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Bengal to get innovation complex for pharma, clean energy- 18-Sep-2011
Kolkata: West Bengal will soon become a hub for research on drugs and clean energy technologies in the country, with the National Innovation Council and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research mooting the establishment of a 'cluster innovation centre' at Baruipur, near Kolkata.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will set up a few innovation complexes in a few cities and West Bengal will get one at Baruipur, near Kolkata, which will focus on research and commercialisation of technologies' CSIR Director General Samir K Brahmachari told.
This is in line with the partnership formed between the NIC and CSIR to jointly promote cluster innovation centres as part of the NIC's 'Industry and University Innovation Clusters' initiative. The innovation complex would focus on drugs and therapeutics; clean energy, including technologies for zero emission; innovative products and processes; and biomedical applications, including bio-therapeutics.
The complex would come up on a 22-acre plot at Baruipur, in South 24 Parganas district, which would become a hub for technology innovation and would connect with clusters for promotion of technology companies. Brahmachari said there was a need to promote a regional innovation council in West Bengal.
He said in the near future, a regional innovation council would be formed under the National Innovation Council to promote local innovation. 'The government is also open to helping with seed capital for innovation companies to commercialise current and future CSIR technologies' Brahmachari said.
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