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14th December 2015 Bangalore, India

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by Sunil Kumar

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

A whirlwind tour to UK’s manufacturing research centres

Unlike other visits to the UK, this one was different. I and my colleague Vijay Jasuja from UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) went on a tour to the UK with an interesting and vibrant mix of academics and R&D Heads of Indian manufacturing companies to visit the high value manufacturing catapults and universities from October […]

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26th May 2015 New Delhi, India

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by Karanpreet

Science and Innovation Adviser

Newton Bhabha Innovation Workshop: Industry Academia Engagement

On 12-13 May 2015, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), in partnership with the Science and Innovation Network (SIN) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) organised a workshop in New Delhi on ‘industry academia engagement’. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the current challenges of technological development in India, […]

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2nd February 2015 Bangalore, India

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by Sunil Kumar

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

Business models and routes to market

Guest blog by Dr  Shailendra Vyakarnam is the Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship Learning, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge The Indian biotech sector is set to grow. This has been clearly stated by the Dept. of Biotechnology and numerous agencies. Resources are being allocated for this purpose and the evidence of this can be seen when […]

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5th November 2014 Montreal, Canada

The Frankencell saga continues

  The Frankencell saga we started last year (“Creating-altering life – the Frankencell”) continued after the long awaited visit to Montreal of UK´s Synthetic Biology champion former Minister David Willetts and this third episode discusses last week’s first UK-Canada Synthetic Biology Workshop. British Consul General Nick Baker opened this two-day event in Montreal hosted by […]

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29th September 2014 Bangalore, India

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by Sunil Kumar

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

Joining for global health

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending two days listening to top experts from UK and India discuss the challenges of drug discovery and challenges faced by patients, policy makers and researchers due to microbes that have become resistant to antibiotics. We had a large UK research delegation in Bangalore to participate in […]

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26th June 2014 Mumbai, India

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by Vijay Iyer

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

Prospects of UK-India collaborative partnerships in distributed manufacturing

Last week (16-19 June), I led a 4-member delegation of Indian manufacturing experts from the IITs and IISc to the UK for a 4-day programme on manufacturing. The visit kicked off with a one-day UK-India workshop on distributed manufacturing in London, jointly organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Indian National Academy of Engineering. […]

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19th May 2014 Mumbai, India

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by Vijay Iyer

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

UK-India workshop on distributed manufacturing

Next month, I will be leading a 5-member delegation of manufacturing experts from India to London to attend the UK-India workshop on distributed manufacturing on June 16. This event is being jointly organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Indian National Academy of Engineering with support from the UK Science and Innovation Network India […]

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6th May 2014 Mumbai, India

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by Vijay Iyer

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

Roundtable on UK-India manufacturing policy

Last month on April 9, my colleagues – Leena Arora (Science and Innovation Network) and Abhirup Dasgupta (UK Trade and Investment) – and I collaborated with the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge to organise a roundtable discussion on UK-India manufacturing policy in New Delhi. While the UK speakers came from organisations including […]

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20th November 2013 Montreal, Canada

It’s chow time!

Thanksgiving kicked off the unofficial season of gluttonous indulgence that will stretch right through New Year’s – assuming that Easter does not count. I don’t know about you, but I try to undo what I did to my belly during this gluttony season from January to September – when the diet mode is thrown out the window even before I reach the gravy during Thanksgiving…

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20th September 2013 New Delhi, India

Interview with the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, was in India this week, visiting institutions in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. Among other calls in Bangalore, he launched our new prize for biotech businesses to visit Cambridge and had several discussions to take forward the Bangalore Cambridge Innovation Network. I caught up […]

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