How does agribusiness incubator help in technology commercialization and support the institute in achieving its mandates? Such a scenario calls for a change of perspective for the way institutes operates. The session will provide the institutes under NARS and others an overview on how business incubators help in not just technology transfer but also in generating revenues, protection of IPR, client interfacing and meeting their requirements and how agriculture can be viewed as a business entity.

1. Technology Business Incubation
Taking Discovery Towards Commercialization
Dwarkesh S Parihar
Bioseed Research India Pvt. Ltd.
Agribusiness Incubator @ ICRISAT
Hyderabad

2. Technology Business Incubation
•Creativity is a process of developing and expressing novel ideas that are
likely to be useful.
•Innovation is the embodiment, combination, and/or synthesis of knowledge
in original, into valued new products, processes, or services.

3. Technology Business Incubation
• An innovation is the end result of the creative process.
• Creativity is a process employed to improve problem solving.
• So you're not done until your creative efforts have produced a product,
service, or process that answers the original need or solves the
problem you identified at the outset.
 Innovation is a result of implementation of creative idea(s).
 Successful implementation of creative ideas demand Innovation Champion
supported by enthusiastic team.
 Results in breakthrough technologies to create a new product or process.

4. Technology Business Incubation
TECHNOLOGY Product / Process

5. Technology Business Incubation
COMMERCIALIZATION – REACHING END CUSTOMER
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPER
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6. Technology Business Incubation
COMMERCIALIZATION – REACHING END CUSTOMER
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPER
BUISINESS INCUBATOR Issues related to
• Legal
• Financial
• Regulatory
• Exposure
• Market
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7. Technology Business Incubation
• Bioseed Research India Pvt. Ltd., is a research & development company
operating in the area of development of hybrid seeds in
• Major field crops like corn, cotton, rice, millet and
• Vegetables like tomato, okra, brinjal, etc.
• Bioseed is part of DSCL group having major interest in Agri-sector,
including fertilizers, sugar, agri-retail and hybrid seeds.
• The biotechnology research group of Bioseed started its journey from
inception at Agribusiness Incubator @ ICRISAT, Hyderabad.
• We received tremendous support from the incubator in starting our
research programs focusing on development and application of
GM and non-GM crop improvement technologies.

8. Technology Business Incubation
The Agribusiness Incubator provides us support in
• Access to technologies through their networking with other
incubators.
• Bring public-private partnership or develop consortium based
support for the participants.
• Going beyond the incubator-client relationship to partnership.

9. Technology Business Incubation
Bioseed is participating in several public-private research partnership
projects
One such example is our collaborative research partnership with
DPMB, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.

10. Technology Business Incubation
• ABI @ ICRISAT through their partner at ABD Cell, TNAU identified and
publicized various technologies at TNAU.
• Helped us in getting more details to make a informed choice
• Brought the Scientist and Bioseed to discuss the technology, frame a
collaborative research project, work out financials, etc.
• ABI & ABD handled all the administrative procedures between TNAU
and Bioseed.
• Research project is moving from conceptual stage to implementation
with due respect to agreed timelines and milestones.
• Early success with the testing of technology has heightened
confidence of partners, and level of enthusiasm is high

11. Thanks