What is Industry Platform

It is a platform provides a framework to bring together stakeholders to define medium
to long-term research and technological development priorities for the benefit of
Industry. It also defines markers for achieving them and the associated time frames for
long-term sustainable competitiveness. The salient features are :

• Facilitates industry driven research agenda.
  
  
• Promotes discovery and innovation in the area of Lifesciences and Biotechnology through Public-Private Partnerships.
  
  
• Offers an efficient and flexible working mechanism to develop research agenda and meet the timelines of an emerging technology-intensive industry.
  
  
• Recognizes the criticality of high intensity research for the market.