Institute Technology Management Unit (ITMU)
About ITMU
The Institute Technology Management Unit (ITMU) was established in 2008 under ICAR plan scheme entitled “Intellectual Property Management and Transfer/Commercialization of Agricultural Technology Scheme (Up-scaling of existing component i.e. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) under ICAR Headquarters Scheme on Management and Information Services)” funded by ICAR. The ITMU project was renamed as “National Agricultural Innovation Fund (NAIF)” with three components: Component -1 deals with ITMU activities i.e. Innovation Fund, Component-2 deals with ABI activities and Component-3 deals with ARYA activities.
ITMU functions as coordinating unit and facilitator to recognize the promising technologies) developed, process the filing of patent and maintaining the IP portfolios of the Institute through Institute Technology Management Committee (ITMC). ITMU/ITMC seeks advice/assistance from the Zonal Agro-Technology Management Centres (ZTMCs) at the zonal level and strictly obeys the administrative guidelines/ advisory or policy decisions taken by the ICAR from time to time.
Objectives
- To pursue all IP protection, maintenance and transfer / commercialization related matters at the institute level following ICAR guidelines and any other administrative or policy decisions taken in ICAR from time to time.
- To seek any specific case-to-case basis advice/ assistance from the Zonal Agro-Technology Management Centres (ZTMCs) at the zonal level or the Agro-Technology Management Centre (ATMC) at the ICAR headquarters to pursue objective 1.
At the institute level, Institute Technology Management Unit (ITMU) is constituted to process all IPR related issues which include:
- Patenting of the Institute Technology
- Technology Commercialization
- Consultancy related issues
- Training Programmes conducted by the Institute
- Copyright of Research and technical publications
- Germplasm Registration
- Plant Varieties Registration
- All other IP issues
The Institute Technology Management Committee at ICAR-ISRI was constituted as per the guidelines of ICAR to facilitate the process of all Intellectual Property (IP) developed by the Institute Scientists.