Tata Steel to Set up India Innovation Center for Graphene along with C-MET Thrissur and Digital University Kerala
#TATASteel #GovernmentofKerala #IndiaInnovationCentreofGraphene“This industry-academia partnership on a platform provided by the Govt. through IICG will help take forward the vision of developing breakthrough graphene technologies and enabling a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.” - Debashish Bhattacharjee, Vice President, New Materials Business, Tata Steel
June 2022 : Tata Steel has joined hands with C-MET Thrissur, an autonomous society of MeitY, Govt. of India, and Digital University Kerala to set up a national ‘India Innovation Centre for Graphene’ (IICG), largely funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and the Government of Kerala.
IICG has been envisioned to develop breakthrough graphene technologies and promote translational research with a focus on technologies to develop socially relevant products and applications working along with industry, academia, and startups. Tata Steel will assist the Centre in identifying industrial needs, participating in application development, scaling up, and developing a go-to-market strategy for selected technologies. The Company will play a key role in operationalising the Centre.
Dr Debashish Bhattacharjee, Vice President, New Materials Business, Tata Steel, said: "Tata Steel’s New Materials Business (‘NMB’) division was set up with the vision of making the Company as well the ecosystem future ready by seeding and scaling up businesses in socially-relevant new materials. With Tata Steel’s strong knowledge base in materials and market, investment in materials research and development, and ability to scale businesses, we will be able to quickly translate research ideas to market-ready products. Together with the Digital University of Kerala and C-MET we shall deliver world-class quality products and solutions to discerning customers. This industry-academia partnership on a platform provided by the Govt. through IICG will help take forward the vision of developing breakthrough graphene technologies and enabling a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.”
He further added, “I believe this Center will act as a force multiplier, bringing industry, academia, and start-ups together under a collaborative framework to rapidly bring to market multiple products and solutions exploiting the full potential of Graphene. This endeavor will help promote innovation and entrepreneurship through design challenges, outreach programmes and incubation grants. We are excited about working with this collaborative innovation ecosystem.”
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