4th September, 6:30 pm, V4

IIT KGP
Technology Students’ Gymkhana

Case: Commercialization Orientation of an Academic Institution

Back Ground:
Many developing countries are trying to transform their economy from resource base/low
technology towards technology-based economic growth. This transformation is guided by their
desire to make their economy less dependent on natural resources, and other limiting factors
that inhibit growth. Technology-based economic growth is guided by a number of factors and
successful integration of the factors in an economy. A common characteristic of technology-
based economic is industrial collaboration with knowledge production research institutes and
transformation of the knowledge into innovative products or services. Thus, the interactions
between institutes and industry have become a topic of increasing attention for researchers in
the recent years. Emergence of science-based industries or “high-tech” industries have
motivated research institutes to have a more direct role in the innovation process and market
development. In this context, there is need to examine the potential and scope of institute
research on knowledge production of firms, citations of institute research on firm patents, joint
publications and spin-off formations of new firms by institutes members. Knowledge flow and
especially types of knowledge interaction among various actors have also attracted the attention
of researchers. However, there are only a few studies that have explored institutes-industry
interactions in developing countries.

The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) is a part of the Ministry of Science
and Technology. The primary endeavour of DSIR is to promote research and development by
the industries, support a large cross section of small and medium industrial units to develop
state-of-the art globally competitive technologies of high commercial potential, catalyse faster
commercialization of lab-scale R&D, strengthen industrial consultancy and technology
management capabilities and establish under friendly information network to facilitate scientific
and industrial research in the country. In this context, there are number of plan such as
Technology Promotion, Development and Utilization (TPDU) Programmes, Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR), Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), National Research
Development Corporation (NRDC) and Central Electronics Limited (CEL). The scheme
Technology Promotion, Development and Utilization (TPDU) Programmes has been formulated
by merging the research & Development by Industry (RDI), Programme Aimed at Technological
Self-Reliance (PATSER), Scheme to Enhance the Efficacy of Transfer of Technology (SEETOT)
and APCTT. Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) is among the world's largest
publicly funded R&D organisation. CSIR's pioneering sustained contribution to Science and
Technology human resource development is acclaimed nationally. The institutes use all above
mention funding in order to enhance education system and promote research in institute
ecosystem.
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In this movement, the institute research would get exposure of real picture of industry
application and market development. On the other hand, industries get the potential information
regarding new technology, innovative ideas and laboratory facility to execute any new change
and new technology implementation. Thus, this movement will bring light on the new potential
areas of research for institutes for industrial application and institute research get real life
exposure. This will give reorganization and reward to the institutes as their contribution and
nurturing the industry development which is part of economic development of the nation. There
are numerous benefits justifying the study; that derive from university-industry relationships,
including benefits to society, universities, and industry.

Problem Statement:
- What do you understand by the term “Commercial Orientation of Academic Institution”? Should
we be bothering about that as premier technology institution?

- In an emerging country like India, how the premier academic institutions would shape their
thought process and following up activities to achieve that?

- How the industry would be open and collaborative to accept the reality of scaling up lab scale
research to industry applications?

- What would be the challenges and potential solutions towards this movement?

Rules:

1. Maximum of 20 participants per team are allowed and maximum of 4 of them

are free to speak at the time of presentation.

2. Maximum of 10 mins is allowed to Present the case + 2 mins for the Question Answer
session.

3. Any given quantifiable specification in the timings, if exceeded will result

in the following penalty:
• if exceeded by up to 10%, then 10% of the marks obtained by the team in that
section is deducted.
• if exceeded by up to 20%, then 20% of the marks obtained by the team in the
section is deducted.
• if exceeded by more than 20%, then the team is awarded no marks in that section.

4. Printed copy of the presentation is to be submitted to the judge after the presentation.
5. There must be no communication with the judge until the results are announced. If any
member is found to be doing so, the team will be disqualified.

Judging Criteria:

Background Study & Research - 20

Organizing the plan - 20
Innovation on approaching the solution - 30
Presentation and Q & A session- 30

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