A. Drugs and Pharmaceutical Research
The programme supports R&D projects jointly carried out by academic and research institutes and industries. Through this scheme, DST provides soft loans (up to 70% of project cost) to drug industries for scaling their R&D activities. DST also provides special grants to industries for pursuing clinical studies. The programme has led to nearly 30 collaborative projects and established ~50 industry-institute alliances.
B. Technology Development Program (TDP)
The program provides financial support for R&D projects to evolve integrated technologies/processes. For financial grants, the I-A collaborative R&D projects are given preference.
C. Centres for Policy Research
In 2014, DST has established 5 Centres for Policy Research to strengthen innovation, entrepreneurship and I-A partnerships for R&D in India. These Centres are located in Panjab University, Chandigarh; Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)-New Delhi; Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU)-Lucknow; Indian Institute of Science (IISc)-Bangalore and Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII)-Ahmedabad. The Centre for Policy Research at Panjab University, Chandigarh is dedicatedly working for strengthening PPP for R&D.
Technology Missions Divisions
DST has undertaken 4 domain specific missions (Water Technology Initiative, Clean Energy Research Initiative, Nano Science and Technology Mission, Nano Super Computing Mission) to facilitate generation of S&T based sustainable models by collaborative nationally and internationally with various stakeholders, both from public as well as private sectors.
Technology Development Program (TDP)
The program provides financial support for R&D projects to evolve integrated technologies/processes. For financial grants, the I-A collaborative R&D projects are given preference.
Drugs and Pharmaceutical Research
The programme supports R&D projects jointly carried out by academic and research institutes and industries. Through this scheme, DST provides soft loans (up to 70% of project cost) to drug industries for scaling their R&D activities. DST also provides special grants to industries for pursuing clinical studies. The programme has led to nearly 30 collaborative projects and established ~50 industry-institute alliances.
PPP Programme of International S&T Divisions of DST
Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA)
It is jointly supported by DST, GoI, New Delhi and Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Government of France. The Centre is implementing various programmes to support collaborative research between India and France through academia-academia and I-A collaborations. The Centre also acts as a funding partner for various R&D project areas of mutual interest under PPP mode.
PPP Programs of IFCPAR/ CEFIPRA
Innovation Programmes
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The Centre has launched ‘Innovation Programmes’ through which private players can collaborate and fund collaborative R&D projects with CEFIPRA. It has resulted into a number of successful collaborations of CEFIPRA with private players such as, Airbus SAS and SAINT-Gobain Research India (SGRI) Ltd. to promote R&D under PPP mode.
BIRAC-CEFIPRA-French Embassy Programme
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BIRAC and the French Embassy are together supporting collaborative research involving biotech start-ups, SMEs and academic institutes. There is another collaborative programme ‘BIRAC-CEFIPRA-Bpifrance Programme’ for promoting the competitiveness of both Indian and French biotech industries and academia.
Indo-French Water Network (IFWN) Programme
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To build stronger relationships between industry and academic communities the programme aids for collaborated research projects and joint endeavour related to water technology.
TDB-CEFIPRA-Bpifrance Programme
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The programme aims to carry out activities related to the exchanging of best practices and the setting up of coordinated measures to foster technological exchanges and innovation, collaborations between companies, organizations and institutions of France and India in the fields of Aeronautics, Biotechnology and Automation.
Industry-Academia Research & Development Programme (IARDP)
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The programme was initiated in 2002 to promote collaborative research involving industry and academic partners of both the countries. The programme aims at bringing private industries, public institutions and government agencies under one platform. Presently six I-A projects are executing under CEFIPRA.
Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC)
The Centre was established in 2011, jointly by DST, GoI, New Delhi and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany and is registered as a Society under Societies Registration Act. The Centre was created to promote innovation through Indo-German R&D networking under PPP mode. It aims at catalysing innovative R&D projects by exploiting R&D strength of research and academic institutes and industries from both India and Germany through its flagship programme ‘2+2 Mode of Partnership’. Presently both Indian and German governments contribute financially each year for funding collaborative R&D through IGSTC. Under IGSTC, 7 projects have been completed under PPP mode.
Major academic Indian partners for ongoing projects are IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, ICT Mumbai, Manipal University, VIT University, AIIMS, Ahmedabad University, etc., major Indian research institute as partners are CSIR, CMERI etc. and major Indian private sector players actively participating in research projects are Thermax, Tech Mahindra, Dhvani Research, Bharat Forge, TCS etc. In total, IGSTC has supported 76 Indian partners from academia and industry. The German counterparts are from research institutes such as Fraunhofer Institutes, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Institute of Biomateral Science and Industry players such as eXcorLab GmbH, GenXPro GmbH, Seidel and many others.
Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF)
This forum was established as an autonomous not-for-profit society in 2000 to promote Indo-US collaborations in the fields of science, engineering, technology and biomedical by promoting interaction among government, industry, academia and research institutes. It is co-governed and co-funded by Indian and US governments. The forum strongly aims at encouraging PPP and techno-entrepreneurship to promote technological synergy.
Major Programmes of IUSSTF Promoting Bilateral Innovation
United States-India Science & Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF)
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Aims to fund academic or industry or start-ups as partners in India and US to undertake joint US-India entrepreneurial activities with a focus to commercialize technologies having societal impact.
PACEsetter Fund
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Aims to support and accelerate the commercialization of innovative clean energy access by small businesses to develop and test innovative products. The fund is co-sponsored by Indian and USA governments by providing ₹50 Cr as an early stage grant to enterprises to develop clean energy solutions.
The India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP)
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This programme was jointly launched by DST, GoI, New Delhi; Lockheed Martin Cooperation, USA; IUSSTF, New Delhi; FICCI, New Delhi; Stanford Graduate School of Business, TiE Silicon Valley and the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 as a PPP programme to promote innovation pipeline in the Indian ecosystem by financially supporting at ideation, innovation and acceleration phase. New partners such as Tata Trust; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and IIT Bombay have joined this programme. Around 50 technologies each year have been successfully generated under this funding support.
Public-Private Virtual Networked Centers
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IUSSTF has created a platform of virtual network Centres to enable Indian and American academicians, industry personals and researchers to carry out joint R&D activities. Funding is granted for a period of two years up to ₹50 Lakhs.
Research Initiative for Real-time River Water and Air Quality Monitoring
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It is a collaborative initiative of DST, GoI, New Delhi and Intel India, administered by IUSSTF. The programme tends to support the development of technologies in the field of communication and sensing of large scale data by sensor nodes on a real-time basis.