Tag: CSIR

“Make In India” – A creative mentation

“Make in India”, an International marketing campaign was coined and formally launched by our Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on September 25, 2014. It aims to convert India into a Global Manufacturing Hub, generating employment and boosting the economy, by urging both local and foreign …

CCMB signs MoUs with 4 start-ups

Four biology start-up firms have signed up with the city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) to incubate their companies at Innovation Hub (iHUB). The CCMB, a research establishment of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in its efforts to engage with indus…

Start-ups working on medical cannabis research for palliative care

Post the legalisation of industrial hemp in Uttarakhand, start-ups like Bombay Hemp Company (BOHECO) and Orissa based HempCann Solutions are individually working on medical cannabis research for palliative care, aiming to enter the Indian market in next 3 to 4 years. Currently, BOHECO is partneri…

Govt launches training programmes to create skilled manpower

In order to create skilled manpower in specialised sector, the Ministry of Science and Technology is launching training programmes linked to the industry. The training programme will be initiated by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an arm of the ministry, and it will train p…

To boost start-ups, CSIR plans incubation centres in 30 labs

To promote Start ups and commercially exploit technologies developed in its laboratories, India’s premier science institution CSIR has decided to start incubation centres in over 30 different labs across the country. The decision on this was taken at a meeting of the Directors of Council fo…