The collaboration is launched underneath the C-CAMP Agri CoE programme supported by the Govt of Karnataka’s Department of IT, BT & S&T and Department of Agriculture (KSDA). The settlement fosters early-stage startups and entrepreneurs by information sharing, mentoring, pilot deployment, and strategic engagement with an goal to promote innovation and enterprises aligning with sustainability, meals safety, local weather resilience and crop productiveness objectives of each companions.
Tge Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) and Bayer have signed an MoU underneath the C-CAMP Agri CoE programme to assist early-stage agri startups with mentoring, pilots, market entry, and potential funding.
The partnership goals to drive innovation in sustainability, meals safety, local weather resilience, and crop productiveness, leveraging Bayer’s LifeHub and C-CAMP’s deep-science ecosystem.
The settlement was signed yesterday at C-CAMP premises by C-CAMP Director-CEO, Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed and Dr. Anik Luke Dhanaraj, Bayer Science Fellow, Principal CI Analyst | SCIPI LifeHub, Bayer Science and Innovation Private Limited.
Remarking on the MoU signing ceremony, Dr. Saiyed stated, “C-CAMP Agri CoE launched in 2019 has promoted 100+ deep-science and deep tech-based solutions over the years. These innovations can potentially transform Indian agriculture and redefine how we view sustainability in agri. We are going beyond farming practice changes to commercial viability, scalability and mass-scale adoption of tech. With this partnership with Bayer, a global leader in agriculture and life sciences sector, we aim to increase industry engagement and participation in the innovation and go-to-market process in the complex Agri ecosystem.”
Sharing his ideas on the initiative, Dr. Dhanaraj stated, “Bayer’s LifeHubs strive to leverage open innovation from the ecosystem to develop solutions for farmers across the globe. Bayer’s LifeHub in Bangalore is looking forward to working closely with C-CAMP to address some of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers in India and beyond. We are also looking forward to partner with C-CAMP to run events to promote science and innovation and foster collaborations in agriculture”
The main targets of the MoU embrace startup identification, mentorship and handholding assist, deployments or pilots with Bayer’s deep R&D services, market entry assist and co-development partnerships for mutually chosen applied sciences.
MoU additionally lays down a framework to discover potential funding or business partnerships resembling licenses or know-how transfers to allow and facilitate idea-to-product journey of rising agricultural applied sciences.
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ALCHEMPro News Desk (HU)