Technology Transfer and Commercialisation
by Akhzami, Sheikha Al
ISBN: 9789388027564
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 6495.00
Biblio : xii+176p., figs., color phto., tbls., 25cm
About The Book
Capability for innovation can be developed through a dynamic process involving various stakeholders such as governments, academic and research institutions, and industry with the help of a combination of schemes and programmes for R&D, technology transfer and commercialisation, and for the development of new technology-based industry; backed up by adequate support facilities and suitable institutional mechanisms. The important factors for successful commercialisation of technology include S&T capability, market demand and an agent (an Entrepreneur) which transforms this capability into goods and services, to satisfy such demand.
For the technological self reliance, developing countries should encourage academic and research institutions to undertake activities on technology transfer and commercialisation through appropriate policy decisions with greater flexibility wherever required.
To deliberate on various issues concerning the technology transfer and its commercialisation, the NAM S&T Centre, in partnership with the Pardis Technology Park (PTP), Tehran, Iran organised an International Training Workshop on ‘Commercialisation of Technology’ during 23-26 May 2016 at PTP, which brought the scientists, experts and professionals engaged in R&D, policy making and implementation to a common platform for re-assessing and up-gradation of their skills and sharing views and experiences in the transfer and commercialisation of technology. The Tehran Training Workshop was attended by 26 senior professionals from 20 NAM countries, including Cambodia, Cuba, Ghana, India, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe and the host country Iran.
The present book edited by Ms. Sheikha Al Akhzami, Acting Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman is a follow up of the above Training Workshop and comprises 14 papers by the authors from 9 countries covering several important issues related to commercialisation of technologies.
The book will be useful to policy makers, researchers, academicians and other professionals involved with various aspects of technology development and its commercialisation across the countries with emerging economies.
Table of Contents
Foreword v
Dr. H. Purushotham,
Chairman and Managing Director,
National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), (India)
Preface vii
Ms. Sheikha Al Akhzami
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department
Sultan Qaboos University (Oman)
Introduction ix
Prof. (Dr.) Arun P. Kulshreshtha
Director General, NAM S&T Centre (India)
1. Promoting Renewable Energy Technology Transfer to Ghana 1
Edem C. Bensah (Ghana)
2. Public R&D Funding: The Indian Scenario for Lab to
Market Ecosystem 7
Raj Kumar Sharma (India)
3. Twenty Five Years of Experience in Development and
Commercialisation of Diagnostics and Vaccine for
Aquaculture in India 19
Kalkuli Mariyappa H. Shankar , Prakash Patil, P.B. Abhiman,
Satish Rama Poojary, I.S. Azad, T.M. Anil, Rajreddy Patil, P.P. Suresh Babu,
A.K. Sahoo, D.K. Nayak, Asha Abraham, Krupesh Sharma2, C.V. Mohan,
B.T. Naveen Kumar, B. Adil, S. Prabhugowda, Moumitha Mondal,
and Mohit Kumar Ram (India)
4. Mechanisms for Commercialisation of Technology: The Role of
Technology Business Incubators in the Promotion of
Knowledge-based Industries 41
M. Bandyopadhyay (India)
5. Current Status of Biotechnology Commercialisation in India 55
Ritu Seth (India)
6. Technology Transfer and Commercialisation of
Technologies in Mauritius 65
Mohammad Reza Soodin (Mauritius)
7. Role of Government in Supporting Technology
Commercialisation in Nigeria 79
Danazumi Mohammed Ibrahim (Nigeria)
8. Local Production of Copper Sulphate in Nigeria and its Impact
on School Education System 91
Mercy Sule Bassi, M.O. Omojola, M. Sirajo, H.D. Ibrahim and
S. Gadimoh (Nigeria)
9. Socio-Economic Imperatives of Intellectual Property (IP) Protection
for the Commercialisation of Research and Development (R&D)
Results and Inventions in Nigeria 99
Samuel Ojonimi Eneanya (Nigeria)
10. Research, Innovation and Commercialisation:
Current Status In Pakistan 113
Syed Shahid Hussain and Ahmad Bilal (Pakistan)
11. Palestine Incubators, Challenges and Opportunities 125
Zaki S.S. Afaghani (Palestine)
12. Innovation Ecosystem Development in Sri Lanka 131
R. Wijialudchumi (Sri Lanka)
13. Technology Commercialisation Initiatives in Tanzania 139
Mafunda Dugushilu and Georges Silas Shemdoe (Tanzania)
14. Science, Technology and Knowledge Transfer in Venezuela 157
Anwar Salem Hasmy (Venezuela)
Tehran Resolution on Transfer and Commercialisation of
Technology in Developing Countries 175
