With 1,200+ patents filed; Chandigarh University emerges as leading research-intensive university of India
Chandigarh University ranked first in the country by the Office of Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks, Government of India, for filing highest number patents in a year.
Research and innovation plays a substantial role in the development of any nation and higher education institutions have to emerge as centre of excellence to take the country forward by focusing on the development of next generation products and technologies. In the recently announced New Education Policy by the Government of India, a lot of emphasis is laid to foster a strong research culture and building research capacity across higher education institutions of India. Further, there is a proposal to establish multidisciplinary education and research universities (MERUs), at par with IITs, IIMs so that the spirit of research and innovation can be inculcated among students while they are pursuing their academic learning.
Chandigarh University has taken lead in the domain of innovation and with the help of 1,200+ patents filed, the university has emerged as leading research-intensive university in India. This can be ascertained from the fact that in recently release rankings by the Office of Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks, Government of India, Chandigarh University ranked first among the standalone institutions of India for filing highest number of patents in a year.
In addition, Chandigarh University has also been ranked first in India for filing highest number of patents in the field of information technology. More than 50% of total patents filed by students and faculty of Chandigarh University have been published and 60+ patents have already been granted. Highest number of patents have been filed in the field of mechanical engineering with 419 patents while 164 patents have been filed in IT field, 44 patents in agriculture, 12 in health and medicine and 20 in automobile engineering.
Chandigarh University has a dedicated the University Centre for Research and Development (UCRD) that focuses onto inculcating the spirit of research and innovation among students. Prof Sanjeet Singh, dean research, Chandigarh University said, “We are focused towards realising the dream of our Prime Minister to make India a self reliant nation by developing new technologies and products. Students are encouraged to take up research to find solutions to the problems that our society and mankind is facing today in the 21st century.”
More than 50 CRG’s have been established to conduct research in the field of agriculture sciences, health sciences, information technology, mechanical engineering, automobile engineering and 20 other disciplines. “We are working on number of research problems given by the industry and for this Chandigarh University is getting support from leading global and Indian multinationals. The university has over 35 industrysponsored R&D Centres and advanced labs which include Microsoft Innovation Centre, IBM Software Lab for Emerging Technologies, HPE Centre of Excellence, Intel Intelligent System Lab, Texas Instrumentation Lab, Honda Skill & Research Centre and others,” added Prof Sanjeet.
“An annual budget of Rs 10 crore has been earmarked by the university for research and innovation. In addition, UCRD receives grants in the form of sponsored projects from the government and industry & we are working on 60+ sponsored projects,” said chancellor, Chandigarh University.