New Delhi: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) awarded the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Roorkee) the top position under the most innovative research institutions category.
The CII picked the institute for the award for the innovations in Visco-elastic Energy Dissipating Link Elements for Earthquake resistant housing construction, Nitrogen-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide (N-rGO) for High-Performance Supercapacitor, Nitrogen-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide (N-rGO) for High-Performance Supercapacitor.
IIT Madras and Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad (INCOIS), won the second and third positions, respectively.
“We are delighted to be recognized by CII’s Industrial Innovation Award for two years in a row. IIT Roorkee provides an ambience and ecosystem which inspires its students and faculty to focus on industrial innovation, in addition to academic research. The mindset of the Institute and the facilities available in the campus provide a smooth ride from ideation to creation. This award reinforces our belief that we are on the right path, and we need to continue to nurture the best practices we have in this space,” IIT Roorkee director Prof. Ajit K Chaturvedi was quoted as saying by Careers360.
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