When two parties join hands for exchange of technical know-how, technical designs and drawings; training of technical personnel of one of the parties in the manufacturing and/or research and development divisions of the other party; continuous provision of technical, administrative and/or managerial services, they are said to be collaborating in a desired venture.

**COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS** When two parties join hands for exchange of technical know-how, technical designs and drawings; training of technical personnel of one of the parties in the manufacturing and/or research and development divisions of the other party; continuous provision of technical, administrative and/or managerial services, they are said to be collaborating in a desired venture. The word “collaboration” has, however, acquired a specific meaning, which refers to cooperation between a party within India and a party abroad. The agreements drawn and executed between such collaborating parties are known as “foreign collaboration agreements”. With sophistication and technical advance achieved in the developed countries and motivated by the desire of carrying the country into the twenty-first century, the Indian entrepreneurs are seeking all possible avenues for obtaining technical knowhow in the fields of industry, agriculture, mining, oil exploration, power generation, etc. A large number of Indian industrialists have already entered into long and short-term collaboration arrangements with foreign companies, firms etc. In order to ensure quick processing of the proposed collaboration arrangements and on a uniform basis, the Central Government has issued guidelines for prospective collaborators so that they submit their proposals in accordance with those guidelines. Thanks