The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS). As per the MoU, the institutes will organise joint academic programme and faculty support for various courses to contribute knowledge and literature in multidisciplinary domains identifying areas of studies and research leading to patent rights, copyrights and other intellectual property rights in accordance with polices on intellectual property.
Apart from academic exchanges, the institutes will provide certificate/diploma courses relating to law, science, engineering, technology and practical training along with facilities.
The MoU was signed Dr Nirmal Kanti Chakrabarti, Vice-Chancellor, WB National University of Juridical Sciences in the presence of professor VK Tewari, director of IIT Kharagpur and other faculty and staff members from the two institutes.
“This academic exchanges will indeed be beneficial to generate translational research domains that encompasses both law and technology,” said professor Tewari.
“Today the MoU entered between IIT Kharagpur and West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences will give us a new opportunity to do academic collaboration and research which interfaces law and technology,” said Dr Chakrabarti.