The EuroIndia ICT (Information and communication technologies)
Supported by the European Commission and hosted by IMI Delhi, the final conference, to share its findings and insights, is aimed at managers & researchers wanting to create an environment to initiate and support innovation, within their companies, learn about Indian accomplishments, forecasts for Indian ICT & interact with the EU representatives present.
The “Euro-India ICT Co-operation”
This Euro India project is funded by the EU 7th Framework program for 2008-2009. The objective is to discuss the road mapping findings in thematic sessions through presentations from best practice cases as well as examples of regional strengths for potential collaboration between European & Indian ICT players.
101 Indian Organizations were involved in the submission of Framework Programme Six (FP6) ICT proposals, of which 22 were successful while 41 Indian organizations were involved in Framework Programme Seven (FP7) ICT Call 1 proposals of which 6 were successful.
The two day conference will be segmented in three distinct sections. The first will encapsulate events that aim to share the EuroIndia finding on the past two years of the ICT innovation mapping study, sharing the understanding of India's innovative potential and collaborative capacity. The second will be dedicated to presentation of international academic papers on ICT innovation specifically between Europe & India and including emerging economies at large. The third and final section, will be a dedicated exhibition where some of the innovative Indian companies, involved in the EuroIndia knowledge mapping, will display their innovations to the audience.
The conference Co-chairs include Mogens Kuehn Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, Sudhanshu Rai, CBS, Denmark, Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Prof Ashoka Chandra, Prof Ramesh Behl, & Dr C.S. Venkata Ratnam, IMI, Delhi. Besides the the support from EU the project partners include IIT Mumbai, FICCI, Infra Technologies, Paris, Trust – IT Services Ltd. London & Pisa, Copenhagen Business School, IIT Chennai, International Management Institute (IMI) Delhi, IIM Bangalore, University of Calcutta.
