8.3 Addressed to Industry

i) Industrial sectors must clearly identify areas requiring research backstopping so that theresearch institutions and organizations can better align their operations with the demands of industry. This will result in optimal utilization of R&D resources and avoid duplication of efforts.

ii) Industry must make efforts to increase in-house R&D activities and to be amenable to greater degree to contract research with the R&D institutions it must be more responsive to the drawbacks and constrains in the R&D institutions to suggest the ways and means of remedying them.

iii) Industry should seek to participate in R&D research planning in the areas of its concern, so that social demand is embedded into research projects.

iv) Entrepreneurs as the licensee should constantly apprise the technology transferring agency and the government about the problems and constrains encountered in commercializing technologies. In this respect, the small entrepreneurs could act as a group of consortium. Industry – R&D get-togethers should be arranged periodically to bridge the communication gap.

v) The technology transfer agency and the licensing of technology should not be a one step transaction alike a photographer’s job, but technology transferring agency should endeavor to assist the licensee at all stages of commercialization.

vi) Industrial associations must play greater role in educating entrepreneurs/industrialists as regards promotion of indigenous technologies.

vii) Industries should organize in-plant training programmes in coordination with R&D agencies to develop technical capabilities for absorbing indigenous technologies.