this area could be leveraged to create more joint collaborations. To better understand our own innovation […]
Former President of India, Scientist extraordinaire, enthusiastic professor and writer, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam passed away on 27th July 2015 in Shillong, Meghalaya where he was to deliver a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong. Popularly known as the ‘People’s President’, Dr Kalam worked as a Scientist at Defence Research and Development […]
On 12-13 May 2015, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), in partnership with the Science and Innovation Network (SIN) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) organised a workshop in New Delhi on ‘industry academia engagement’. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the current challenges of technological development in India, […]
The UK Science and Innovation Network, together with the British Council and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) organised a half-day workshop on ‘Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – A Case for Intervention’ on 12th February 2015 at New Delhi. The event was held on the sidelines of the ‘Global Education Dialogue […]
Karanpreet Kaur is Science and Innovation Adviser based at the British High Commission, New Delhi. She leads on innovation related issues within the team, including identifying opportunities for UK-India collaboration…
Karanpreet Kaur is Science and Innovation Adviser based at the British High Commission, New Delhi. She leads on innovation related issues within the team, including identifying opportunities for UK-India collaboration and reviewing India’s innovation capacity. Prior to that, she has worked with Ennovent India Advisors, an innovation accelerator, and the Indian Army’s Think Tank, Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) as a Researcher focusing on military technology and defence policy. She holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Masters in International Business from Royal Holloway, University of London.