Technology Division of CII aims to play an active role in the CII's Mission on Sustainable Growth. CII initiated its activities in the area of technology from the first quarter of the 90s (during early 90s). Today technology is one of the thrust areas of CII along with other key areas such as Quality, Energy and Environment etc. The primary focus is to bring Technology to Centre stage and make these aspects as a movement in the Indian Industry. Technology Division is equipped with highly experienced professionals & networked with a large number of professional Institutions and experts in the country and overseas. The Technology Division works in tandem with Indian industry to develop & promote innovative technologies and to establish the right linkages for successful technology absorption and commercialisation.
Key Initiatives / Information
The Global Innovation & Technology Alliance (GITA), in collaboration with the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, Government of Alberta, Canada, Government of Ontario, Canada and International Technology Partnerships Canada (ISTPCanada) are pleased to invite you to participate in the India-Canada Matchmaking Mission in Water Technologies on 8 – 10 April 2013 in New Delhi, India.
The Indian capital goods sector, the core of the manufacturing sector, requires attention to technology, SME support, skill development, and import substitution to meet the targets of the National Manufacturing Policy. This article by Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII appeared in The Financial Express on 13 November 2012.
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) invites proposals from Indian Companies under the SBIRI Scheme for support of early stage, pre proof-of-concept research & development of research leads towards commercialization in all fields of biotechnology. For more information visit us at http://www.dbtindia.nic.in or http://www.sbiri.nic.in.
In its pre-Budget recommendations, CII has stressed that to revive growth momentum, new avenues must be devised to augment investment. Private investments need to be incentivised in critical areas of the economy. A reforms oriented budget is needed to instill confidence among investors.
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) invites proposals from Indian Companies under the SBIRI Scheme for support of early stage, pre proof-of-concept research & development of research leads towards commercialization in all fields of biotechnology. For more information visit us at http://www.dbtindia.nic.in or http://www.sbiri.nic.in.
First communication from the CII President to all members after assuming the office of CII, President.
The Global Innovation & Technology Alliance is a joint initiative of CII and the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, to promote and facilitate international industrial R&D collaborations, to boost the Innovation Ecosystem in the country.
Measuringand Addressingthe Costof 21st CenturyCrime – By Anand Desai
DAIMLER, Combating Counterfeit Parts by Anubhav Jain
Counterfeiting and Piracy by Rajendra Bhurat
Software and Content Monetization
Technology – Current State and Trends by Rana Gupta
Supply chain integrity – Fighting counterfeiting in healthcare by Ravi Mathur
Anti-Counterfeiting & Piracy Measuring & Addressing The Cost of The 21st Century Crime & “Cancer” by Jack Chang
CII Jharkhand Council has been making concerted efforts in the direction of bringing growth and development in the State right from its inception in the year 2000. The Council facilitated Department of Industries, Govt. of Jharkhand in coming up with an Industrial Policy of Jharkhand in the year 2001. The Council also partnered Govt. in successfully organizing Udyog Mela 2007 in Ranchi & facilitating Jharkhand pavilion in IITF 2008(India international Trade Fair) at New Delhi. In order to enhance the competitiveness of industry members, CII Jharkhand Council continues to organise number of training programmes, major Conferences, seminars, workshops on Manufacturing, Agro & Food Processing, Environment, Mining & Coal, Social Development & Community Affairs, Behavioral Skills & Information Technology, as well as interactions with key Govt. Officials at Ranchi ,Jamshedpur and also at Bokaro. The Council recently called on the Hon’ble Chief Minister & Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand and presented them with CII Vision document : Jharkhand @ 2022, a Sustainable Vision document encompassing hope & aspiration of the people of Jharkhand. The insight of the document is aimed at enabling the key decision makers to plan and implement findings at the grass root level, leading to sustained growth and development of the State.
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) invites proposals from Biotech Industries/ Entrepreneurs for innovative, early stage, proof-of-concept research & development and commercialization of available innovative research leads in all areas of biotechnology under the scheme “Small Business Innovation Research Initiative (SBIRI)”. Please visit our website at http://www.dbtindia.nic.in or http://www.sbiri.nic.in for other details of the scheme.
CII’s National Committee on Design is the reference point in India on Design and works closely with the stakeholders for strategizing and implementing all the Design initiatives in the country.
CII’s National Committee on Technology was constituted way back in early nineties and the Chairman of CII’s first National Committee on Technology was Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. CII works in various areas like technology promotion, facilitating Industrial R&D and Industry’s investment in R&D, facilitating partnership developments for technology/R&D collaborations, capacity building and facilitating technology exports, providing advisory and technical services for implementing technology projects benefiting society and common man all towards creating innovation eco-system in the country and many more.
A not-for-profit society (under establishment) jointly promoted by CII and the Department of Science & Technology for implementing India’s designated bilateral Industrial R&D fund for supporting industries in R&D and International Partnership Development Activities.
TEDO, a unique Public – Private Partnership project between Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Supported by Ministry of Commerce to enhance market linked technology competitiveness of the Indian Industry. The main objective is to promote Indian Technical Know How, Technology Intensive Products /Services/Projects in global markets. Presently TEDO is focusing in Capability building to enhance export competitiveness & Facilitating Market Access for 120 Indian SME’s in six focus sectors. (Automotive Components, Process Plant and Machinery, Casting and Forging, Engineering Services, Agro and Food Processing and Dies and Mould).
Confederation of Indian Industry in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India has been organizing the annual flagship event “Technology Summit and Technology Platform” annually with an objective to promote technology tie-ups, joint ventures and investments to and from the “Partner Countries”. This has developed into the largest technology event in the country with widespread participation from the highest level of Government, Industry and Academia from both India and “Partner Country”. The Partner Country of each Summit is decided in consultation with the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and is based on interest between the two countries to strengthen bilateral S&T cooperation and high technology trade. The two governments also announce joint initiatives during the Summit.
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CII News Update
The Annual General Meeting and National Conference of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) will be held on 3rd and 4th April 2013 at New Delhi.
The two-day event would have a galaxy of speakers deliberating on a range of issues that are of importance to India and Indian Industry at the presen.....
New Delhi 13th March, “The G-20 countries should look for ways for recapitalizing Multilateral Development Banks. At present the World Bank lending for infrastructure development is too miniscule,” said Dr, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India, at CII organised Ind.....
Confederation of Indian Industry and Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announced that a legal conference titled ‘Technology to Enable Speedy and Accessible Justice’ would take place in New Delhi on Saturday, 12 January 2013.
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Kolkata, Jan 3: In a first of its kind public-private partnership—called Prime Minister’s Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research—between the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to promote industry-relevant research in academia and to increase i.....
"Innovation & Technology is the key driver for the growth of MSME''''''''s. An increasing share of the market value of young and innovative MSMEs appears to be derived in many cases from their intellectual assets. In today''''''''s competitive market the use and protection of these intellectual ass.....
Government set to resolve long standing issues including amendment of IBR
Mr. T.S.G. Narayannen, Secretary, Central Boiler Board, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion while speaking at the “Seminar on Boiler Industry: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities” organized by Confedera.....
Korea and India draws its partnership from the ancient days. The life of Gautam Buddha influences the life and thought of the people of the two Countries and provides strong cultural linkages said Mr. Sudini Jaipal Reddy, Minister for Ministry of Science & Technology & Minister of Earth Science, at.....
There is lot of optimism surrounding Public Private Partnership (PPP) in India. Used judiciously and fitted to local circumstances they have the potential to bring effective solution to society. With this background, CII in partnership with DST & GITA organized a National Technology summit at India.....
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Consulting / Advisory Services
CII established this Centre in 1999 with the support of Govt. of AP, TIFAC (Under DST Govt. of India).CII –APTDC is a Pioneer in the Country for establishing Public PrivatePartnership for Technology & Intellectual Property Services.
Six Sigma approach is being widely used all over the world for reduction in process variation and waste elimination.
Total Productive Maintenance, shortly termed as TPM, is the concept originated and developed by Japan Institute of plant Maintenance (JIPM) Tokyo, since late sixties. JIPM-TPM is the key for the operational excellence for many Japanese companies.
The key to ensure sustainable Quality up gradation and continuous improvement in an Organization is the willingness of its employees to adapt to changing paradigms.
Increased global competition has forced companies to think aggressively about effective Cost Management. A low cost high quality product has become an object of desire, to gain a competitive edge. It is essential that cost management addresses not just individual activities or cost centres but the e
CII Awards & Recognitions
The CII Cotton Awards were instituted by CII. Vardhman & few other textile companies supported the silver salvars/mementos which were presented to the selected farmers for achieving high yield in cotton production alongwith some cash awards. The jury comprised of a few technical people from industry and PAU.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (SR) through its Education Sub-Committee, launched the first edition of Innovator 2009 on 12th February 2010 at Hotel Le Royal Meridien, Chennai. The Sub Committee initiated this unique event this year under the Chairmanship of Dr R Mahadevan, Group Technology Director, India Pistons Ltd. Innovator is a competition aimed at identifying and showcasing the innovative ideas of college students from Technical, Business and Social streams in the Southern Region. It is a three stage project centric contest designed to test the technical/business and social concepts, presentation and creative skills of the participants.
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Forthcoming Events
- International Workshop on Industry-Academia Collaboration for Greater National Productivity & Competitiveness
New Delhi Delhi India May 23, 2013 To May 24, 2013
- CII- IGBC 2nd Conference on 'Sustainable Development for a Green Goa’
Campal-Panaji Goa India May 30, 2013 To May 31, 2013
- Cost Reduction through SCM for Enhancing Company’s Profitability Market Pull Based Supply Chain Management 5 – 6 June 2013
India Jun 05, 2013 To Jun 06, 2013
- AP-TEC 2013 @ TIRUPATI
CHITTOOR ANDHRA PRADESH India Jun 06, 2013 To Jun 08, 2013
- Competency Based Interviewing Skills 7 - 8 June 2013
India Jun 07, 2013 To Jun 08, 2013
- NCD Summit 2013
New Delhi Delhi India Jun 07, 2013 To Jun 08, 2013
- Proactive Materials Management in Challenging Times 7 - 8 June 2013
India Jun 07, 2013 To Jun 08, 2013
- Reverse Logistics
India Jun 07, 2013
- CII WR Domestic Mission on Manufacturing Excellence - Chennai
Chennai Tamil Nadu India Jun 11, 2013 To Jun 12, 2013
- Honing Negotiation Skills (Procurement) 12 – 13 June 2013
India Jun 12, 2013 To Jun 13, 2013
- Conceive to Commercialise : Accelerate Your New Product Development 14 – 15 June 2013 : Mumbai
India Jun 14, 2013 To Jun 15, 2013
- CII WORKSHOP ON HARD GOALS
Chandigarh UT India Jun 18, 2013
- Workshop on Functional Innovation Methodology for Leaders in Automotive Industry
Chennai Tamil Nadu India Jun 19, 2013
- Influencing through Listening 20 – 21 June 2013
India Jun 20, 2013 To Jun 21, 2013
- 5th edition of MADURAI RUBBER 2013
Madurai Tamil Nadu India Jun 21, 2013
- Business Intelligence Using Excel 21 - 22 June 2013
India Jun 21, 2013 To Jun 22, 2013
- Effective Production Management - Planning & Execution 21- 22 June 2013
India Jun 21, 2013 To Jun 22, 2013
- Labour Laws for Corporate Managers 27 – 28 June 2013
India Jun 27, 2013 To Jun 28, 2013
- FoodCon 2013
Chennai Tamil Nadu India Jun 28, 2013
- Improving Market Share and Financial PerformanceThrough Service Quality Excellence 28 - 29 June 2013
India Jun 28, 2013 To Jun 29, 2013
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