Industry-Academia Interface: A View from an SME Manufacturer.

Late Prof. Chetput Venkatasubban Seshadri was a distinguished Indian chemical engineer. Prof. Seshadri earned his Doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh & later worked as a Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined IIT Kanpur as Assistant Professor in 1965 and later became a full professor. He left IIT Kanpur in 1974 to join Kasturi Paper Food and Chemicals Ltd., Bangalore, where he set up India's first fodder-yeast plant.