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10th March 2015 New Delhi, India

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by Karanpreet

Science and Innovation Adviser

UK-India Workshop on Women in STEM – A Case for Intervention

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 […]

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27th August 2014 New Delhi, India

Deputy Prime Minister announces new UK-India partnerships to tackle some of the world’s biggest problems

During a trade mission to India this week, the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced a series of new partnerships between British and Indian scientists which will look to tackle some of the biggest issues facing the two countries. From vital health research to predicting the weather, the new partnerships will cement the position of […]

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26th August 2014 New Delhi, India

by Mark Sinclair

Head of Science & Innovation, India

2nd UK-India Task Force on Science & Innovation

A couple of weeks back I was lucky enough to be in London to enjoy some glorious English summer weather and, more importantly, participate in the second UK-India Science & Innovation Task Force meeting. Professor T K Chandrashekar, Secretary of India’s Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), led a high level Indian delegation to London for […]

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21st November 2013 New Delhi, India

Unveiled: UK-India collaborative industrial R&D programme

Last week in New Delhi, new funding up to £5mn from the Technology Strategy Board which is the UK’s innovation agency, with matched resources from India’s Department of Science and Technology was announced to support joint Research & Development projects led by businesses in the two countries. The UK-India Collaborative Industrial R&D Programme aims to […]

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30th July 2013 New Delhi, India

Innovation is GREAT round up

At the UK-India Summit in February this year our Prime Ministers issued a declaration in which they “welcomed the rapid expansion of India-UK research and development cooperation, which is helping to generate and develop high quality, high impact research partnerships leading to new knowledge creation”.   But they also stated there was “considerable potential for expanding […]

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19th April 2013 New Delhi, India

A look to the future

“For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”. Undoubtedly, no one knows the future. Yet the above quote from Malcom X neatly encapsulates why strategic thinkers across the globe need to anticipate the future. Policy makers, businessman, militaries. All try to contemplate future scenarios in order to stay ahead of their global […]

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25th March 2013 New Delhi, India

Giant leap forward for Indo-UK Industrial R&D

A whirlwind 3 day trip to the UK resulted in an exciting development – a UK India Programme of Co-operation (POC) on joint industrial research has been signed (see our earlier press release). This is an agreement between India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the UK’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to support innovative […]

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