Deadline: 31-Jan-22
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has announced the applications for the Technology Enabling Centres (TEC) Program to create an Ecosystem for Technology Development in the Universities and to provide a platform to network researchers with other Institutes, National laboratories and Industry.
The focus of Centres will be on providing an enabling ecosystem, process and support system for technology development, deployment and diffusion.
The progress of Centres will be monitored every six months for two years and annually later. The Centres will be evaluated after three years for continuity and may be further extended for two years depending upon their performance. The proposed mandate, activities, evaluation criteria will be periodically reviewed & modified while evaluating the performance of TEC to have a dynamic program.
The criteria for selection of a University for establishing TEC may be patent awareness, IP holding, MoU or MoA with industry/clusters, availability of proof of concepts, ready prototypes, technology development/demonstration/deployment, incubator activity or other technology related activity as defined by the Committee.
Funding Information
Initially TECs will be supported for period of three years with a maximum support of upto 1 crore per year
Activities and Outputs
The activities and outputs envisaged through TECs are:
- Mining of Technologies being developed at various labs/institutions in and around University and promoting them to technology commercialization level – Technology translation into commercialization
- Mapping of technology requirements of MSMEs in and around and matching with the expertise available for fruitful collaboration for product realization – Marketable product prototypes and feasibility of scale-up
- Evaluating maturity of the identified Technologies (Products/Process or both) for further development by associating appropriate expertise and facilitating required support – pilot-scale production for market entry
- To carry out the Market Study/Assessment of the Technologies for their Market Potential and Preparing reports etc. and form teams of relevant stakeholders to initiate technology development – Technology solutions
- To recommend the Pilot stage development & co-development of the technologies with established Institutions/Industries to make the Technology as Market ready product to DST – Potential products in the market in near future addressing national need
- Networking with various Technology Development Institutions & Labs for refining of the technologies – Facilitating design and development for commercial prototyping
- Periodic Workshops/Seminars in Collaboration with Industries – skill development through certification courses and suggestion for curriculum upgradation
- To bring out TEC Newsletter & Bulletin on Quarterly basis (outreach, promotion and awareness) covering the activities.
Eligibility Criteria
DST had already established 11 TECs through the first call (Kerala: Amrita University, Odisha: KIIT University, Karnataka: NITTE University, Maharashtra: SP Pune University, Telangana: University of Hyderabad, Uttar Pradesh: Amity University, Tamilnadu: Anna University, Punjab: Punjab University, Chitkara University, Assam: Tezpur University, Mizoram: Mizoram University). DST is now planning to establish 6 to 8 more TECs in Indian Universities through the second call and preference may be given to the states which are not covered under the first call.
For more information, visit https://dst.gov.in/callforproposals/call-proposals-under-dsts-tec-program