CEN and CENELEC held the high-level 1- day Standards + Innovation Conference ‘Boosting Innovation Through Standards’ with the aim of fostering the market uptake of innovation and research outcomes by using standardization as an enabler. Leading experts in innovation and standardization presented their experiences in linking the two worlds and highlighted how each one is benefiting from the other. Know more about the conference and how standards can boost innovation thanks to the new dedicated webpage.

Discover how European standards contribute to the success of research and innovation activities, facilitating market uptake, finding partners (e.g. industry, policy, consumer) for your activities, using existing knowledge, transferring know-how or easing the access to financial resources.

India and the Europe 29 group of Central, Northern and East European countries hold growth potential in areas such as AI, new age technologies, new manufacturing technologies and can be the beacons of growth in a slowing world,” Commerce & Industry Minister said. “The two regions have a lot of complementarities in areas such as smart cities, clean and renewable energy, start-ups, IT and ITES and can develop a strong economic relationship with each other,” he said at the India-Europe 29 Business Forum.

• Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) amends MV Rules Mandating Adherence to AIS-155 to Enhance Vehicular Security.
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A committee under the DoT formed for the standardization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has invited papers on AI. These original papers should address different aspects of AI such as – functional network architecture, AI architecture, data structures required, etc. DoT said that as the proliferation of AI increases, there is a need to develop an Indian AI stack so as to bring interoperability, among other things. Papers have been invited from academia, research, and technical industries, telecom service providers, application service providers.

• Report of committee - A on platforms and data on AI
• Report of committee - B on leveraging AI for identifying national missions in key sectors
• Report of committee - C on mapping technological capabilities, key policy enablers required across sectors, skilling, reskill
• Read more/DownloadReport of committee - D on cyber security, safety, legal and ethical issues

• Report of committee - A on platforms and data on AI
• Report of committee - B on leveraging AI for identifying national missions in key sectors
• Report of committee - C on mapping technological capabilities, key policy enablers required across sectors, skilling, reskill
• Report of committee - D on cyber security, safety, legal and ethical issues

Dept. for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT) launched website & mobile application [Learn to Protect, Secure and Maximize Your Innovation] on IPR. The modules of this e-learning platform [L2Pro India IP e-learning Platform and the L2Pro India Mobile App] will aid and enable, innovators, entrepreneurs, SMEs in understanding IPRs for their ownership and protection, integrate IP into business models and obtain value for their R&D efforts.

The increased proliferation of AI globally requires new policies for the enforcement of intellectual property rights, according to a joint report by India’s largest software services exporter Tata Consultancy Services and the CII. Currently patent laws treat AI software inventions as logical algorithms. While patent eligibility of algorithms is valid, there is little about how to deal with inventions that are heuristic in nature.  TCS Report

The Centre will soon constitute a working group on the proposed new industrial policy, which is aimed at promoting emerging sectors, reducing regulatory hurdles and making India a manufacturing hub. Earlier, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) had prepared the policy and sent it for the Union Cabinet approval, but certain new suggestions have been made with regard to the policy.