Council of Scientific & Industrial Research: the size of its laboratory network
Background
The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has a dynamic network of 37 national laboratories, 39 outreach centres, 1 Innovation Complexes, and three units with a pan-India presence.
CSIR's R&D expertise and experience are embodied in about 3476 active Scientists supported by about 4000 technical and support personnel as of 31st March 2022.
CSIR covers a wide spectrum from oceanography, geophysics, chemicals, drugs, genomics, biotechnology and nanotechnology to mining, aeronautics, instrumentation, environmental engineering and information technology.
CSIR filed about 250 Indian patents and 213 foreign patents during 2022-23.
CSIR has a patent portfolio of 1,132 unique patents in force, out of which 140 patents have been commercialized.
CSIR also has 2,587 in force patents granted abroad in multiple countries.
In 2022, CSIR published around 5800 papers in SCI Journals with an average impact factor per paper of 4.9.
CSIR envisages a vision called CSIR@2030, aligned to the Government of India's vision for the next 25 years.
In plain words
CSIR Council of Scientific & Industrial Research — India's largest publicly funded multidisciplinary R&D organisation.
Impact factor A measure of how often a journal's papers are cited — Used here as an average per published paper.
Patent in force A granted patent that is still valid — Different from a patent merely applied for.