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'I' for Innovation
(Selected Lectures of Dr. R A Mashelkar, Chairperson NIF)
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Indian Decade of Innovation (2010-2020): Agenda and the Action Why is innovation suddenly gaining such a currency? Innovation Led Growth, Innovation Led Recovery, Innovation Led Competitiveness are not mere slogans, they are a hard reality. The power of innovation to create social and economic transformation has been well recognized Dr. Mashelkar's Speech on 5th Fifth National Biennial Award Function On Building Innovation Culture and Leaders Innovation –A Way of Life.... Innovation At And For Innovation At And For The Bottom Of The Pyramid A wrong notion A wrong notion- Poor people Poor people Leveraging Innovation Through Consortia & Networks Networks and Consortia ...... Role of IPR in National Innovation Ecosystem IP includes right related to............ Gandhian Engineering is not just for the poor Let me share a presentation with you that I made recently to a bunch of young students in Pune at Tilak Smarak Mandir, organized through Rotary. You need to understand a bit of the context to appreciate what Gandhian Engineering is. Mind Vs Mind Set : The Grand Indian Challenge While I am going to do precisely that, let me begin by saying that the idea of having this Shaping Young Minds Programme is a great idea. And why do I say it's a great idea? When we look at the 21 st century, many people say that it is going to be the century of knowledge, but people who think more deeply about it say it is going to be the century of mind. Indian science, technology, and society: the changing landscape Over the centuries, India's scientific and technological position among developed and developing countries has shifted. Several centuries ago, it was characterized by scientific thought, capabilities, and techniques more advanced than many countries. However, when the scientific and industrial revolutions took place in the West, India was in a stagnant period. This paper looks at knowledge production in different countries vis-à-vis their economic strength, and then positions India within this landscape. Technonationalism to Techno globalism Technology denial over the years has been affected through several instruments such as Wassenar Arrangement, Nuclear Suppliers Group, Australia Group, etc. India's technology denial share ranged from a high performance supercomputer to cryogenic engine used in the space launch vehicles. When technology was not available for love or for money, the only option for India was developing the technology on its own. India had to follow the path of this “technonationalism”. Science, Technology, Innovation: Their Impact on Economic and Political Power Tomorrow’s world will be dominated by knowledge industries. The emphasis in such knowledge industries is not on physical or tangible assets, but on intangible knowledge assets. Increasingly the traditional factors of production – land, labor and capital – have become less important when compared with technology; the economists have termed this as the ‘expansion of the production frontier’. The value of intellectual capital of an industry will determine its rank and competitiveness. The nature of intangible assets will include several commonalties such as research and development, patents, proprietary technologies, databases, brands and even relationships, people and so on. In knowledge industries, there will be a major shift from people, who handled information and did routine and unthinking work, to those who will use knowledge at every stage. For such people, information and knowledge will be both the raw material of their labor as well as its product.
Economics of Knowledge Tomorrow’s societies will be knowledge societies. Tomorrow’s markets will be knowledge markets. Tomorrow’s wars will be fought not by the conventional weapons, guns, missiles and so on, but they will be fought in the knowledge markets with the new thermonuclear weapons called information and knowledge.... I want to emphasize that to meet the twin objective of growth with equity, knowledge cannot be the prerogative of a few; everyone in the society must have access to knowledge and become a knowledge worker. Nations which do not create knowledge societies will vanish into the oblivion. But those that do create these knowledge societies will have the potential to lead the world. India has a chance to become a leader provided it sets this process of creating the knowledge society in place with speed and determination.
Indian Science Congress(2000) Inaugural Address
The five point agenda for the new millennium is almost like a new Panchasheel for the new millennium. It is simply :
The beauty about these five points is that they will be as relevant in the year 2000 as they will be in the year 3000. All five of them flow into each other. All of them have to be taken together.... This Panchasheel links the child, the woman, the human, the society and the nation. It focuses on equity, or dignity if you like, with growth. It emphasizes bringing back the values and culture, for which this country was so famous. If we get these five fundamentals right, we can achieve everything. For example, the burning problem of population growth will be addressed meaningfully only when we build a woman centered family, with education to the female child being its essential fulcrum.
Launching the Indian Innovation Movement
We see today that there has been a sea change in the economic, political and technological environment the world over. Age old attitudes and mindsets are being discarded everywhere. India has been no exception; its economy has been unshackled and the forces of competition have been unleashed. A new vision of India as a major player in the global setting has been articulated. The wave of change sweeping the country and the world has thrown up myriad opportunities and challenges........In order to meet these challenges, just as we had launched a national freedom movement to unshackle ourselves from the foreign powers, we need to launch a national innovation movement.
Resurgence of Innovative India: The Challenge and The Strategy
Innovation is the key for the production as well as processing of knowledge. Indeed a nation’s ability to convert knowledge into wealth and social good through the process of innovation determines its future. I wish to focus on the challenge of the resurgence of an innovative India, since there has been a fear that for some time now, the ‘I’ in India has stood for imitation and
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Oration- Building Borderless Minds and Borderless Thinking
I am truly grateful to the Centre for Human Values for having invited me to deliver the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Oration. It is indeed a special honour. I am also privileged to be in the campus of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, a great institution, which is the pride of India.
Fun and Joy of Science : Learning from Anomalies and Discontinuties I deem it a great honour and a special privilege to deliver the 2002 Professor Brahm Prakash Memorial Lecture. When I look at the list of previous speakers, I find that they were men of great eminence. Several of them were closely associated with Professor Brahm Prakash, and knew him closely – both personally and professionally.I cannot lay claim to either of these qualifications. Yet I thought here was an opportunity for me to pay my homage to the memory of this great son of India. Professor Brahm Prakash was an outstanding scientist and a leader, who made lasting impact on Indian science and technology, especially in the field of materials development and high technology systems integration.
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