India in an endeavor to attain sustainable exports world over the focus is shifting to setting up facilities for competitive and high value added production and services. This is driving organisations in various countries to undertake technology upgradation and modernisation in their production processes and services so as to develop state of the art technological capabilities for survival and growth in both domestic and in the export market. With the onset of rapid globalisation, organisations are relying more and more on technology acquisition, adaptation and absorption, besides indigenous technology development. The technology trade business demand that the countries spread awareness about their own technological strengths and also explore foreign markets for exports as well as technology acquisition.

"IndiaTech 2000, Colombo"

The participation of selected Indian enterprises and a few national laboratories from the CSIR system in India in the Seminar would indeed be an opportunity for interactions between R&D and industry of both India and Sri Lanka.

"Seminar on technology upgradation and modernisation"