Partners

The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (PSA’s Office) was set-up in November 1999 by the Cabinet Secretariat, primarily, to:

  • The technologies are developed at seven RuTAG centers established at the following Indian Institutes of Technology’s (IITs) across the country:
  • Evolve polices, strategies and missions for the generation of innovations and support systems for multiple applications,
  • Generate science and technology tasks in critical infrastructure, economic and social sectors in partnership with Government departments, institutions and industry, and
  • Function as the Secretariat to the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet, with the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India as its Chairman.
In discharging the above duties, the PSA’s Office has been actively promoting the implementation of synergy projects in various science and technology areas. Typically, the interventions by the PSA’s Office are made in the following distinct scenarios:
  • Policy and strategy initiatives.
  • R&D activities that do not fall into the business of any single department.
  • R&D activities that involve many departments and need to be synergized.
  • Areas in which there are significant S&T gaps; and
  • Areas in which innovation possibilities are bright for deriving economic value or societal benefit from knowledge generated by research.

The Office endeavors to bring in synergy among the various scientific departments and other ministries in creating an enabling S&T eco-system that encourages innovations across disciplines.  It encourages R&D projects in `advanced high-quality basic research’, and `directed basic research’, as also ‘pre-competitive applied research’ through academia-industry interactions.  The development of specific projects, usually in partnership with other departments, revolves around this basic philosophy. Thus the ‘synergy projects’ of the office are focused to achieve the objectives –

  • Evidence-based studies for policy and strategy initiatives;
  • Development and pilot project efforts that can nucleate or catalyse multi-disciplinary projects or help in networking institutions with common goals;
  • For enhancing national competitiveness; and
  • National security-related technologies.  
These projects are in consonance with national S&T priorities. The projects undertaken by this Office relate to the energy sector, water, automotive, machine tools, electronic hardware, photonics, medical devices, science initiatives in Ayurveda, and rural technologies, etc. Know more: www.psa.gov.in
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI): Established in 1927, FICCI is the largest and oldest apex business organisation in India. Its history is closely interwoven with India's struggle for independence, its industrialization, and its emergence as one of the most rapidly growing global economies. A non-government, not-for-profit organisation, FICCI is the voice of India's business and industry. From influencing policy to encouraging debate, engaging with policy makers and civil society, FICCI articulates the views and concerns of industry.

It serves its members from the Indian private and public corporate sectors and multinational companies, drawing its strength from diverse regional chambers of commerce and industry across states, reaching out to over 2,50,000 companies. FICCI is the rallying point for free enterprises in India. It has empowered Indian businesses, in the changing times, to shore up their competitiveness and enhance their global reach. It has an expanding direct membership of enterprises drawn from large, medium, small and tiny segments of manufacturing, distributive trade and services. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry maintains the lead as the proactive business solution provider through research, interactions at the highest political level and global networking. In the knowledge-driven globalized economy, FICCI stands for quality, competitiveness, transparency, accountability and business-government-civil society partnership to spread ethics-based business practices and to enhance the quality of life of the common people. FICCI provides a platform for networking and consensus building within and across sectors and is the first port of call for Indian industry, policy makers and the international business community. Know more: www.ficci.com


RuTAG Technology Commercialization Programme
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Federation House, Tansen Marg
New Delhi – 110001
E-mail: rutagtechcommercialization@ficci.com