LONDON’S Imperial College is set to establish its Indian hub in Bengaluru to strengthen scientific, education and innovation partnerships between India and the UK, college President Hugh Brady said. The hub called “Imperial Global India” will be established as a Liaison Office and will focus on strengthening and co-creating new research partnerships between Imperial and leading universities and institutes in India, he said. It will also act as a communication channel to form closer ties with industry and policymakers and provide a platform for greater collaboration in innovation between India and the UK, he added. Sharing the development in an interview with PTI, Brady said Bengaluru is fourth in the series of Imperial Global network hubs following Singapore, San Francisco in US, and Accra in Ghana.

 

He clarified that the hub will not be a branch campus of Imperial College, London which has been ranked second best university in the world and top in the UK in the latest QS World University rankings. “We are opening a number of global hubs such as in San Francisco, Singapore and Accra as West African hub. They are not branch campuses, what they look to do is to help us work in countries where we have a strong track record of collaboration, so that we can build on that to build larger research programmes of scale in win-win areas,” he said.