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| Dear Mr Naresh Sagar, |
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| Welcome to the October Edition of the UK Science and Innovation Network in India’s Newsletter. In this edition we talk all about the India UK Technology Summit to be held in New Delhi from 7- 9 Nov’16 and a blog on potential UK India collaboration in Industrial Biotechnology. |
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The India UK TECH Summit 2016, India’s largest knowledge and technology conference and exhibition, will be held in New Delhi from 7-9 November 2016.Tech Summit supported by the Government of India and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), provides a platform for promoting technology-intensive trade and investments between the two countries. The relationship between India and the UK is nothing less than unbeatable – the UK is the largest G20 investor in India, whilst India has emerged as the third largest investor in the UK.
The biggest names in UK-India business will be attending, along with thought leaders and opinion-formers, exhibitors and speakers and the three-day event will host 1000 delegates per day, spanning business, government, higher education institutions as well as the media.
Mixing trade expo, thought-leadership and business-to-business conclave, TECH Summit will be a celebration of the unbeatable combination between India and the UK, providing a forum for business, a space for new connections, and a showcase of future technologies.
TECH Summit comprises five inter-related summits, including:
- Technology
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Higher Education
- Design
- Intellectual Property
To know more and register…
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Top Stories 
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Recognised for its world class agricultural research in technologies and science, the UK has the capacity to take a leading role to address world hunger. The UK has 3 of the top 5 global universities, 20% of the workforce in science, over 100 science parks, well established R&D sites for multinational companies such as Syngenta, Zoetis and Bayer, and the world’s best and most complete data-sets relevant to agriculture TECH Summit will see participation from leading innovative British agri-tech companies. Read more..UK and India’s research investments have grown enormously. In 2008, £1m had been invested – today that figure stands at over £200m.The continued excellence of the UK research base and innovation ecosystem makes us perfect partners. Read more..What if you were prescribed treatment based on your genetic makeup, environment and lifestyle? This is already a reality and the practice is called precision medicine or personalised medicine. Essentially, this means your genes determine the treatment you receive. Read more..The UK Science and Innovation Network is running interactive workshops to support Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) in India through a series of workshops across 4-cities who have confirmed interest in this area. These cities are Chennai, Kolkata, Chandigarh and Pune. The aim of this workshop is to share the best practices from established TBI managers, projects, ecosystems, real life approaches to challenges from the UK with Indian stakeholders. The UK delegates from Cambridge CleanTech and Basildon Borough Council will run the workshop. Read more…
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Do you want to keep up to date with all the opportunities funded through the UK’s Newton Fund? Follow this page on Newton Fund
The Chevening Rolls-Royce Science and Innovation Leadership Fellowship (CRISP) is aimed at mid-career professionals with very high potential in the fields of science, innovation, and business from India and Sri Lanka. For more details please visit here..BBSRC call for India partnering awards in
To set up partnership links between UK and overseas laboratories,to promote the exchange of scientists, particularly early career scientists and promote access to facilities. For more details please visit here…
Chevening is the UK government’s international award scheme aimed at developing global leaders since 1983. Funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Office and partner organisations .Chevening offers two types of awards – Chevening Scholarships and Chevening Fellowships. For more details please visit here…DFID has allocated up to £4 million to fund innovation projects in this competition. The aim of this competition is to increase the pace and scale of uptake of agricultural innovation by farmers in developing countries. For more details please visit here..
For a full list of funding opportunities, please check out our monthly summary.
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India-UK TECH Summit , New Delhi 7-9 November 2016
Workshop on Future Manufacturing 21-22 October 2016
Workshop on Advanced Engineering, Pune and New Delhi 9 & 11 November 2016
Workshop on Technology Business Incubator, Chennai 2 2& 23 November 2016
Workshop on Technology Business Incubator, Kolkata 24 & 25 November 2016
Workshop on Technology Business Incubator, Chandigarh 28 & 29 November 2016
Workshop on Technology Business Incubator, Pune 30 November & 1 December 2016
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The SIN team is preparing and planning for TECH Summit with several delegations in the areas of robotics, smart cities, precision agriculture, advanced manufacturing,precision medicine and veterinary sciences.
Stay tuned for more and thanks for reading!
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