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The Dean, Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy, IIT, Kharagpur, P.P. Chakrabarti, the Founder-Chief Executive Officer, Headstrong, Arjun Malhotra, the Director, IIT, Kharagapur, S.K Dube, the Dean, Alumni Affairs, IIT, Kharagpur, Madhusudan Chakarborty, and the Director, IIM, Bangalore, P.G. Apte, at a conference on `Confluence of Technology, Management and Life Sciences' in Bangalore on Thursday. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.
BANGALORE, JAN. 8. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, has drawn up plans to boost sponsored research with large laboratories and academic programmes oriented towards industry requirements, according to some academics from the institute. At a conference on the "Confluence of Technology, Management and Life Sciences" here on Thursday, S.K. Dube, Director of the Institute, said the Kharagpur Institute had been a "sponsored research trail blazer." Revenue of nearly Rs. 60 crores was earned through its sponsored research and industrial consultancy programme in 2003, Dr. Dube said. As the name of the conference suggested, the idea was to create a forum of interaction for the industry, academia, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and the Government. The Kharagpur Institute was looking at expanding its research base by asking the industry, for example the biotechnology sector, what it wanted and then setting up laboratories to deal with those areas of research. This would be done in areas where there was a consensus that a "national potential" existed and that it could be harnessed to show impressive results with focussed investment followed up with equally focussed work, P.P. Chakrabarti, Dean, Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy, said. One programme started three years ago was a three-year Masters in Medical Sciences and Technology, which admitted students who had to have an MBBS degree to begin with. The programme addressed a specific need in the industry that was looking for doctors who also understood areas such as information technology and instrumentation, Dr. Chakrabarti said. The conference was organised by the city chapter of the IIT's alumni association. Among those invited to talk at the conference were Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of the city-based Biocon, and Prakash G. Apte, Director of the Indian Institute of Management.
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