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In Fulfilment of Biotechnology Vision 2020

 

Moving Ahead From Strategy- I of 2007

 

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, announced the National Biotechnology Development Strategy in September 2007. Through the strategy, biotechnology was recognized as a sunrise sector that needed sed attention. The cornerstone of the strategy was to on building coherence and connectivity between disciplines and bring together variegated skills across sectors to enhance synergy. The strategy sought to address a number of challenges in terms of R&D; creation of investment capital; technology transfer, absorption and diffusion; intellectual property regime; regulation standards and accreditation; tailor-made human capital for science and innovation and public understanding of biotechnology.

Most of the new initiatives announced in the 2007 Strategy are in place as can be seen in the Annexure.

Further, new and novel institutional mechanisms inspired by the government, but functioning outside it, have been put in place to facilitate a march towards genuine world-class technological competence, biotech innovation and increased national impact. While recognizing several accomplishments, it should be pointed out that one of the major challenges, still requiring attention, is the issue of biotechnology regulation.

 

Meanwhile, boundaries between disciplines once considered distant are now beginning to and as a consequence of their convergence given birth to newer opportunities and challenges. In light of this, it is important to redefine the paradigm of relationship between government, academia, industry and civil society. This is critical for the new era of science-driven, society relevant innovation and entrepreneurship. Newer instruments of connectivity are continuously needed. Scale up and sustainability are important for novel efforts and approaches to make institutional mechanisms of innovation empowering. Human resource policies have to be reshaped to bring in breadth and depth as accelerated growth is propelled by both a highly skilled work force and talented leadership. Our universities need to be redesigned for evolving an ecosystem in which scientists, innovators and future entrepreneurs can be nurtured. University research output must show a quantum jump for us to achieve global competitiveness. Regulation, standard setting and support of infrastructure for all this require attention on priority.

  

 

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