Ask Me Anything Series | Dr. Yogeswara Rao, Visiting Professor-University of Hyderabad; Former Advisor, Office of Principal Scientific Advisor Govt.of India; Former Head, TNBD Division, CSIR I Aug 27, 2020 | 5.00 PM to 6.00 PM
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The IIT Madras HTIC Medtech Incubator is excited to jointly host the “Ask Me Anything Series“. We will be bringing in experts from different sectors to answer some pertinent questions that matter the most to start-ups. Pen down your questions related to “Creating An Enabling Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Publicly Funded Institutes” for Dr Yogeswara Rao (LinkedIn).
Session Topic: ASK ME ANYTHING ON CREATING AN ENABLING ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM IN PUBLICLY FUNDED INSTITUTES
Speaker: Dr. Yogeswara Rao,Visiting Professor-University of Hyderabad; Former Advisor, Office of Principal Scientific Advisor Govt.of India; Former Head, TNBD Division, CSIR.
Date: 27th Aug, 2020 (Thursday)
Time: 5PM – 6PM
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/cRwJEKG6Uut4DRtYA
Link to join: https://meet.google.com/inf-yrhf-heq
Dr. Yogeswara Rao, Visiting Professor-University of Hyderabad; Former Advisor, Office of Principal Scientific Advisor Govt.of India; Former Head, TNBD Division, CSIR
Dr. D.Yogeswara Rao is currently a visiting professor at University of Hyderabad. He served as Adviser at the office of Principal scientific Adviser to Government of India, New Delhi before superannuation. Previous to that, he served Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for over 25 years in various capacities. Prior to joining CSIR, he worked with industry for over six and half years. He has a Masters’ degree in Chemistry from Andhra University and Ph.D degree from Indian Institute of technology, Bombay in chemistry. Dr. Rao associated with Science, Technology and Innovation for large part of his career, besides encouraging knowledge-based entrepreneurship. His expertise lies in R&D management with interests in R&D Planning, Technology assessment, transfer and entrepreneurship, besides organisational policies. He specializes in building multi-institutional and industry network projects. His current focus is Innovation and entrepreneurship as well as Incubation centres.
He handled many assignments during his long career. Identifying, developing and facilitating implementation of R&D projects involving multiple institutions and industries is an area he excels. This ability coupled with innate leadership qualities has led him to develop two successful R&D programmes at the national level viz. (i) New Millennium Indian Technology leadership Initiative (NMITLI) and (ii) Promotion of R&D in the Drugs and Pharmaceuticals sector. Dr. Rao is an active proponent of the Public-Private-Partnership programmes in R&D domain and implemented several R&D projects in PPP mode. During his long and eventful career, he evolved several enabling organizational policies including the cabinet note on Scientist Entrepreneur scheme that permitted scientists to setup companies while in service. Dr. Rao served on several committees and associated with many policy reports. He also served on the Board of Governors of National Institute of Technology, Warangal and also some companies. Dr. Rao delivered several invited talks.
