BIRACs role in Promoting the Biotech Innovation Ecosystem

BIRAC's role in Promoting the Biotech Innovation Ecosystem Dr. Shilpi Gupta Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (A Government of India Enterprise)

About BIRAC A Schedule B, section 8, PSE, under the aegis of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, established as an Interface Agency to strengthen and empower the emerging Biotech enterprise to undertake strategic research and innovation, addressing nationally relevant product development needs Vision To Stimulate, foster and enhance the strategic research and innovation capabilities of the Indian biotech industry, particularly start ups and SME’s, for creation of affordable products addressing the needs of the largest section of society Strategies • Foster innovation and entrepreneurship • Promote affordable innovation in key social sectors • Empowerment of start-ups & small and medium enterprises • Contribute through partners for capability enhancement and diffusion of innovation • Enable commercialization of discovery • Ensure global competitiveness of Indian enterprises

BIRAC’s Role and Activities Empowering and Enabling the Innovation Ecosystem Bio-incubation Space Mentorship & Capacity Building 03. 09. 2015

Enabling Innovation Research 03. 09. 2015

BIRAC’s Impact Funding Support of USD 223 Mn BIRAC Investment: USD 96 Mn Industry Commitment: USD 127 Mn *All Figures in Mn USD, 1 USD=INR 64. 04 Support to 270 Companies Mentoring to 360 Innovative Projects 03. 09. 2015

Initiatives for BIO-Entrepreneurship

Enhancing Capacities Incubation space Access to Research resources IP & Technology Management Mentoring 03. 09. 2015

BIRAC Resources • 15 Bioincubators • 1, 24, 000 Sq. ft of incubation space • ~ 180 Incubatees • 5 University Innovation Clusters

Mentorship & Capacity Building 2 week intensive entrepreneurial boot-camp programme: “Ignite” at Cf. EL, Cambridge Aimed at providing the Bio-entrepreneurs, opportunities to transform their innovative ideas into a business project and leverage the networking platform at the Cfe. L’s Entrepreneurial ecosystem 1 st Batch – July 2013 2 nd Batch – July 2014 Ignite 2014 Group Grant Writing and IP Workshops across the country, Regulatory Workshops and Hands-on Technical Training 03. 09. 2015

Social Innovation Programme for Products Affordable & Relevant to Societal Health Achieving WHO’s MDG Securing Maternal and Child Health Technological solutions for conversion of waste to value 03. 09. 2015

Our Partners DBT Deit. Y DST Mo. HF W Mo. FP ICAR ICMR MNR E 03. 09. 2015 11

Partnerships for Promoting Innovations & Entrepreneurship Grand Challenges India: DBT-BIRAC-BMGF Focus areas – Maternal & Child Health, Infectious Diseases, Agriculture, Food & Nutrition, and Sanitation • 3 Challenge Calls launched ü Achieving Healthy Growth Through Agriculture and Nutrition - USAID ü All Children Thriving in partnership with USAID ü Reinvent the Toilet Challenge – India • Focus areas – Innovations in Translational Medicine • Ist call theme – Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases 1 st Call with French Embassy in India on theme areas – molecular diagnostics for prediction of cardiac diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and/or dementia, cerebral palsy and generation of new assistive technologies for mobility of the physically challenged Indo French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research 2 nd Call with BPI France, a public Investment Bank for innovations in new targets/biomarkers for diagnostics/therapeutics and process development

Partnerships for Promoting Innovations & Entrepreneurship • To nurture innovations in TB Screening, Detection and Diagnostics Industry Innovation Programme on Medical Electronics in partnership with Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India

BIRAC’s support to Agriculture sector 03. 09. 2015

BIRAC’s support to Agriculture sector Supported ~75 innovative projects 60 Rs. in crores 50 40 30 20 10 0 Total BIRAC Contribution Company. BIG Contribution BIPP SBIRI CRSS SPARSH 03. 09. 2015

Areas supported by BIRAC in Agriculture Agri-Diagnostics Agri-Neutraceuticals 3% 17% 4% Aquaculture 13% 3% Marker Assisted Selection Nano-Biotech 20% 22% 8% RNAi Soil Health 4% Transgenic 3% Veterniary Secondary agriculture 03. 09. 2015

Initiatives in Secondary Agriculture BIRAC has a secondary agriculture innovation cell which aims at development of focused strategic action plan to promote secondary agriculture in India A discussion meeting on “Secondary Agriculture: Leading to Tertiary and Quaternary Value Addition through Biotech Approaches” was conducted. A special call for proposals to support projects in the area of secondary agriculture announced. Supported close to 25 projects with a total funding amounting to Rs. 35 crore 03. 09. 2015

Technologies/Commercial Plants supported by BIRAC Single Step Extraction Of Cottonseed With Miscella Refining Commercial Scale Extraction Unit to Produce 0 -Calorie Natural Sweetener Intervention Technologies for extraction of Lycopene from Tomato. Commercial Scale Production of Nanopesticides for Indian Agro-industry 03. 09. 2015

Value added Products Corn Steep Liquor and Powder suitable for food and fermentation Potential neutraceuticals from derivatives of Rice Nutraceuticals, poultry feed, aqua feed from the wastes/byproducts of palm oil mills and silk reeling industries Pet animal food, fish leather and other marine biotechnology products from fish waste. Bioconversion of Agricultural waste to Polylactic Acid Value addition and waste utilization in Banana pseudostem 03. 09. 2015

BIRAC envisages to be a flexible and nimble organisation that continues to gain trust of its stakeholders in playing a catalytic and transformational role to build the Indian bio-economy. Website: www. birac. nic. in

BIRAC – Vision for next 5 years Ø Develop affordable products of national and societal relevance Ø To work closely with industry and academia and related stakeholders to make India a Global Manufacturing Hub Ø To provide the right ecosystem and policy support to take the novel products to market 03. 09. 2015

Affordable Product Development Devices and Diagnostics Vaccines Biosimilars 17 Products 11 Technologies 24 IP