India and Israel to enhance partnership in innovation and startups

India and Israel will enhance partnership in areas like innovation and startups and usher in a new phase of deeper bilateral collaboration. This was stated by Indian Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh when a high-level Israel delegation led by Dr Daniel Gold, Head of DDR&D, Israeli Ministry of Defence, called on him in India recently.

On the occasion, India and Israel signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Industrial Research and Development Cooperation with focus on several key technology areas, like Aerospace, Electronics Instrumentation, Civil, Infrastructure & Engineering, Ecology, Environment, Earth & Ocean Sciences and Water, Mining, Minerals, Metals & Materials, Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Energy (Conventional & Non-Conventional) and Energy Devices, Agri, Nutrition & Biotech and Healthcare.

The Multi-Sectoral Agreement was signed between CSIR and Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), Ministry of Defense of the State of Israel, in the presence of Union Minister for Science & Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-Science Centre, New Delhi.