The UK Science and Innovation Network in India is spread across three posts with five staff based in the British High Commission in New Delhi, three in the British Deputy High Commission in Bangalore and two in the British Deputy High Commission in Mumbai.

Working alongside our colleagues in the UKTI, The Climate Change and Energy Unit, Dfid and the British Council, our main remit is to encourage, promote and facilitate R&D collaborations between academia, research establishments and corporates in the UK and their Indian counterparts using platforms like seminars, workshops, sponsored visits, researcher exchanges,etc.

We also work very closely with the Research Council UK (RCUK)- UK's largest research funding body-  who set up their office in the British High Commission, New Delhi in 2008.

Our main aims are:

• Scientific Collaboration - Facilitating scientific collaboration between UK universities and research laboratories and the world’s best public and private-sector counterparts abroad, and working to increase access to foreign funding for UK researchers.
  
• Innovation - Strengthening the UK’s innovation capacity through attracting R&D intensive international investment, helping UK companies to access and benchmark overseas technologies, and facilitating R&D partnerships and technology transfer.
  
• Influence – Using science and innovation to influence Governments and other overseas players across the range of the UK’s international policy priorities (e.g. climate change, energy security, poverty, infectious diseases, counter-terrorism).
  
• Policy-making – Helping UK and overseas policy-makers develop best practice in science and innovation policy, and developing international frameworks in breakthrough technologies such as stem cell research.