due to plastic waste .
Thousands of such start-ups have emerged in our country which has provided elegant solutions to some of the problems . They are the excellent examples of how innovative thinking can lead to wonders .
Ministry of commerce and industry , government of India have started a very attractive start-up scheme called # startupindia- If you have an innovative solution to a problem , your company would be provided necessary funds and infrastructure . So if you think that you have a solution to a problem , you can pitch your idea to get the funds . One just has to think slightly out of the box . I think innovative biotech start-ups are the need of the day and more biotech people should see these problems as an opportunity and grab it .
How can biotech graduates play a role ?
A biotechnology graduate has a lot of possibilities in this sector . One can join research and development departments of various microbiology and pharmaceutical based companies to contribute to new product design and manufacture . A biotech graduate can take up a job in pathology labs to help in disease diagnosis . One can also take up the job as a technical person in various research institutes for helping researchers in using various sophisticated machines for PCR , DNA sequencing , protein structure determination and much more . These are the first opportunities available at first look .
Being a Junior Research Fellow ( JRF ) allows one to be working on various research projects in research labs across the country . If one very much keen in continuing research as a career , then he or she can enroll as a doctoral student in various research institutes within the country .
However , most importantly the growing entrepreneur friendly ecosystem also presents them with an opportunity to develop their unique ideas into products if they have potential to solve societal problems .
On the policy front , this is the time when our government must speed up the innovation programmes for expanding growth of the overall biotech sector . India can surely become a world leader in biotechnology .
Chinmay Hemant Joshi is the 4th year Integrated MS student at School of Biology , Indian Institute for Science Education and Research ( IISER ), Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala , India . He is much passionate about biology and fascinated by various life forms around it . He wants to be a behavioural ecologist in future besides aspiring to become a popular science writer as well .
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