IIT-B showcases technologies to industry

Updated on: Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Mumbai: The Indian Institute of Technology,(IIT-B) showcased its cutting edge technologies to 100 companies across the country at an event.

The programme, 'Techconnect 2009', was organised over the weekend and was aimed at bringing out benefits of research from laboratories to the common man. It was held under the banner of 'Industry Day'.

The industry's involvement is needed for transfer of modern technologies and their use for the common good, Krithi Ramamritham,said Dean for Research and Development, IIT-B.

Most Western universities and even those in Japan and South Korea organise dissemination programmes annually, Ramamritham said.

The event was organised by the Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre (IRCC) of the institute with a special focus on small and medium scale enterprises.

Large companies are aware of the value of technology coming out of IIT-B. It is the small and medium enterprises that we want to target with this event, Ramamritham said.

Industry reviewed research projects and prototypes and we expect to explore opportunities to commercialise IIT-B's technologies, Ramamritham said.

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