DST Entrusted NRDC to Manage ASEAN - India Innovation Platform

New Delhi: Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India has entrusted National Research Development Corporation with the management of ASEAN-India Innovation Platform for a period of four years.

 

The spectrum of management of ASEAN-India Innovation Platform encompasses creation of an ASEAN-India data bank including linking of existing data banks of available technologies and its maintenance and normalisation of collected data including sourcing of ideas online from India and ASEAN countries; selection and validation of technologies through expert committees for identifying the potential technology in ASEAN members; to perform need analysis of technological requirements by organising annual meet in India of ASEAN members for need assessment on the data generated through participation in different platforms; follow-up meet to update and review; and organising training programmes on Technology and Intellectual Property Management. 

 

The ASEAN-India Science & Technology Collaboration formally started in 1996, with the establishment of the ASEAN-India working group on S&T (AIWGST). Initially, the collaborative S&T projects and activities between India and ASEAN were supported through ASEAN-India Fund (AIF), but in 2008, a dedicated ASEAN-India S&T Development Fund, with an equivalent amount of US$ 1 million was established jointly by Ministry of External Affairs and DST, Govt. of India to support R&D projects and associated project development activities. The AISTDF was enhanced to an equivalent amount of US$ 5 Million through an announcement by Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on the sidelines of ASEAN-India Summit in Malaysia in November 2015. The ASEAN-India Innovation Platform is the major element of the enhanced AISTDF.

 

ASEAN-India Innovation Platform in one of the major scientific activities of the ASEAN-India S&T Development Fund.