The following Lecture will take place under the auspices of the UPE Lecture series. It is requested that colleagues and students may kindly be urged to participate. The details including Synopsis are given below and in the attached poster.
TITLE: BRIDGING ACADEMIC R&D WITH PRODUCT INNOVATION- A FEW CASE STUDIES AND A WAY FORWARD
SPEAKER: Prof.V.RAMGOPAL RAO, IIT Mumbai
VENUE: School of Life Sciences Auditorium
Date and Time: 1st March 2016, 3:30 PM
Abstract:
India's contribution to the world's R&D and Intellectual Property is steadily increasing. In certain specialized areas such as Nanotechnology, India is among the top 3 countries in the world in terms of research publications and patent filings. Despite the low percentage of GDP spending for R&D in India, Indian researchers have excelled in research output, when measured in terms of the number of research publications. Though these are excellent achievements, the situation is entirely different when one looks at the innovation or the product development potential in the country. For example, India ranks 81 out of 141 countries on the Global Innovation Index (GII) for innovation, and the research undertaken by institutions, whether public or private, has hardly resulted in any major technological innovation of significant commercial value.
Given this scenario, in order to make the Indian research competitive and sustainable in terms of innovation and product development, a multitude of initiatives have recently been contemplated and launched at the national level. In this talk, we will discuss the changing scenario for product innovation in Indian academic institutions, and also see how one can accelerate the culture of product innovation in Indian academic institutions.
Dr. V. Ramgopal Rao is a P. K. Kelkar Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Chief Investigator for the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics project at IIT Bombay. Dr. Rao has over 400 publications in the area of Electron Devices &Nanoelectronics in refereed international journals and conference proceedings and is an inventor on 32 patents (including 13 issued US patents) and patent applications, with many of his patents licensed to industries for commercialization. He is also a co-founder of the company NanoSniff Technologies Pvt. Ltd. at IIT Bombay which is developing products in the area of Nanotechnology.
Prof. Rao's work is recognized with many awards and honors in the country and abroad. He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences in 2005 and the Infosys Prize in 2013. Dr. Rao also received the Swarnajayanti Fellowship award from the Department of Science & Technology, IBM Faculty award, Best Research award from the Intel Asia Academic Forum, Techno-Mentor award from the Indian Semiconductor Association, DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator award, NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee award, J.C.Bose National Fellowship, and the Excellence in Research Award from IIT Bombay. Prof. Rao was an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 2003-2012 for the CMOS Devices and Technology area and currently serves on the Editorial boards of various other international journals. Dr. Rao is a Fellow of the INAE, IASc, NASI and INSA. He is a Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Electron Devices Society and interacts closely with many semiconductor industries including Intel, IBM, Infineon, Applied Materials, Maxim and Texas Instruments.
Dr. Rao is currently the Chairman, IEEE AP/ED Bombay Chapter and Vice-President, Materials Research Society of India. He also served as a Vice-Chairman, IEEE Asia Pacific Regions/Chapters sub-committee during 2007-2013 and was the first elected Chairman for the India section, American Nano Society during 2013-2015.
For more information about Prof. Rao's current research interests and a list of publications visit: http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~rrao/
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