About Us:

STEDEC’s mandated activities include:

• To function as a National Technology Commercialization Organization.
• To assist public sector R&D organizations towards commercialization of their indigenously researched products, processes and technologies.
• To assist public sector R&D organizations in developing market-driven research programs.
• To assist public sector R&D organizations for a greater commercialization efforts through market studies, investment in pilot plants, management of pilot plants, and marketing of such products.
• To assist the Ministry of Science and Technology in management of projects related to indigenously researched products, processes and technologies.
• To adapt and adopt foreign technologies for enhancing industrial development.
• To reduce dependence on foreign technologies and enhance import substitution.
• To establish and manage a technology resource database, for effective transfer of technologies, especially oriented towards small and medium enterprise sector.

AGRICULTURE SECTOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES:

• Sales and marketing of various agro-chemical, pesticides, insecticides, termiticides, weedicides, fungicides, micronutrients, foliar sprays and plant hormones etc. at economical rates.
• Marketing, sales and information dissemination of public sector R&D products and services.
• Promotion of agriculture sector exports through provision of technical services and products for pest control and productivity enhancement.
• Managing training to farmers in coordination with dealers to disseminate information regarding proper/safe use of pesticides to increase yield at economical costs.
• Provision of quality services to household sector in pest eradication, termite proofing and fumigation etc.

MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF LABORATORY EQUIPMENT

STEDEC in collaboration with PCSIR provides world class scientific and laboratory equipment based on indigenous technology to the industrial, scientific and educational sectors of the country. This scientific and laboratory equipment is the outcome of extensive in-house R&D efforts over a period of many years. In-house R&D activity for designing, development, and fabrication of common laboratory equipment was undertaken to provide low-cost, indigenous solutions for Education, Scientific and Industrial Sectors where financial constraints prevented them from utilizing costly imported scientific laboratory equipment.

COMMERCIALIZATION FOCUS AND ACTIVITIES:

• Facilitation of technology commercialization activities through coordinating interactions of R&D organizations with academia, industry and entrepreneurs.
• Front-ends sales & commercialization activities of R&D organizations such as PCSIR, PCRWR, PCRET, NIE and CWHR.
• Promotion of indigenously researched products and services of R&D Organization through exhibitions and seminars.
• Coordination between academia, R&D organizations, and industry to identify market-driven and need-based research initiatives.
• Exploring potential opportunities for alliances with and between public and private sectors for promotion of indigenous technologies and industrial development.

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