S.Jaipal Reddy says Role of Responsible Innovation must be Understood

He felt a proud to have launched the first eHealth Center in November 2012. Housed in an unused shipping container, it is a unique platform for pursuing the fourth paradigm of science, the data-intensive discovery, while also providing affordable healthcare services to people in need in rural settings, he added.

He also expressed happiness on CSIR setting up the Innovation Complexes and its partnership with National Innovation Council (NInC) to strengthen our MSME clusters - he said these steps have now started showing results.

Shri Reddy said CSIR is pursuing cutting edge science and is advancing knowledge frontiers. The scientific staff of CSIR only constitute about 3-4% of India's scientific manpower but they contribute to 11% of India's scientific outputs. CSIR is granted 90% of US patents granted to any Indian publicly funded R&D organization and has a wide portfolio of patents in its armory. 13.86% of its patents are licensed, a number which is above the global average. Amongst its peers in publicly funded research organizations in the world, CSIR is a leader in terms of filing and securing patents worldwide.

He said CSIR has won the prestigious National Intellectual Property Award 2013, as top R&D institution in Patent. Also, the recognition of CSIR scientists by National Academies is of very high order. In the year 2013, two CSIR scientists received Infosys Foundation Award, out of the seven awarded.

The minister pointed that we should not forget that India still lives in villages. People at the base of economic pyramid need our help to enhance their income and remove drudgery. Expressing satisfaction on that CSIR-800 programme he said we need to develop more and more enabling technologies, innovative products and services for people at the base of the economic pyramid.