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Teri Inc
produce electricity. If an Australian government-funded project to develop a solar biomass-based cooling system works out, this too will convert into a series of licences. Eighty to 90 glass units in Firozabad near Agra use Teri’s pot furnace and several brick kilns use its vertical shaft brick kiln. According to Teri, its technologies helped the medium- and small-scale sector save around 350,000 tonnes of carbon emissions last year. A books division has a turnover that’s already up to Rs 4 crore doing children’s and other books. It plans to do college textbooks by next year and the “Soldiers of the Earth” global environment programme has actor Akshay Kumar offering ideas for attractive comic books. Whatever the outcome of the Kuwait project, with so many commercial projects coming out of its R&D work on a regular basis, it is clear Teri is no longer your run-of-the-mill, though successful, policy institute. It already has centres in the US, UK, Japan and United Arab Emirates. In India, it has a centre over 36.5 hectares in Gurgaon, another one in Mukteshwar in the Himalyas, a campus in Goa and Bangalore and a Teri University in Vasant Kunj in south Delhi. How Teri will manage the transition to Teri Inc will be interesting to watch. It also holds the key to how India’s laboratories and research institutes can refashion their operations.Pages: 1 [2]