The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) is a name used in a number of countries.

Contents 1 India 2 New Zealand 3 UK 4 External links

[edit] India

The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) is a part of the Ministry of Science and Technology, which was announced through a Presidential Notification, dated January 4, 1985 (74/2/1/8 Cab.) contained in the 164th Amendment of the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) has a mandate to carry out the activities relating to indigenous technology promotion, development, utilization and transfer. It also overlooks the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian largest research and development organization.

[edit] New Zealand

Founded in 1926 by (amongst others) Ernest Marsden. Reconstituted into profit-motivated entities called Crown Research Institutes by the Crown Research Institutes Act 1992, with further some further consolidation since. See Crown Research Institutes.

[edit] UK

The DSIR in the United Kingdom was a government department with responsibilities for research from 1917 to 1965. It was formed during World War I with the aim of enhancing Scientific and Industrial Research by means of government funding. The initial budget in 1917 was £1,000,000.

Research Laboratories administered by the DSIR up to its disbandment in 1965:

• Building Research Station, Watford (from 1921) later renamed Building Research Establishment, and now simply BRE
• Fuel Research Station, Greenwich, moved 1959 to Stevenage and renamed Warren Spring Laboratory, WSL
• National Physical Laboratory - Teddington (from circa 1917)
• Radio Research Station - Ditton Park (from 1924)
• Road Research Laboratory, Crowthorne (from 1933)
• National Engineering Laboratory - East Kilbride (later transferred to the DTI)

[edit] External links

• UK DSIR:
  • BRE
  • TRL
• India DSIR:
  • India DSIR