The Government should give around 10 per cent tax exemption to the industries so that they could provide funds to the educational institutions for promoting research and development. The collaboration of university and industry is essential in today’s era, said educationalists in a seminar on ‘Creating markets from research results-initiative for excellence’ at Doon University on Friday.
The seminar was held under aegis of Industries Association of Uttarakhand, State Higher Education department and Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology.
UCOST director general Rajendra Dobhal said that to inculcate scientific temper among the students and promote research and development in the educational institutions, innovation exhibition should be organised in collaboration with academic institutions and industries. He talked on innovation management for economic growth in detail and answered questions put up to him.
While talking on creating a critical mass of technology expertise in Uttarakhand's universities, HNB Garhwal Central University vice chancellor SK Singh said that the educational institutes should lay emphasis on creating atmosphere for research and development.
The IAU president Pankaj Gupta talked on collaboration of academia and industry and laid emphasis on how research and technological inventions done by the students of educational institutions can be used for commercial benefit with the collaboration with industries.
Graphic Era University Vice Chancellor VK Tewari said that industries should come forward for giving two year’s training to the students for developing their capabilities and competitiveness to meet expectations and demands of modern commercial organisations and institutions in different sectors.
IIT Roorkee Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Cell Coordinator Himanshu Joshi talked about the importance of intellectual property management for higher education institutes. There is need of raising awareness and understanding of research in the university environment, he added.