also needs to excel in research teaching without research is of little use he said pointing out that india is not producing required number of phd scholars however he also had a solution we need close association between all national labs with universities this will not only help in teaching but also help us create more research scholars he said adding over 5000 scientists working in csir labs today can produce at least 2000 phds in an year he also expressed satisfaction over the fact that the move of granting deemed university status to csir labs the proposal mooted by him few years back has now been revived by the university grants commissionmashelkar said that india has achieved a lot in the field of information technology it but the areas like biotechnology which has huge potential in the country because of rich bio and genetic diversity needed to be pursued vigorously the biotechnology sector is growing at the rate of 40 in the world and this year it is expected to cross 25 billion dollar mark he saidmashelkar as director general of the csir labs not only created a national movement on intellectual property rights but his efforts also led to recognition of the role of traditional knowledge systems and integrating them with modern knowledge systems he successfully spearheaded the campaigns for revocation of the us patents on wound healing properties of turmeric and basmati ricereacting to the general perception that innovations and discoveries made in national labs do not produce commercial gains mashelkar said that it is a misconception that every idea gets commercialised world over on an average one of over 300 ideas is commercialised he said adding ibm created 2000 patterns last year of which only one or two got commercialisedregarding development of scientific and technological sector in the country mashelkar said that ppp model publicprivatepartnership is the key to future growth he pointed out that the ppp model today contributes 70 of research in the world the new tuberculosis drug on trials at present which is expected to reduce the treatment period to two months the biorefinery which produces material from sugarcane waste mobile computers at affordable prices are few success stories of ppp model in india he said