Tag: Indian Institute for Science
26th November 2014
New Delhi, India
We’re always delighted to hear when researchers we’ve worked with have been able to get a new collaboration going. Recently, researchers at the Indian Institute for Science and the University of Oxford inaugurated an exciting new project together on affordable prosthetics. This project was particularly close to our hearts as it had been initiated by […]
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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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1st May 2013
New Delhi, India
It was with great sadness that the SIN team learnt of the passing of Professor Sanjay Biswas over the weekend. He was a great friend to the team, and a tireless advocate for Indo-UK research collaboration. He was a truly special person, and we will miss him. As people got in touch to share their […]
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18th January 2013
New Delhi, India
Last week I visited the Indian Institute for Science where a distinguished delegation of academics from Imperial College London were holding a joint workshop organised by the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial and the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at IISc Bangalore. Aside from a fabulous lunch up in the trees of IISc’s […]
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14th January 2013
New Delhi, India
For my first day back at work in New Year I had the pleasure of welcoming UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Sir John Beddington (@uksciencechief) back to India. He was in Kolkata to speak at the inauguration of the 100th annual Indian Science Congress. Founded in 1914, in Kolkata, the Congress was the initiative […]
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24th September 2012
New Delhi, India
In a week when the UK was confirmed as having four universities in the top six in the world, we had a high-powered delegation from the University of Cambridge (ranking top in the UK) in town, led by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz. The main event on 13th September was Science, Innovation and […]
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7th September 2012
Bangalore, India
Ever since I worked in Knowledge Management for Mahindra Satyam I have been fascinated by how research ideas become products on the shelf. Looking at examples of university spinouts or SMEs one realises that most success in the product space is due to hard work, access to the right ecosystems, funding, and technology networks to […]
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