The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) features in the Thomson Reuters top 50 Indian Innovator companies and research organizations for the year 2015. The Top 50 Indian Innovators lead the country in innovation output. They are a group of businesses and research institutions that develop, recognize and protect great ideas and use it to their full potential.
- Thomson Reuters India Innovation Awards honors the most innovative academic institutions and commercial enterprises headquartered in India for their spirit of innovation in R&D as it relates to Indian patent publications.
- Thomson Reuters 2015 India Innovation Awards is based on research and analysis done using the Derwent World Patents Index, the world’s most trusted and authoritative value-added patent database.
- Data from 2010-2014 was used for the analysis.
- The metrics used are patent volume, grant success rate, globalization, and citation influence.
- This analysis is done using proprietary Thomson Reuters data and tools. The threshold for inclusion in the Top 50 Indian innovators is at least 25 patents published during the period 2010-2014.
- Six innovators from the top 50 list have also been selected as the recipients of the Thomson Reuters India Innovation Awards 2015 across three different industrial sectors: Corporate-Pharmaceuticals, Corporate-Hi Tech., and Academic & Research Institutions.
CSIR was also the recipient of the Thomson Reuters India Innovation Awards 2013 in the category of Hi-Tech Academic & Government. CSIR, constituted in 1942 by a resolution of the then Central Legislative assembly, is an autonomous body registered under the Registration of Societies Act XXI of 1860. Known for its cutting-edge R&D knowledgebase in diverse S&T areas, CSIR is a contemporary R&D organization, having pan-India presence, with a dynamic network of 38 national laboratories, 39 outreach centers, 3 Innovation Complexes and 5 units.
