Filmus seeks deployment of Indian technologies in Argentina
India’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) would connect with the Argentinian industries, and with the Government support, will help implement technologies, products and processes in that country.
This assurance was given by the Minister of Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh who had discussed bilateral issues during a meeting with Argentinian Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation Daniel Filmus.
The visiting Minister had sought Indian support to deploy technologies for implementation by industry and facilitating the entrepreneurs in his country.
CSIR is among the global R&D leaders and has intrinsic strengths to provide S&T expertise in the development process through effective international collaboration, Dr Jitendra Singh pointed out at the meeting held 7 Feb 2023 in New Delhi.
Dr Jitendra Singh added that the CSIR can play a lead role, especially in industrial innovation collaboration through joint technology development and upscaling of each other’s Intellectual Property (IP) for commercialization.
Dr Jitendra Singh recalled that CSIR and the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina had signed a cooperation agreement way back in 1985 which was renewed in 2009.
Two joint R&D projects were executed by their institutes under inter-governmental programme between DST, India, and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (MINCyT) of Argentine.
These were:
a) Exploring microbial diversity in traditional fermentations from India and Argentina and its potential for bioethanol production (CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, CSIR-CLRI) during 2015-18)
b) Developing and implementing chemogenomics platform for aiding drug discovery for tropical infectious diseases” (CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL) during 2016-19).
Dr Jitendra Singh said that CSIR welcomes strengthening collaboration with Argentina for co-development and deployment of joint programs especially focused on promoting in-house development in industrial sectors.
He listed the sectors such as Biotechnology (including plant biotechnology and food technologies); Nanotechnology (including nanomaterials); Healthcare (Therapeutics, using both modern science and traditional knowledge, Diagnostics, Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals); Sustainable (Green) Energy and Environment; Marine science and Oceanography; Mining and Minerals; Aerospace technologies; Electronics and instrumentation; and Chemicals, Leather and Petrochemicals.
Dr Jitendra Singh briefed his Argentinian counterpart Filmus on CSIR world-class expertise and facilities, adding that it is one of the largest industrial R&D organizations in the world with 37 multi-disciplinary R&D institutes located across India.
With its state-of-the-art expertise, capacities and capabilities, CSIR could contribute effectively towards Research and Innovation Collaborations, Technology Partnerships, Research Infrastructure Development & Sharing, and Capacity Building, the Minister added.
CSIR’s Technology Incubators [Venture Center at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Atal Incubation Centre at CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Aerospace Incubation Centre of CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Incubation Centre of CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) and CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research] are successfully contributing in India’s innovation development with active participation of industry, especially start-ups.
CSIR can host science parks’, incubators and accelerators’ residents from Argentina in its incubators and facilitate its incubators’ residents to access such facilities in Argentina.
Also, CSIR could organize specialized entrepreneurship development programmes and training courses focused specifically for technological updates and sharing incubator management experiences. fiinews.com
