The accelerating spread of new technologies in a competitive
environment world wide makes it imperative that new ideas and technologies are
identified at their source in the scientific world, carried forward by technological
innovation and piloted into commercial production.
NRDC
is India's premier service enterprise whose business is to be the identifier,
the carrier and the pilot of technology transfer. For
over fifty years, NRDC has played a key role in speeding the commercial
applications of research and in effecting the transfer of technology from laboratory to enterprise. NRDC
guides and assists the entrepreneur in executing his technological business plans.
NRDC's
extensive network of national and international contacts in scientific bodies,technology
transfer agencies, industrial and engineering concerns, and venture-capital providers,
has enabled it to act as an effective catalyst translating innovative research
into marketable industrial products, processes and services. NRDC
works in close conjunction with over 200 national R & D laboratories and has
licensed over 2000 technologies for commercial exploitation, of which nearly 1000
are in production with a current annual turnover of about Rs 12,000 million (Rs.
12 billion). Technologies
licensed by NRDC cover areas such as chemicals, drugs and pharmaceuticals,
food, agro-processing, bio-technology, metallurgy, electronics, instrumentation,
building materials, manufacturing techniques and utility processes including pollution
control. NRDC
is the one-stop provider of comprehensive business services, devoted to satisfying
the demanding customer of competitive technology. To this end, NRDC nurtures
new ideas and inventions by providing finance and rewards; ensuring intellectual
property protection; efficiently effecting transfer of know-how from laboratories
to industry; providing access to new technologies from India and abroad;
exporting Indian technological expertise and offering an array of technology consultancy
services. Technology
packages from NRDC include data for the preparation of project reports that
meet the requirements of investment banks and financial institutions.
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