THE Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR) may soon adopt a corporate culture with consultants from
the World Bank being roped in to identify its selected laboratories and turning
them into moneyspinners.
According to Raghunath Mashelkar,
the new director-general of the CSIR, an
action plan has been devised to extensively market CSIR technologies and also
to create a work environment conducive
to scientists. As an incentive, 40 per cent
of the royalties earned by CSIR after marketing the technologies, will be given to the scientists who developed them.
Further, CSIR scientists have been
allowed to take 50 days off in a year for
consultancies and no limit has been
placed on earnings from these.
Said Mashelkar, who believes , that
CSIR scientists possess great talent" "Our
strategy is to unleash their intellectual,
potential by giving them freedorii, to
work and by providing the right environment." A separate budget has been
created to upgrade the skills of the entire
staff of the Organisation to encourage a
corporate culture.
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