Prabhu Ram at the Technology Commercialization Forum (TCF08), Singapore

The Technology Commercialization Forum 2008: Innovations for a Better World (TCF08), Asia’s premier technology transfer event, brought together academia, researchers, industry professionals, investors and entrepreneurs from November 17-23, 2008 at Singapore. The TCF08 was jointly organized by NUS Enterprise and Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Prabhu Ram, Senior Technology Manager at Sathguru and STEM Program Manager participated in the event. As part of a panel on Mining Intellectual Assets in Asia, Prabhu joined senior professionals from Australia, Taiwan and the United States to consider the opportunities and pitfalls for technology transfer in Asia, and in particular, India. He highlighted the rapidly changing focus of public sector research, and discussed in-depth, how India is emerging as a global hub for high end translational R&D research, and for global partnerships in health, biotechnology and agriculture.  He also discussed some recent developments in India- policy initiatives for incentivizing research, the efforts taken by public sector for technology showcasing, and the increasing public-private partnership models.