Bengaluru, Nov 18 (Agency) BeST cluster was launched at 2022 Bengaluru Tech Summit by India’s Principal Scientific Advisor Prof Ajay Sood in the presence of Ex-IISc Director Prof G Padmanabhan and Infosys Co-Founder Kris Gopalakrishnan here on Wednesday. The funding for BeST was recently sanctioned by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Union Government. During the launch, Prof Sood emphasized that Bengaluru has enormous technological potential and that Karnataka is among the leaders in science and technology advancements. Co-Lead Dr Taslimarif Saiyed said Bengaluru is a city of science, innovation and opportunity and the cluster could be a landmark moment for Science and Technology in India and possibly the world.
“We aim to bring together stakeholders with shared ecosystems, identify and address problems first with locally relevant solutions, but also scale up nationally and internationally by building global competitiveness. BeST activities will be based on this ground-up pyramid model,” he said. Co-Lead Prof Ambarish Ghosh said, “Bengaluru Tech Summit is the ideal launch-pad for the BeST Cluster. Impact of the BeST can be defined in many ways. In addition to immediate social and economic impact at a city scale, we must also consider the impact on sustainability and being globally competitive.” The earlier S&T clusters in this programme have been set up in Pune, Jodhpur, Delhi-NCR, Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad.