EBTC brings EU technologies to India to achieve the mandate of mitigating the effects of climate change, whilst NRDC with its deep network of research & development institutions, has proven its capabilities to enable technology transfer and commercialization.
Director of EBTC, Mr. Poul V. Jensen highlights that “technology transfer tools offered by EBTC such as the European Technology Experience Centre (ETEC), or Enterprise Europe Network amongst others, very much compliment NRDC capabilities. Both the acquisition of technology and its diffusion will foster productivity and growth in the country – an increase in the uptake of technologies leads to economic development.”
Horizon 2020, the EU framework programme for research collaboration, with funding worth nearly 80 billion Euros from 2014-2020, is another example where NRDC can act as a multiplier to connect the EU research community with its Indian counterparts. EBTC can leverage NRDC’s association within a vast network universities and research institutions to facilitate the installation of powerful EU-India research consortia for cross border research collaboration projects.
Head of IPR at EBTC, Mr. Arvind Chopra adds that “the collaboration will help to strengthen IPR capacity building. Many European companies have patented technologies which can be used in India. In this frame, EBTC and NRDC in future will work together to develop an IP valuation tool which could be employed as a standard tool for performing initial valuations of technology.”
This MoU represents a powerful and targeted partnership to enhance research, business and trade together, EBTC and NRDC can achieve a mutual target of technology collaboration and transfer between the EU and India with a sustainable agenda.
About EBTC
The European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC) is an initiative co-funded by the European Union (EU), and coordinated by EUROCHAMBRES. Focusing on the 4 key sectors of Biotech, Energy, Environment and Transport, EBTC assists the business, science and research community – in Europe and India – to work together towards generating new business opportunities in clean technology transfer. As a prime toolbox for EU and Indian businesses, researchers, clusters, and policy makers, EBTC has a portfolio of services to support cross-border collaboration at all levels - from comprehensive market information to help overcome market access issues, to project and partner identification, strategic advisory services, an IPR helpdesk, business and technology incubation, and more.
About NRDC
The National Research Development Corporation, was established in 1953 as a Government of India enterprise and is presently working under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology with the objective to develop, promote and transfer of technologies emanating from various national R& D institutions. The Corporation has been offering the services from its head office in New Delhi and branch office at Bangalore in improving the manufacturing base in India with innovative technologies and acting as an effective catalyst translating innovative research into marketable industrial products. During the past five decades of its operations, the Corporation has forged strong links with various R & D organisations in the country as well as from abroad. The Corporation is now recognised as a large repository of wide range of technologies spread over almost all areas of industries
