Top Indian labs have earned nothing from tech transfer for years

At least 13% of the laboratories that are part of India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which is the country’s largest research and development organisation, have earned nothing from technology transfer activities since at least 2015, according to data obtained by newspaper The Hindu. Only 11 of the 38 labs that comprise the CSIR responded to the paper’s request for information, and five of them reported that they had received no royalties from technologies commercialised from 2015 to 2020. These five labs include the CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology in Chandigarh, the CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute in Bhopal and the CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum in Dehradun, the paper said.