The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) wants to establish itself as one of the world’s premier technology centres.

The Bangalore-based centre is India’s equivalent of America’s MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and responsible for training more than 2,000 of the country’s top brains every year.

A wholly self-contained campus sprawling across 440 acres in Bangalore, the IISc provides full scholarships to all its students - all of whom live on campus - to ensure that they are free to focus on their studies and research.

But the institute has been slower than its US and European rivals in developing opportunities for commercial spin-offs from its more than 1,200 PhDs.

While UK and US universities such as Cambridge, Stanford and MIT have been breeding grounds for ideas that have developed into massive commercial successes, this has not been so in India.

There is certainly no shortage of potential talent: about 400,000 students graduate every year, while universities award another 2.5 million more degrees.

So far, however, little has been done to translate this mass of brainpower into commercial success stories, as Google has done in the US and Cambridge Silicon Radio in the UK.

But the IISc has been intensifying its efforts to change that.

In 1991 the institute established its Society for Innovation and Development (SID), which works in collaboration with large firms to tackle challenging problems in exchange for funding.

SID has helped companies such as Nokia, Microsoft and Intel to solve issues on topics ranging from wireless networking to supply chain optimisation and electronic procurement.

But while the centre has been a success, working with more than 160 companies on nearly 300 projects, the IISc is only beginning to investigate the possibility of building new companies out of the wide-ranging multidisciplinary research that it conducts.

‘We are just starting out,’ said Professor S Mohan, SID’s chief executive. ‘We want to motivate our young people to become entrepreneurs, not just workers.’

To do so, the institute provides selected applicants with funding, along with free office space, legal and business advice and ‘even the tea and coffee’, as they develop a proof of concept and take it to market. Third parties such as Ernst & Young also contribute, providing free advice on how to put together business plans.

Interested students must submit a proposal with their ideas to an independent committee that selects the most promising candidates. In exchange, any related patents are held in the name of both the company and IISc.

Mohan says the institute will encourage its startups to publish their research in academic journals, but will not push them if they wish to keep their intellectual property secret.

In an effort to promote research activities in the field of renewable energy in the country, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (cstep), Bangalore and SSN institutions Chennai. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA, is also a partner in the initiative, management and technical support.

The cooperation is based on the model of success in research, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and CMU. The efforts of the NSS and aims cstep one of the first three years of research, which is based in Bangalore and Chennai, cultivating and researchers are calling Nobel of the situation.

The declaration of intent was signed by Shiv Nadar, CEO and founder, HCL Technologies, on behalf of institutions and SSN VS Arunachalam, former Chief Scientific Adviser, Minister-President of India and Director Division Organization for the Defence Research Development (DRDO).

Also present at the occasion was Raj Reddy, a researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, robotics and human-machine interaction within the CMU, N Balakrishnan, Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore , And R Natarajan, former chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and former director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai.

Terming the tie-up effort to improve the SSN, an academic research institution, said Nadar, cstep is that the management, conceptual framework and policy advice, while the NSS Research Centre (SRC) should commitment to develop technologies and selected research on the next level.

On the formation of the Research Advisory Council (RAC) SSN, Nadar said: “institutions in the developed nations have inspired and supported research of a culture. In India, we too have research to promote the work of national development. It is indifferent like many engineers, we have produced, but as many patents and we like many intellectuals, we have produced. It is an effort towards that goal from 10 years and now we dream of a Nobel Prize for this initiative. ”

After Arunachalam, sustainable energy, it was found that the priority for research in the cstep would be modeling, calculation and analysis of economic and laboratory research will be carried out in src.

With regard to funding models, Nadar said: “If we want first of all the scholarship program, we had nothing, but we have succeeded. (SSN Trust in 2006, had paid RS 4 crore scholarships to students needy and deserving). furthermore, this initiative is an important stage and we are going to generate resources. In India, this is not the non-availability of funds, but the amount of funds is available and is unused, what is relevant. There are universities in China and Japan, who are ready to finance and work together. We need only to open.

BOSTON, March 14 / PRNewswire / - Twelve leaders of the business schools around the world come to Boston for the first annual international strategy Technology Business Case Competition, March 30 At 1 April 2006. Hosted by Boston University School of Management, The Motorola Foundation and Novell are sponsoring this event with a total premium of $ 45000 directly on students of the winning team. Students have 24 hours to the establishment of a case that addresses problems in the general theme of “mobility transparent.”

The eight USA and four non-American business schools are competing at the Boston University School of Management, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, London Business School; Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin; Queens School of Business (Canada), Seoul National University (Korea); Graduate School of Business at Stanford University; Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Each school sends four students. The winning schools receive trophies, and the first place team members are awarded $ 25000, the second team in the split-$ 15000; third place team members share $ 5000 Twelve industry leaders , Hear and pass judgement on the 12 conferences for the determination of the first four places. And the leaders of Motorola, Novell, the last four teams and determine the winners. Motorola CEO Edward J. Zander, (Boston University School of Management Class of 1975, doctorate honoris causa in 2005) is the price.

“This unique international competition focuses on the critical role of technology in the economy at all levels. It is essential for future leaders is to be in technology for the deployment and exploitation as well as strategic advantage, “said Louis E. Lataif, Dean, Boston University School of Management. The contest offers students exposure to highly placed technology and telecommunications leaders. ”

“The competition was organized by the Boston University School of Management MBA students for students of the world’s leading business schools, that the importance of technology in the economy of decision-making,” said Rob Eckhart, MS-2006 MBA, Director, in the case of competition Organizing Committee. “We look forward to your visit and against competitors highly motivated students from the prestigious school will accept our invitations.

About the Boston University School of Management

Was founded the College of Business Administration in 1913, Boston University School of Management as a guide for owners and networks of time, emphasizing the fusion of art, science and technology the company. The school prepares holistic approach is the next generation of leaders for one world, that values such as managing a system of interdependence of functions, decisions, people and technologies. It is the world leader in one of MS-MBA programme, a double rigorous conclusion and the next generation of fixing an MBA management training with traditional know-how in the field of technology ‘ information, the conversion of all holdings. The school also offers a full range of Undergraduate and Graduate Management curricula and Executive Education.

Pune: Real Estate Development and Management is hot as a career with the National Institute of Construction and Research (Nicmar) purchase of a strategy Tie-up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT) to provide an educational program.
The year of a degree course at a distance, Real Estate Development and Management REDM), are offered during the year, aimed at greater professionalism in this area.
“Even if we started, of course, we are going in full swing after the tie-up,” the Director General Nicmar NC Vaid said, while in an interview with this newspaper.
Vaid, who was in town to participate in the construction to take a Daylong, already has two to three rounds of talks with experts from MIT, in this regard.
“MIT is best placed to succeed in the new economy of information technology, flexibility and global trade,” he said, adding that the tieup of a clear edge on users of the course.
Nicmar is the only training institute for management in Asia, which specializes in management in the construction sector and infrastructure development and campus in Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad and study centres in Mumbai, Bangalore, Kathmandu and Dubai.
Vaid said the fundamental objective is to train real estate developer in the Facility Manager, the integration of operating principles of economics, architecture and engineering and, most importantly, the main behaviour.
Nicmar director Rajiv Nehru, said the course is particularly important with the government of opening up foreign direct investment in real estate.
After Nehru, the course includes chapters on specific systems, urban management, legal issues in tangible development, project development and testing, land, real estate and property management.
“Real Estate has become an important economic sector in the country. Not only many houses and diversified industrial enterprises in these cases, but it has emerged as a major source of the strength of attraction for foreign investors “Kumar Gera, President of the Association of federal property developers India said.
DSK chairman of the group, DS Kulkarni, said the course will not only the construction sector equipment managers trained, but would also contribute, businesses, better marketing of their products.
“Real Estate, a paradigm shift in recent years, especially with the entry of foreign players,” he said, and stresses the importance of training, according to him was a concept alien to recently.
Admission to the program are offered twice a year in the months April and September. The promotion of the period, as he said, is a graduate in each branch of the Engineering / Architecture / quantity, surveying or chartered accountant / MBA / M. Coms with at least two years of professional experience in the construction sector.
In addition, candidates with an engineering degree awarded by a public authority board technical training and two years’ professional experience on construction sites are also for the course.

Kozhikode, FEB. 28 `Tathva-2004 ‘, the annual All-Festival of India technique, had a launch ceremony on the campus of National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NITC) Chathamangalam, near here, today, hui.

The new director of the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K), Krishna Kumar, inaugurated the Festival of New Calendar Complex.

Speaking on the occasion, Professor Krishna Kumar said that to meet the challenges of global competition on the domestic market, it was a unique design with local content. “ The local content is to function as competitive edge research. No multinational companies can compete with Lijjad Pappad because of its high local content.”

The problem of students, who came from different parts of the country to participate in competitions, he taught not to lose sight of the prospects of the project design, as part of the competition. “ You should not forget that Nike shoes was only a project by a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA after graduating, students read the draft Nike to a world leader among brands of shoes in 20 years.”

R. Ravindran Nair, Dean (PG & Research Studies), NITC, said NITC was the only NIT Rs.50 crores has been sanctioned for a period of five years for companies, the development of the World Bank. As long as 62 higher education institutions, including IIT, Chennai, and Nits in Jaipur, Bhopal, Surathkal, Jamshedpur Warrangal and participate in the fourth edition of “Tathva.” Altogether, 510 participants are competing in different events in the three day festival. An amount of Rs.2 lakhs, a total budget of Rs 4.5 lakhs has been allotted for the distribution of fund prices. The events include `Spardha” (paper presentation), `Prayoga” (competition), `Prashnottara” (Quizzing events) and “Doctrine” (seminars). Unique competitions such as debugging and structural consideration of the establishment of creativity and know-how among the participants. Workshops and seminars will be organised in collaboration with the Festival.

A spirit mathematical capture workshop, on the basis of “fractal” Vinod Kumar and a management workshop by the team manager of the Front Line Private Limited, SRNair were held today. He did it in the workshop on “Need for management and inter-personal relations,” said Nair effects of “emotional intelligence” of technology and financial prudence. Workshops in embedded systems and biotechnology in the coming days. An exhibition, which is an attempt, science and technology, the town where men and models developed by students NITC are displayed, is being held in conjunction with the celebration. For most important attractions the exposure of projects such as “Do you know the Unknown”, a document on the garland of two chambers, the decimal value of pi ` ‘writing of it is automatic water washing and mathematics Vedische .

The main projects in architecture revamped festival includes ancient buildings as `Arrachal Kettu in Kannur Palayam and buses in Kozhikode, fits the trends of modern design. Another attraction is a language laboratory with the slogan, “the language of technology fulfills the language technologies”, with authenticity collections of tapes, CDs and interactive software imported from the BBC, London.

Calcutta: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a global centre of excellence and learning, it is tip-toeing his way in Buddha’s Bengal.

In a movement that may redevelopment USA identity as a global force of knowledge, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), everything is set up, forging an alliance with MIT in the areas of research, training and education. The city-centre of excellence based on, it is planned to collaborate with MIT Sloan School of Management, creator of the IIMC in 1961.

It was learned that professors Steven Eppinger and SP Kothari of MIT is scheduled to visit IIMC soon to discuss modalities of cooperation envisaged. For IIMC, the agreement with MIT involve a review of his alma mater.

These two institutes, ink a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a note on what is expected, IIMC Board of Governors at its next session for approval. Both Eppinger and Kothari had earlier visited IIMC between March and July 2006 in collaboration with professors and Gordon Y Billiards Yasheng Huang.

During their visit, the faculty of MIT met a cross section of the Faculty and IIMC Post-Graduate students and doctoral candidates on the possibilities of cooperation between the two institutions. IIMC was the first institute nationally by the governments of the European Union in 1961, in collaboration with Alfred P Sloan School of Management, MIT and with government support, the Ford Foundation and Indian industry.

Disclosure of the nature and extent of cooperation between MIT and IIMC, the sources above, it is likely for students and teachers exchange programmes, development programs, internship opportunities, frame training, research center IIMC, education transfer among others.

It is felt that the proposed tie-up between the two is not only the strengthening of the mark IIMC international, but also make it more attractive to attract teachers and students. Both IIMC and MIT, it is anticipated that the possibilities of setting up an exchange program for students, both students of MBA and doctoral students.

Sources said IIMC in the process of creating an Alumni Foundation channelise funds to help its former offered by a large number of activities. One of them is without doubt be used to finance the MIT Sloan-IIMC cooperation programme. In addition to the efforts plans are under way, approach the ministry for the development of human resources for funding.

AHMEDABAD: The Science and Technology of the university, it is proposed by the Reliance Group, is one of the transactions that can be fully in the education sector on the Vibrant Gujarat Business Summit.

The R-250 crore university near Rajkot have tie-ups with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two other projects to set up schools are also on the agenda of the Summit. Accordingly, Rs 300 crore value of the investment could come to the state in the form of education projects.

Reliance If the proposal is given the go-ahead, it is the third establishment, by members of the group in Gujarat. “We are still considering the proposal and discussed it in detail with officials of the company during the summit,” Secretary of State Education P. Paneervel

The company also proposed the establishment of the University of more than 200 hectares of land and offers both Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Course, with a view of the lack of specialists in science and technology programmes in the State. Porters are very interested to begin classes from June 2006.

Paneervel adds: “We have a proposal to create a school of Jamnagar US-based NRI and the rest from Gandhinagar in a NRI residing in the United Kingdom. We consider the two proposals.” But some declarations of intent for the creation of projects signed by the government in recent years, the summit is still to come.

The government has reached an agreement with Nirma University of Technology to create a Navy Engineering College, at a cost of Rs 30 crore and Adana group for the establishment of an institute of port management believes to Rs 30 crore

Both projects are still hanging fire. Two letters of intent were Sundev Group for the establishment of a national institute for the management of Rs 60 crore and yoga University linked to Rs 20 crore, but the work on the projects have not yet begun. This year the government took full agenda.What of Education proposes to do is to promote industrial, liaison programs in which industry, sign an agreement with the government, a Polytechnic.

“We want to model Pollachi TN, where there is a cluster of UAS, the courses run on the needs of the industry. Once the required number of students are trained for the industry, of course, the liquidation. then another course Presented with the needs of industry at the moment, “says Paneervel.

Pune: real estate development and management with a hot career at the National Institute of Construction Management and Research (Nicmar) in a strategic tie-up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT) offers an educational program.
The year of a degree course, Real Estate Development and Management REDM) in the current year, which is more professional in this field.
“Even though we started, of course, we are going full swing, after the tie-up” Nicmar NC, but the CEO said during an interview with this newspaper.
But that was in the city to participate in building one day meet, already has two or three rounds of negotiations have been prepared by experts from MIT, in this regard.
“MIT is in the best position to succeed in the new economy, information technology, flexibility and world trade,” he said, adding that one is clear tieup on board, customers of the course.
Nicmar is the only institute of management training in Asia, specializing in construction management and development of the infrastructure and campus in Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad and study centres in Mumbai, Bangalore, Kathmandu and Dubai .
But said that the basic objective is the formation of real estate developers in the Facility Management, which integrates the principles of business administration, architecture and engineering and, above all, the main behaviour .
Nicmar director Rajiv Nehru, said the course is particularly important with the government the opening of foreign direct investment in real estate.
After Nehru, which, of course, specializes in the chapter on systems of urban management, legal issues in fixed assets development, project development and evaluation, land, buildings and property management.
“Real Estate has become an important economic sector in the country.” Not only will many houses and industrial diversification of businesses in these cases, but it proved to be an important source of the force of attraction for foreign investors “, Kumar Gera, President of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers From India has spoken.
DSK-chairman of the group, DS Kulkarni, said the course will not only be the construction sector, with a qualified staff, but also contribute to society, a better marketing their products.
“Real Estate, a paradigm shift in recent years with the entry of foreign players,” he said and emphasized the importance of training, which was unrelated to the design until recently.
The inclusion in the program is offered twice a year during the months of April and September. The promotion, as he said, is a graduate in each branch of the Engineering / Architecture / quantity surveying or chartered accountant and an MBA, Mr. Coms with at least two years of professional experience in the construction industry.
In addition, candidates with a degree in mechanical engineering, the board of a State to technical and vocational training of two years of experience in construction sites is also used for the course.

MUMBAI: In a period of a few months, students in small technical institutions in the rural areas of Maharashtra technology with a great idea can be tie-up with a financial advisor in a European company starting a business.

A group of students from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay (IITB), the development of a Web-Forum, through which human beings in all parts of the world to share ideas, research partners with different skills interested in the same idea, search tutelage of some of the best Faculty countries who are in contact with potential donors the money - all for free.

For the past eight years, IITB’s cell entrepreneurship, or e-mail to cell, it was inspiring entrepreneurial spirit to thousands of young heads through the competition plan Business, conferences and workshops.

“The great resonance, we are in contact with humans and many other extension of the e-Cell resource for students from small schools,” says Abhishek Mohta, a second year, students Mechanical and e-cell member.

As a first step, the e-IITB cell has a network of 14 e-smooth functioning of the cells of higher education throughout the country - the five IITs five IIMs; Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Navi Mumbai, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli.

The network is a student, we say to NITIE, with a technological idea, and link with a student, say IIM Ahmedabad, who believes the idea of management and know-how and offer them the possibility of creating Together of a company, while still in school.

A student can be similar to engineering, to seek tutoring IIM professor. IITB students of the initiative, leaders of the contact network and assist students and other venture capitalists potential donors.

“We in an interview with e-cells, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford in the United States, we have a very positive,” says Abhishek Sharma, a second year student of mechanical engineering.

Since February this year, students work on a web forum, tentatively called the Global Entrepreneurship Network, which allows people, for a brief summary of his ideas and looking for a partner, anywhere in the world.

HOUSTON - Top-Rated International Present universities in the future of the company at A Distinguished Panel of Judges

(March 14, 2006) - Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship hosted the sixth installation of the business plan competition Rice (RBPC), the world’s largest in the world. The 2006 competition is one of the best business meetings in Houston. RBPC recently announced, semi-finalists, who are competing for more than $ 260000 and prices.

The three-day business plan competition, the starting signal for March 30, 2006, organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. Among the best classified, international teams from the University were invited to participate in the competition, the following were considered as semi-finalists:

Babson College, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University Dartmouth Duke University Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Purdue University Rice University San Diego State University Southern Methodist University SP Jain Institute of Management & Research at the University Stanford Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas A & M University of Arizona University of British Columbia, University of California Los Angeles University of Chicago University of Colorado at Boulder University of University of Georgia.