INDUSTRY/FOUNDATIONS – ACADEMIA ENGAGEMENTS

● Office of Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) toGovernment of India has been instrumental infacilitating Industry-Academia partnerships for socialand industrial development.

● Engaging with industry partners on 150+ projectsfocused on Agriculture, Electric vehicles, Energyefficiency, Defense, Waste management, WASH,Networking, Biomedical, Chemicals etc.

● Academic institutes include a vast network of IITs,NITs, IISc, IISERs, CSIR labs, Research Parks,AGNIi, Atal incubation centers (60 premierinstitutes).

● The Industry-Academia collaborations support:❑ Joint R&D or contracted Industry R&D,❑ Establishment of Centers of Excellence (CoE)

by industry in academic institutes to promoteinnovation, and

❑ Finding innovative solutions for socialdevelopment.

Key Partnerships based on the

areas

Many industries and foundations stepped up to support academia in their

ventures. Listed here are the organizations categorized

based on the thematic areas of projects they supported.

Social Development

projects

American India Foundation, BHEL, CAMBI,

CISCO, GATES Foundation, Deloitte,

IFFCO, Keystone Foundation, KVIC, Nudge

Foundation, Pradhan, Railways

Indian Express initiative, Rockefeller

Foundation, Social Alpha, Space India

Foundation, SWWW, the echo network, TiE,

Toilet Board Coalition, UNEP, Unilever

(HUL), USAID.

Emerging technologies

ABB, Adobe, Amazon, AssisTech

Foundation, Bajaj, BEL, Bloomberg, CISCO,

Clean Air Asia, Corporation (NPCIL),

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, DCM

Shriram, Election Commission, Electronics

Committee - CII, Himalaya, Honeywell, HP,

Huawei, IOCL, Microsoft, NASSCOM

Foundation, NTPC, Nuclear Power, Nvidia,

PNB housing, Rallis, SAIL, Shell, Tata

Chemicals, Tata Power, TCS, Toyota,

UNDP, UNIDO, Villgro, VMware, Wadhwani,

Youth4Jobs.

April 2020 onwards - Key Industry Partnerships in Different Sectors

Thematic area Name of the Companies

Agriculture

Rallis India, DCM Shriram, CISCO, Indigram Labs Foundation, IFFCO,

Social Alpha, the echo network, Pradhan, Nudge Foundation, CISCO,

DCM Sriram

Automotive Daimler India, TATA Motors, ABB

AI (Machine Learning)

/ IT

Wadhwani, AssisTech Foundation, Youth4Jobs, Amadeus, Vmware,

NASSCOM Foundation, TCS

WASH (Water,

Sanitation, Hygiene)

Unilever (HUL), Toilet Board Coalition, GATES Foundation, Railways

Indian Express initiative, USAID, UNEP

Health/Biomedical

Gates Foundation, Pune cluster/NCBS, South Korean RT-PCR extract

system, Project Nivaran - ICT, Mumbai, America-India Foundation, Pune

Cluster,

Electronics &

DefenceBEL, Electronics Committee - CII, Nuclear Power Corporation NPCIL

Oil & Gas, ChemicalsRockefeller Foundation, GAIL, SAIL, UNDP - plastic to waste, IOCL,

Ministry of Petroleum

Capacity

building/Skill

Development

CSR BOX, TiE, Amazon, Microsoft, BHEL, Deloitte, CISCO

Power and Energy Tata Chemical, Tata Power, Kamposh Foundation

Differently abled AssisTech Foundation, Youth4jobs

Acknowledging Industries during COVID-19

Funding & technical collaborationopportunities for around 56 projectscreated and closed with the followingIndustries:

R&D/Innovation Outcomes

• Funding & technical collaboration opportunities created and closed during COVID-19 pandemic.

• Scale up of RT-PCR and other molecular diagnostic kits, Ventilators and PPE kits.

• Engagement with MSME and Startups for components manufacturing

• Over 1.5 lakh face shields manufactured and delivered.• TCS developed National digital platform for reagents• GATES Foundation funded National Technician Training: TIFR

Hyderabad, IIE, Delhi, TIFR Bombay and Project Management: PAN IIT

• Mobile Diagnostic lab developed by IISc in partnership with Toyota Kirloskar, Daimler and Tata Motors. DRDO, IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati developing further labs with funding support from GATES Foundation.

• Significant rise in testing capacity and efficiency.

• FIND challenge for detection of antigens and a global marketplace for evaluation of antigen tests & exports – few MSMEs won the challenge

• GATES Foundation funded development of reagents at the Hyderabad Cluster

• Rockefeller Foundation funded development of Reagents for Bangalore cluster

R&D/Innovation Outcomes

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• Innovation challenges from Industry partners i.e. UNDP, BEL, TATA

chemicals, UNIDO

• Provided innovations for a Smart Railway Station to IRDSC, Railways

in areas of electrification, WASH, Vendor systems, Smart Kiosks.

• Partnered with GATES/USAID sourcing R&D in Tuberculosis.

• Daimler’s engagement on braking system with BARC and IIT Madras.

• Partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support startups

aiming at Digital Innovation for Rural Economy.

• Partnerships with organizations like Nudge foundation, Indigram labs

foundation, America India Foundation, Social Alpha, to communicate

important information in academic ecosystem.

• Establishment of incubation center to promote women entrepreneurs by

IIM Bangalore.

• NBCC aiding development of lab space for a Centre of Excellence

(CoE) at IIT Madras for waste management.

Special Projects:

❑ Deloitte with IIT Madras – undertaking capacity building of faculty

members

❑ Building digital platforms for Industry-Academia partnerships and

WASH technologies