A one-day interaction meeting on fostering RRCAT-Industry Partnership with Technology Transfer & Incubation was organized at convention Centre RRCAT, Indore on 24th August 2022 as a part of DAE Iconic Week celebration under Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. The objective of this interaction meeting was to familiarize the industries with DAE & RRCAT activities and new initiatives towards technology transfer and incubation. Seventy representatives from various start-ups and different industrial sector working on various domains including automobile, metal-processing, manufacturing, food processing, advanced instrumentations, electrical power supply, solar products, farming, jewellery, software development, participated the meeting.
Dr. S V Nakhe, Director RRCAT inagurating interaction meeting with lightening of lamp.
During the inauguration address, Dr. Shankar V Nakhe, Director RRCAT described the recent developments leading to special emphasis on technology transfer and incubation for self-reliance and employment generation through partnership with industries using DAE technologies and expertise. He invited industries to explore the possibilities to work together to deliver right product at right place at right time. Shri Shrikrishna Gupta, Raja Ramanna Fellow presented an overview of DAE contribution for nation building in various domain of life. The special contributions of RRCAT in the field of lasers, accelerators and associated technologies through R&D programmes were highlighted by Shri G. Mundra, Director, Technology Development and Support Group, RRCAT. Dr. C P Paul, Convener Incubation Centre-RRCAT introduced the participants about the DAE Technology Transfer & Incubation Framework. Dr. Paul also spoke about the various partnership opportunities available to the industries through the incubation centre to achieve the mission of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’.
 
Participants’ interaction during the meeting
During open interaction session, the participants actively discussed various issues pertaining to special promotion to start-ups, exclusive licencing of technologies, the effect of irritated food products, and compact energy storage devices.
 
 
 
 
RRCAT laboratory visit by industrial participants
The participants also visited various indigenously developed facility for vacuum brazing facility, Liquid Nitrogen based Refrigeration, laser additive manufacturing, laser cutting and welding, and synchrotron radiation source (Indus-2).
This was the first interaction meeting with industries through incubation centre to foster strong and long-term relationship to utilize the DAE technology and expertise. Industry participants expressed that they will come up with technology transfer and incubation proposals for the development of commercially viable products.
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