Bhubaneswar, April 24 -- Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar awardee Prof. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras has stressed the need for academic institutions to move beyond conventional research frameworks and adopt more dynamic approaches to technology commercialisation.
Addressing a session on "Technology Commercialisation" at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar on Thursday, Prof. Sivaprakasam highlighted that incubation is only one of several pathways for taking technology to the market.
"Technology commercialisation has multiple routes. Incubation is one route, but not necessarily the only one. Co-developing products with industry and technology transfer through licensing are equally importan...