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University-Industry collaboration and Industry 4.0 

Since the mid-80s, and the success of biotech, universities the world over have rushed to embrace “the third mission” of collaborating with industry to commercialise technologies created in university laboratories.  Achieving success in this third mission, which stands separately from the first two missions of teaching and research, has become a mark of esteem which shows the soci

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Unintended consequences-India’s climate policies and growing regional disparities

In a forthcoming working paper, we assess the impact of deep decarbonization on states with low endowments of solar and wind energy and find that strong, continued regional variations in the build out of solar and wind energy and lower coal offtake together exacerbate existing regional inequalities. The absence of an acceptable framework and policies that address resultant fiscal and political iss

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