Labs & Facilities

The following facilities are available at Technology Transfer Division (ETTD) at CIRCOT

• Modern Ginning & Allied Machinery (at GTC Nagpur)
• Pulp, Paper and Board Making and Testing Facilities
• Scientific Cotton Seed Processing Pilot Plant (at GTC Nagpur)
• Sample Weaving Loom
• Nano Cellulose Pilot Plant

Research Programs & Services

The following are the services provided by the Technology Transfer Division (TTD) at CIRCOT

Technology transfer, Commercialization and Licensing

• Promotion of the technologies developed in the Institute through awareness creation, demonstration and incubation.
• Technology validation of the recently developed technologies to enable its commercialization
• Entrepreneurship Development Programmes to tap the potential of budding entrepreneurs, who will take up the technology and develop it into a successful Enterprise.

Intellectual Property Management

• Protection of the new ideas
• Creation of brand value for the technology through IP tag
• Sensitize the scientist about intellectual property

Training

• Impart technical knowledge and skill to the personnel employed in cotton sectorespecially ginning and by-product utilization as well as to the traders creating a trained human resource in ginning and quality evaluation.
• Having gained expertise in the cutting edge technologies. Customized high-end training programmes in the areas Scientific processing of cotton seed, Basics of nanotechnology and its application, Cotton spinning, Microscopy, Chemical characterization of textile material etc.

Impact assessment

Backward linkage to the research based on the feedback from the clients or the stakeholders is essential for refinement of existing technology or get the insight into newer area of technology development. To serve this purpose following activities will be initiated

• Impact assessment of the CIRCOT technologies from among the stakeholders
• Impact of trained human resource on the industrial production

Service to the stakeholders

• CIRCOT is recognized as the referral laboratory in the textile testing and is also NABL accredited. To cater to the needs of the stakeholders in the textile sector we undertake
• Commercial testing service to the industries at professional standard
• Consultancy services to the stakeholders to address their needs.

Business Planning and Development Unit (BPD)

CIRCOT has a Zonal Technology Management and Business Planning & Development (ZTM-BPD) unit. This unit provides a gamut of services ranging from incubation facilities such as office space, access to information and communication technologies, guidance on management, marketing, technical, to legal, IPR and financial issues. This unit also promotes entrepreneurial attitude and creates awareness about the opportunities that the entrepreneurship can bring into the local agri-business environment.

Organization Structure (ETTD)

Technology transfer is the most important component of any research organization. The success of the technology development by an institute is attained by transferring the technology to the targeted stakeholders and bringing about the required social and economic transformation.