28th June 2016 Delhi, India
I recently took over as the innovation lead in Science and Innovation Network India (SIN) team, which with India’s focus on translating research, is an important area of joint collaboration between the UK and India. To find out more about this collaboration I headed to Bengaluru, biotechnology hub of India for a networking event of […]
17th August 2015 New Delhi, India
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 […]
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24th October 2014 Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Chevening Scholarship programme celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this year. It’s a universally popular programme, offering scholarships for post-graduate study in the UK to outstanding individuals who have the capacity to be leaders in their chosen areas of work. So it’s great news that the anniversary is being celebrated by an increase in the […]
26th September 2013 New Delhi, India
Last week I was at a dinner with one of the professors from the University of Cambridge. Over dessert, he said something to me that changed the way I looked at the role of ‘Universities’ in the Innovation ecosystem. He told me about how he and some of his colleagues not only teach their students […]
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20th September 2013 New Delhi, India
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, was in India this week, visiting institutions in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. Among other calls in Bangalore, he launched our new prize for biotech businesses to visit Cambridge and had several discussions to take forward the Bangalore Cambridge Innovation Network. I caught up […]
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