BARC sets up tech incubation centre

A centre for incubation of technologies is being set up by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), which will work jointly with the Indian industries on some spin-off technologies. The Centre for incubation of technologies (BARCIT), being set up at the old Training School Complex outside BARC, would have an easy access to technologists from the industry to jointly work with BARC scientists, A M Patankar, Head, Technology Transfer and collaboration, said.

BARCIT would get funding and human resource from the industry, while the BARC scientists would help them in developing lab technologies for community use, he said.

The work on four technology incubation has been initiated in the area of water, biotechnology, scientific and medical equipment and Electron Beam applications, Patankar said.

“So far during the last five decades, we carried out transfer of technologies from BARC to industry but with BARCIT it would be possible to work with industry closely to develop the technologies even up to industrial scale just outside the BARC premises,” he said.