New state research agency invites public support and initiatives
View(s):The National Institute for Research and Development Commercialisation (NIRDC) aimed at the swift commercialisation of national research to drive economic growth, enhance social well-being, and promote environmental sustainability, last week invited applications from the public to support these initiatives.
This unit has been set at the Presidential Secretariat. A public notice in a local newspaper said that investors (both individuals and institutions) interested in providing financial and technical support on various tasks and those willing to serve as technical evaluation committee members could register under the following categories: 1) Agriculture, fisheries, wholesale, food safety and security; 2) Health, education and science; 3) Information technology, communications, engineering, power and energy, transportation and related technologies; 4) Environment, land, water, air and mineral resources; 5) Human development, arts, history, culture and heritage; and 6) Other sectors.
The Technical Committee will consist of a pool of experts selected from across various fields including scientific research, industry, economics, law, arts and local heritage.
Officials said that with the formation of a new government, there has been a surge in interest from both local and international investors eager to invest in Sri Lanka. The NIRDC is vested with matching investors for R&D completed project commercialisation, disseminating scientific knowledge and R&D project updates, and providing gap filling funding for near completed R&D project commercialisation.
The new organisation established by the government is made up of team of scientists, administrators, economists, industrialists, legal and many other subject experts, who have got together to build a government initiative to rapidly commercialise completed or near completed research and developments (R&D) done in Sri Lanka. While a long-term R&D mechanism is initiated at the newly formed Science and Technology ministry, the NIRDC operates at the President’s Secretariat to provide gap filing funding for near completed R&D projects and help investors to match completed R&D projects.
It works under the direction of Prof. Gomika Udugamasooriya, the President’s Senior Advisor on Science and Technology. Prof. Udugamasooriya is affiliated with the University of Houston and the MD Anderson Cancer Research Centre in the US.
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