If only Jaidka s was the lone case. However, where NRDC failed to market the technology to even a single vendor, the company, on its own steam, had been able to sell it to as many as a dozen industries during the same period. Arya feels NRDC is really not poised to meet the requirements of small inventors and small industries since the huge amount of paperwork and red tape at NRDC puts entrepreneurs away from what could be a literal goldmine. And it s not just the inventors. Even technology buyers can be heard complaining.
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R. A. Mashelkar, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the nodal agency to which NRDC reports, admits that that the institution has not lived up to its true potential but blames the paucity of marketable innovations for this state of affairs. A time has come, Sharma said, when NRDC needs to re-examine the whole issue of supporting individual inventors and says a panel called the Intellectual Property Rights Advisory Committee will review the guidelines of the schemes relating to IPR . He suggests that the NRDC can now make profits only through consulting on issues related to IPR as wars relating to infringement of patents and copyrights will only increase when the full regime of the World Trade Organization comes into force in 2005. NRDC had been set up way back in 1953 to act as a single window that would help in all sorts of technology transfer. Commercialize it with NRDC .