Dr. H. Purushotham CMD National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) has been conferred with the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) PSE Excellence Award. The award has been conferred for Dr. H. Purushotham for his outstanding contribution in nation building in the area of R&D Technology Transfer and Innovation.
Under his leadership in last three years NRDC partnered with 94 R & D institutions, universities, PSUs, which are promoting innovations, entrepreneurship, incubation and start ups and acquired 290 technologies from these institutions, filed 95 patents and transferred / licensed 92 innovative technologies to Start Ups and entrepreneurs, which is a major contribution to Start Up India and Make in India Schemes. NRDC has assisted Start Up India Mission by evaluating about 3000 Start Up proposals so far for their innovation content / technology and gave its recommendations for recognition and tax benefit to DIPP and partnered with IOCL for implementation of their start-up scheme.