Event
Date- February 02, 2023
Venue- Golden Jubilee Hall, Panjab University, Chandigarh
DPIIT- IPR Chair, Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh in collaboration with DST-Centre for Policy Research (CPR), PU, Chandigarh organised a National Symposium on ‘The Role of Intellectual Property (IP) and Technology Transfer in Academic Sector’ on 02 Feb., 2023. The program aimed to bring together the domain experts, members of academia and key stakeholders on a common platform for understanding the importance of Intellectual Property (IP) and Tech Transfer. Various dignitaries from national level graced the event and enriched the participants with their thoughts. Prof. Kashmir Singh IPR-Chair Professor & Coordinator of DST- CPR at PU, Chandigarh welcomed the Patron Prof. Renu Vig, Honorable, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Chief guest of function Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora, Executive Director, Punjab State Council for Science & Technology (PSCST), Chandigarh and Member Secretary, Punjab Biodiversity Board, Govt. of Punjab and other guests, speakers and participants . Prof. Renu Vig, Honorable, ViceChancellor, in her inaugural address, underlined the flourishing IP ecosystem in Panjab University, Chandigarh. She highlighted the innovation led technology developments in PU and highlighted all the facilities available in PU to achieve the same. Further, on the need to strengthen the bond between Industry and Academia and highlighted various success stories that are elevated to startups and how students of PU are gaining new verticals in new era. Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora, highlighted the various initiative started by PSCST to facilitates technology developments across the state of Punjab. She mentioned the support provided to 600 MSME by PSCST across the state for the benefits of the industry culture in Punjab on clean technology. She mentioned various success stories of PSCST under ‘Mission Innovate Punjab’ to build an Innovation Ecosystem in Punjab such Jaggery production process, rural accelerator program etc. at districts level. She mentioned the Punjab’s state level S&T portal, a great innovative model to look up by all the states. She mentioned the various collaborative program going on with Panjab University, Chandigarh such S&T cluster coming up under the agies of Office of Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA), GoI. The resource persons in the symposium like Prof. Rupinder Tewari, Mentor of DST-Technology Enabling Centre (TEC) and Prof. A C Joshi from Doon University, Dehradun highlighted the need of technology readiness level (TRLs) in education institutions and its crucial role in technology commercialization. Further, worthy speakers Ms. Aprana Jain, Prof. Rupak Chakravarty and Prof. Neeraj Bala and Dr. Neeraj Kumar Singh enriched the participants with their specialized talk on IP and Tech Transfer. Around 100 participants took part in this symposium, including faculty members, researchers, and students from various institutions.
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Glimpses of the Event:
At the dais
Prof. Renu Vig, Honorable, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora, Executive Director, Punjab State Council for Science & Technology (PSCST), Chandigarh and Member Secretary, Punjab Biodiversity Board, Govt. of Punjab. 
(From left to right) Dr. Kashmir Singh, Coordinator, DST- CPR, PU; Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora, Executive Director, Punjab State Council for Science & Technology (PSCST), Chandigarh and Member Secretary, Punjab Biodiversity Board, Govt. of Punjab; Prof. Renu Vig, Honorable, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh; Dr. Rupinder Tewari. 
Participants taking part in the event.
Event details: Awarness Programme on IP
