1. UK-India: Science and Innovation Collaboration
Swati Saxena
12 February 2014 I IIT Kanpur
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2. Overview What does the UK offer as a research partner?
What does the UK offer India as a research partner?
Current Indo-UK research collaboration and funding opportunities
How can you work with the UK?
Further information B
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3. What does the UK offer as a research partner?
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4. Concentrated excellence
Highest per capita number of Nobel Laureates in the G8
Most science and maths graduates per year in the EU
Most efficient research base in the G8
Top country for field weighted citation impact
15.9%
11.6%
9.5% of downloads
3.2%
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5. An international partner
International research base:
71.6% of active researchers were internationally mobile in
47.6% of UK papers in 2012 resulted from international collaboration
Significant EU player:
41% of EU FP7 grants to date have had a UK partner
To date, 2nd largest recipient of FP7 money, €3.7bn or 15%
UK Science and Innovation Network (SIN) overseas:
90 staff
based in 42 British offices
across 28 countries/territories
3 International Research Council UK offices:
India, China and US
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6. A nation of innovators “...78 Nobel Prizes in Science and Technology”
Around 20% of the world’s top medicines were developed in Britain
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7. A nation of innovators
“...London’s Tech City is the largest and fastest growing tech cluster in Europe”
In 1990 Sir Tim Berners-Lee implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol client and server via the Internet.
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8. What does the UK offer India as a research partner?
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9. A committed partner
The UK is committed to deepening the Indo-UK partnership...
“…the relationship between India and Britain stronger, wider, and deeper…a relationship that can benefit the world” David Cameron, Bangalore, 2010
On his first overseas trip upon becoming Prime Minister
Commitment to working with India goes right to the top
Want to be India’s partner of choice
... including in Research and Innovation
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10. The UK team in India
Offices across the country:
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11. Benefits of collaboration with the UK
3rd largest number of co-authored papers with India
Indian authored
Indo-UK co-authored
Co-authorship with the UK increases impact of publication
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12. Current India-UK research collaboration
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13. TYPES OF FUNDING BODIES
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14. UK Science & Innovation Network: Activities
Research and Innovation workshops
Links between centres of excellence
Policy advice, collaboration and reporting:
Public engagement and communication
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15. Research Councils UK: RCUK India
Team of 5 based at the British High Commission, New Delhi
Facilitated over £150m of joint research funding with Indian partners
Indian funding partners include:
Department of Science & Technology
Department of Biotechnology
Ministry of Earth Sciences
Indian Council of Medical Research
Department of Atomic Energy
Indian Council of Social Science Research
Example UK-India co funded research projects:
Energy networks
Solar Energy
Biofuels
Farmed animal health
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16. UK India Education And Research Initiative (UKIERI)
Phase
182 UK India partnerships, over 600 institutions, 55 individual awards, 88 travel grants, 40 policy dialogue and networking events, 393 opportunities for British students to visit India and 105 work placements for Indian graduates.
Phase Two
Programme extension agreed in 2010 with joint funding from Indian and UK governments worth approx £5m per year
Programme to support research, innovation and skill development
MoUs agreed with DST and UGC to support institutional partnerships
Opportunities for collaborative work and information exchange
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17. TYPES OF FUNDING AVAILABLE
Travel grants
Fellowships
Networking and workshops
Research grants
Joint centres
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18. Current Funding Opportunities
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19. India-UK Collaborative Industrial Research and Development Programme
Registration closes by 2 April 2014
Co-delivered by GITA on behalf of DST and TSB, UK
Scope – Clean tech and Affordable health care
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
£1 million international prize
Nominations open till14 July 2014
Indians on search and judging panel

20. How can you work with the UK?
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21. The Future
Impact!
Senior officials met in November to set our future of collaboration:
More academia – industry, and industry – industry links
More challenge-orientated funding, such as:
Future Cities
Affordable Healthcare Technologies
Food-water-energy nexus
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22. Just get in touch! How can we help? We can:
Put researchers with complementary expertise in contact
Facilitate funding for travel and workshops to initiate collaboration, subject to availability
Facilitate funding for research and innovation collaboration, within strategic priorities
Just get in touch!
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