Chandigarh,sunita shastri: The Scientists from DST-Centre for Policy Research (CPR) at Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh has conducted a study on patents commercialization profile of 904 institutions comprising of Indian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and National Research Laboratories (NRLs) of India. The study has been authored by Scientist-C, Mamta Bhardwaj and Scientific Officer, Amandeep Sandhu.
The study is first of its kind in the country in which patent commercialization of HEIs and NRLs has been examined, was published in Current Science on January 10, 2021. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an autonomous and publically funded research organization, leads the chart in with a total of 863 patents granted (in India only) and has a share of 44% of the total granted patents for the period 2010–17. The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), dedicated to research for the military under the Ministry of Defence, is at the second position with 308 patents followed by an Institution of National Importance (INI), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, with 76 patents (in figure below).
