According to the company, the report is aimed at highlighting the role that academia will play in the growth and development of the Indian semiconductor industry and advices on a future course of action for building university labs and related research.
The summary of report includes: the role of government funding is 85-90 per cent of the funding available to university lab research; the top seven institutes account for approximately 70–75 per cent of the total research being undertaken in the academic institutes of the country. These institutes have the faculty and dedicated VLSI labs to support high-quality semiconductor-related research; and these institutes account for around 61 per cent of research papers published in the field of semiconductors.
The recommendations facilitate a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model involving the government, the industry and the academia to encourage applied semiconductor research. It promote setting up of technology business incubators (TBI), which would provide a platform for active industry-academia interactions.
"This study recommends a robust public private partnership model that can help leverage the synergistic competencies of the government, technical institutes, and the semiconductor industry," said Ashish Gupta, COO, Evalueserve.
The report recommends: take steps to enhance research infrastructure by developing dedicated research centres, by enhancing the standard of semiconductor laboratories to match with industry standards and by setting up semiconductor-related research in R&D special economic zones; improve the status of research scholars and faculty by providing performance-based incentives to faculty and research scholars, facilitating involvement of industry executives in academics and by creating awareness about job avenues amongst PhD holders. It also asked industry to participate in a proactive manner more than just providing tools.
Poornima Shenoy, president, ISA, said, "The design capacity of semiconductor companies in India resides with the capability to source quality talent and focus on cutting edge research out of our university labs. This exercise is the first complete documentation of such existing work. It will provide an excellent database from which both industry involvement and government support can grow." |
