All Indian Institutes of Technology came together to enhance the overall research and development ecosystem at all deans conclave held in IIT Hyderabad.
Deans and Associate Deans from 21 IITs across the country participated in the first-of-its-kind conclave. The conclave was inaugurated by Prof BS Murty, Director, IITH.
Prof Murty emphasised that the R&D activities at the IITs should focus on innovations, which will result in generating technologies, more employment, startups, and a connection with the industries for their commercialisation. Prof Murty also suggested using this opportunity to ensure the sharing of research infrastructure for their best utilisation. He also mentioned that all IITs should come up with a plan jointly on how to handhold other neighbouring institutes to mentor their faculty for research activities.
The agenda of the conclave was prepared with an aim to share and learn the best institutional practices from each other to facilitate the research and develop Inter-IITs research collaborations to find the solutions to grand challenges of societal importance, said Prof Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Dean (Sponsored Research and Consultancy), IITH, and also the convener of the conclave.
Prof Sharma added that the challenges being faced by the individual researchers and the various Institutes, such as delay of receipt of funds and procedural delays in the procurement of high-end sophisticated research equipment, were also deliberated. All the Deans agreed to work on developing a common portal to showcase the technologies ready for their commercialisation for better industry connection.
