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Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:59 PM

Private fund managers for public R&D money?

The Max Planck Society, one of the largest research organizations in the world, today said it has appointed the European venture fund manager Life Science Partners to manage its new €100 million VC fund. LSP would look after all its life sciences research...
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Monday, May 18, 2009 4:33 PM

Who wants the science ministry???

Like the average hack, i'm curious who's going to take what portfolio in this post-election "yes-we-can" Delhi.. Specifically, what's going to happen in science and technology. Unlike the powerful Home ministry and the remunerative...
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Sunday, March 08, 2009 10:40 AM

Communicating sci/tech/engineering. Whazzat?

Recently, director of a CSIR lab (in Gujarat) asked me: "If I want to hire someone like you, what should I look for - one who has studied science and can write well, or one who writes well but can understand science?" Somewhat flattering as...
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:06 PM

Mumbai calling, Mr Sibal

A few days after the Jaipur blasts this year, (14th May) Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Science and Technology, scrambled a press conference where he told us about a technology that the government had imported from an American company for combating terror...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 5:10 PM

IIT Madras gets to engineering bugs

Synthetic biology, the new, transformative discipline that uses molecular tools and techniques to build biological devices, is finally catching the fancy of Indian engineers. A team from IIT Madras has won two awards at the 9 th International Genetically...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 2:56 PM

At last the search for CSIR directors begins

After years of stop-gap leadership at various institutes, 14 of 37 CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) institutes are likely to get their fulltime directors. CSIR has advertised that it needs "outstanding R&D professionals"...
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