Bangalore-Cambridge Innovation Network created
Global technology hotspots Cambridge in the UK and Bangalore in India are combining their immense Intellectual Capital power bases in a new innovation network.
The Bangalore-Cambridge Innovation Network will be officially unveiled in September but Business Weekly understands plans are well advanced for the initial technology and academic collaborations.Cambridge University has been a key driver of the initiative through Vice-Chancellor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cambridge Enterprise CEO, Dr Tony Raven and Shai Vyakarnam – director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Judge Business School.
It was Bangalore software brilliance that gave the United States a global IC edge in the ’80s and ’90s but a whole generation of entrepreneurs decided to return to India to form their own companies. Industrial analysts quipped that B2B now meant ‘Back to Bangalore.’
Not only is the Indian Government keen to model its 2020 knowledge economy on Cambridge but also there are technology synergies that the UK university and partners within Indian science & technology institutes believe can be explored globally for mutual benefit.
The new network and an associated website will be launched in Bangalore on September 13 with a one-day workshop on Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
The new network and an associated website will be launched in Bangalore on September 13 with a one-day workshop on Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
It will be led by Sir Leszek, Professor Padmanabhan Balaram – director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore – plus a representative from the State of Karnataka.
There will be major presentations by representatives involved in the launch plus break-out sessions on biotechnology, entrepreneurship training, innovation & problem-solving, and CleanTech.
