Overview
- At an IISF roundtable, the government briefed stakeholders on deploying the corpus via alternate investment funds, development finance institutions, and agencies such as TDB and BIRAC to back market‑ready research.
- The RDI Fund, approved earlier and launched in November, targets high‑impact areas including clean energy, AI, biotechnology, deep‑tech manufacturing, semiconductors and the digital economy.
- Officials invited feedback on scheme design and implementation, positioning the fund to complement ANRF’s basic and frontier research programmes.
- Dr. Jitendra Singh said industry–academia collaboration is now the sole option for growth, urging private participation to turn research into jobs, technologies and real‑world outcomes.
- Industry voices from Reliance and Hindustan Unilever pressed to close the research–industry gap and called for clearer taxes, supportive GCC policy and stronger IP frameworks, as Singh also noted expanding private roles in space, defence and early nuclear participation.