Abbreviations
A2K+ | Access to Knowledge for Technology Development and Dissemination |
ACC | Associated Cement Company |
ACE | Association of Consulting Engineers |
AIMA | All India Management Association |
ALH | Advanced Light Helicopter |
AMPRI | Advanced Material and Processes Research Institute |
APCTT | Asia and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology |
APIN | Asia and Pacific Information Network |
ASCI | Administrative Staff College of India |
BEL | Bharat Electronics Limited |
BIRD-crf | Building Industrial Research & Development & Common Research Facilities |
BTIS | Bio-Technology Information System |
CBDT | Central Board of of Direct Taxes |
CBRI | Central Building Research Institute |
CCMB | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology |
CDC | Consultancy Development Centre |
CDRI | Central Drug Research Institute |
CDROM | Compact Disk Read Only Memory |
CDC/ISIS | Computerised Data Services/Integrated Set of Information System |
CECRI | Central Electrochemical Research Institute |
CEERI | Central Economics Engineering Research Institute |
CEL | Central Economics Limited |
CFTRI | Central Food Technology Research Institute |
CGCRI | Central Glass and Ceramics Research Institute |
CII | Confederation of Indian Industry |
CIMAP | Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants |
CIMFR | Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research |
CITT | Centre for International Trade in Technology |
CLRI | Central Leather Research Institute |
CMERI | Central Mechanical Research Institute |
CMPDIL | Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited |
CMRS | Central Mining Research Station |
CRRI | Central Road Research Institute |
CRTDHs | Common Research and Technology Development Hub |
CSIO | Central Scientific Instruments Organisation |
CSIR | Council of Scientific & Industrial Research |
CSMCRI | Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute |
CSTT | Centre for Studies on Technology & Trade |
DBT | Department of Bio-Technology |
DCPC | Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals |
DCSSI | Development Commissioner Small Scale Industries |
DGTD | Directorate General of Technical Development |
DOE | Department of Electronics |
DOT | Department of Telecommunications |
DRDO | Defence Research & Development Organisation |
DSIR | Department of Scientific & Industrial Research |
ECIL | Electronics Corporation of India Limited |
EDM | Electronic Data Management |
ENVIS | Environmental Information System |
ERDA | Electrical Research and Development Association |
ESCAP | Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific |
EXIM | Export-Import |
FC | Foreign Collaborations |
FI | Fiscal Incentives |
FICCI | Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry |
GSI | Geological Survey of India |
HGTP | Home Grown Technology Programme |
HMT | Hindustan Machine Tools |
HRD | Human Resource Department |
ICAR | Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
ICAS | Indian Council of Ayurveda & Siddha |
ICSSR | Indian Council of Social Sciences Research |
ICMR | Indian Council of Medical Research |
ICSTI | International Centre for Science & Technology Information |
IDAMS | Internationally Developed Data Management System |
IGIB | Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology |
IGNOU | Indira Gandhi National Open University |
IHBT | Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology |
IICB | Indian Institute of Chemical Biology |
IICT | Indian Institute of Chemical Technology |
IIFT | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade |
IIIM | Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine |
IIP | Indian Institute of Petroleum |
IISc | Indian Institute of Science |
IIT | Indian Institute of Technology |
IITR | Indian Institute of Toxicology Research |
ILD | Institute for Labour Development |
IMT | Institute of Microbial Technology |
INFLIBNET | Information Library Network |
INSA | Indian National Science Academy |
INSDOC | Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre |
IPCL | Indian Petrochemicals Limited |
IPR | Intellectual Property Rights |
ITI | Indian Telephone Industries |
ISRO | Indian Space Research Organisation |
ITPO | Indian Trade promotion Organisation |
ITT | Information Today & Tomorrow |
LAN | Local Area Network |
LCA | Light Combat Aircraft |
LIS | Library & Information Science |
LTM | Leather Technology Mission |
MDR | Multi Drug Resistance |
MIT | Ministry of Information Technology |
MITCOM | Maharashtra Industrial & Technical Consultancy organization Ltd. |
MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
NACIDS | National Access Centres to International Database Services |
NAFEN | National Foundation of Indian Engineers |
NAL | National Aerospace Laboratories |
NaTCP | Sodium TrichloroPyridinol |
NBRI | National Botanical Research Institute |
NCAER | National Council of Applied Economic Research |
NCL | National Chemical Laboratory |
NCSI | National Centre for Science Information |
NEERI | National Environmental Engineering Research Institute |
NEIST | North-East Institute of Science & Technology |
NEITCO | North-Eastern Industrial Technical Consultants Organisation Limited |
NGRI | National Geophysical Research Institute |
NICMAR | National Institute of Construction Management & Research |
NID | National Institute of Design |
NIDC | National Industrial Development Corporation |
NIFT | National Institute of Fashion Technology |
NIIST | National Institute for Inter-disciplinary Science & Technology |
NIO | National Institute of Oceanography |
NISCAIR | National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources |
NISSAT | National Information System for Science And Technology |
NISTADS | National Institute of Science Technology & Development Studies |
NMCC | National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council |
NML | National Metallurgical Laboratory |
NPL | National Physical Laboratory |
NRDC | National Research Development Corporation |
NRFC | National register of Foreign Collaborations |
NSTMIS | National Science & Technology Management Information System |
OCCI | Overseas Construction Council of India |
ODS | Ozone Depleting Substances |
PACE | Patent Acquisition and Collaborative Research and Technology Development |
PATSER | Programme Aimed at Technological Self Reliance |
PFRI | Public Funded Research Institutions |
PRISM | Promoting Innovations in Individuals, Start-ups and MSMEs |
PSCS | Promotion & Support to Consultancy Services |
PSU | Public Sector Undertaking |
RAJCON | Rajasthan Consultancy Organisation Lts. |
RDI | Research & Development By Industry |
REC | Regional Engineering College |
RRL | Regional Research Laboratory |
SAARC | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation |
SASTINET | South Asian Science & Technology Information Network |
SEETOT | Scheme to Enhance the Efficacy of Transfer of Technology |
SERC | Structural Engineering Research Institute |
SIRO | Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation |
SME | Small & Medium Enterprise |
TAAS | Technology Absorption and Adaptation Scheme |
TATT | Transfer & Trading in Technology |
TCO | Technical Consultancy Organisation |
TDB | Technology Development Board |
TEDO | Technology Export Development Organisation |
TePP | Technopreneur Promotion Programme |
TFYP | Tenth Five Year Plan |
TIFAC | Technology Information Forecasting & Assessment Council |
TM | Technology Management |
TPIC | Technology Policy Implementation Committee |
TQM | Total Quality Management |
UGC | University Grants Commission |
UNIDO | United Nation Industrial Development Organisation |
UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade & Development |
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation |
UPICO | Uttar Pradesh Industrial Consultants Ltd. |
VIC | Virtual Information Centre |
WINISIS | Window-Integrated Set of Information System |
WIPO | World Intellectual Property Organisation |
WITT | Waterfalls Institute of Technology Transfer |
WSIS | World Summit on Information Society |