The Chairman & Managing Director, NRDC Dr. H. Purushotham said that NRDC has so far licensed patents/technologies to more than 4800 entrepreneurs/ companies in the country in almost all sector of industry. Providing facilitation and techno-financial support for filing patent application in India is one of the important promotional activities of NRDC.

Over the years NRDC has filed more than 1600 patents for innovations from different segment of society including SMEs/ researchers/ scientists/ students and individual inventors and it has sensitised approximately 50,000 SMEs/ researchers/ scientists/ students and individual inventors through conducting IPR workshops/ seminars etc. NRDC also established an Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) with the financial support from MSME at Bangalore.

In today's globally competitive environment, intellectual property is a key driver for building and sustaining competitive advantage and achieving superior performance. IPRs are now being used not only as a tool to protect creativity and generate revenue but also to build strategic alliances for socio-economic and technological growth.
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