India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has a specialized service Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (URDIP) at Pune which is involved in the pre-research and pre- development phase of the research projects by providing intellectual property and techno-commercial information services.
CSIR-URDIP provides value added information services to wide array of clients including start-up companies, SMEs, Research Institutes within and outside CSIR, Academic Institutes, Large Indian Corporate and Multinational Corporations. Our primary clients include R&D, legal, new business development and mutifunctional corporate teams.
CSIR-URDIP provides value added information services in the following areas:
Patinformatics
Toxinformatics
Phytoinformatics
Cheminformatics