bengaluru space psu newspace india limited nsil which has been mandated to transfer technologies developed by isro to the indian industry for commercial use has transferred 78 technologies for commercialisation in the last two yearsan isro statement issued on thursday read to promote this further a technology transfer conclave was organised on june 27 at the isro headquarters thirtysix industries participated and 11 transfer of technology agreements were exchanged between industry and nsils somanath secretary department of space and chairman isro reiterated that technology transfer will enable the industry to absorb high end technologies developed by isro over a period of time and leverage the industry to scale them up for much advanced applications expressing confidence that the day was not too far for the reversal to happen when critical technologies developed by industry will be used for isro missions he emphasised the potential of technologies in the domain of space applications the statement added that he also highlighted some of the futuristic strategies by isro in production of operational systems various isro centres presented potential technologies which are ready for transfer in near future it readeven before the formation of nsil in march 2019 the department of space dos had been transferring technologies to the industryas reported earlier by toi nearly 400 technologies have been transferred to more than 300 industries spread across the country by dos and isrofrom just 56 agreements enabling transfer of 39 technologies to 20 companies in 1980 isro had 520 agreements with 233 industries for 407 technologies as of september 2020 it has now further jumped to 611 agreements with 326 industries as of march 30 2022 while isro has been transferring technologies to companies from very early on the first serious impetus came at the time of satish dhawan occupying the top office since then the space agency has consistently transferred technology to industriessudheer kumar n director isro capacity building programme office cbpo had told toi in may isro has always partnered with the industry while earlier we mostly transferred technologies that had spinoffs now with the opening up of the sector we are also focusing on transferring technologies that can help industries take off this helps industries too as they dont have to reinvent the wheel each timemajority of the technology transferred by isro around 45 are in the field of electronics computerbased technology and telecom broadcasting together technologies relating to chemicals and special materials form the singlelargest clusterfurther in 202122 alone isro has transferred 69 technologies to space psu newspace india limited nsil which has been empowered by the department of space dos to in turn transfer them to the industries