BIRAC Technology Portal

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) is a not-for-profit Section 8, Schedule B, Public Sector Enterprise, set up by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India as an Interface Agency to strengthen and empower the emerging Biotech enterprise to undertake strategic research and innovation, addressing nationally relevant product development needs. BIRAC is a industry-academia interface and implements its mandate through a wide range of impact initiatives, be it providing access to risk capital through targeted funding, technology transfer, IP management and handholding schemes that help bring innovation excellence to the biotech firms and make them globally competitive.

BIRAC Technology Portal

BIRAC technology portal is a single window to exclusively look for indigenous technologies, products and services in biotechnology sector. This portal provides area wise details about the innovation, inventors, stage of technology maturation with their technology readiness levels (TRLs) mapped. Through this technology portal BIRAC aims to not only showcase the successfully commercialized affordable products and technologies supported through various BIRAC schemes but also provide opportunity for early stage products and technologies at various stages of validation to connect with right partners for value addition/technology licensing or for further validation, attracting future investments, marketing and scale up. This portal will be a networking platform for entrepreneurs, area experts, manufacturers and investors.

Category of Products and Technologies

The products and technologies are categorized based on their maturity under:

• Commercialized products/technologies
• Validated products and technologies
• Early stage technologies

Related Links

• Call for proposal
• Publications

Source: BIRAC Technology Portal