by Sunil Kumar |
May 17, 2013 | 2 comments
A couple of weeks ago I was involved in an event bringing together aerospace researchers and companies from the UK and India together for three days to discuss opportunities for working together. We asked Venkatesh Janakiram, Senior Trade & Investment Advisor in Aerospace at the British Deputy High Commission, to write about the event… One hundred years ago, the slogan “Anyone, Anything, Anywhere, Anytime” would have meant leaving home when transportation … Read more »Sky’s the limit in Indo-UK aerospace technology
by Leena Arora |
May 7, 2013 | 4 comments
No-one really knows what the future holds, but the reality now is that our urban spaces are overcrowded and polluted. India is rapidly urbanizing. From 1991 to 2011, the urban population in India has increased from 100 million to 200 million. By 2041, 50-percent of India’s population is expected to live in cities. On average, the population of India’s six major metropolises nearly doubled between 1981 to 2001; while the … Read more »Streets ahead – How will our future cities look?
by Tom Wells |
May 1, 2013 | 8 comments
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 grief and fond memories, it became clear just how influential and highly regarded he was … Read more »A tribute to Professor Sanjay Biswas
by Catherine Brain |
April 25, 2013 | 2 comments
The new India-UK Intellectual Property (IP) Toolkit has been launched and all of the documents are available here. Details on our journey to this launch are available on my earlier blog. The aim of this toolkit is to provide guidance and examples of agreements to support IP negotiations in bilateral R&D partnerships. This is an amazing resource, full of information and key issues which should help to keep any IP … Read more »India-UK IP framework now available
by Kinchit Bihani |
April 19, 2013 | 1 comment
“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 counterparts. This is difficult. Everyone’s heard of the ‘butterfly flaps its wing in Brazil and … Read more »A look to the future
by Sunil Kumar |
April 11, 2013 | Reply
Research between India and the UK is growing and joint research funding between both countries now exceeds £100 million. An important strand in this research co-operation is health and biopharma. But if this research is to become real-world treatments and medical products, regulations in both countries will come into play. Therefore, regulations which support collaboration, and well informed communities on both sides, are things we’re keen to support. With that … Read more »Understanding Indo-UK health regulations
by Catherine Brain |
March 25, 2013 | 2 comments
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 UK and Indian businesses to work together on the commercialisation of research. The signing took place … Read more »Giant leap forward for Indo-UK Industrial R&D
by Swati Saxena |
March 22, 2013 | 8 comments
Extinction is forever – something that happens to several plant species each year. They disappear without any chance of being replaced, many before their potential to help us has been fully assessed. The urgency of plant conservation was brought home to me after my interactions with Hugh Pritchard, who heads the Research, Seed Conservation and Senior Science Group in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. I have been privileged to get a fair amount of understanding of Kew’s … Read more »Joining hands in conserving earth’s plant riches
by Leena Arora |
March 20, 2013 | Reply
Not me getting set up for a crime I didn’t commit, but a useful meeting entitled “Opportunities for creative collaboration between India and the UK” where we discussed case studies and new developments in both countries… Last week I was in Mumbai to attend the 14th chapter of FICCI Frames, one of the most noteworthy media and entertainment sector trade events in India. The show is regularly attended by a large number of … Read more »Framed at FICCI
by Tom Wells |
March 19, 2013 | Reply
Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreessen were announced as the inaugural winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (a £1m global engineering prize) this week. They were selected for their ground breaking work which led to the internet and world wide web. We’re pretty sure we can’t add much to what’s been written about the web (on the web!), and it’s impact on our lives, … Read more »Best of Engineering, Best of the Web