VisionBuilding nation through sustainable innovations

based on natural resources

MotivationConvert knowledge into

technology so that every research contributes to the progress of

society

WE BELIEVE! ------CSIR “for” INDIA

InnovateTo Progress: sustainable development

To Replace: expensive technologies with cost effective inclusive technologies.

To Preserve: biodiversity

To Conserve: natural resources

Agriculture and Food Processing

Biodiversity

Climate change

Affordable healthcare

Environment & Renewable energy

Materials, Communication & Infrastructure

Entrepreneurship

FOCUS AREAS

Food Processing

Post harvest & Cold Storage

Agriculture Inputs

Inclusive Agriculture

System

Agriculture Inputs

Participatory research: Involving farmers and promoting two-way communication between labs and land.

Mapping soil fertility: Develop agro-climatic zone wise soil fertility maps to plan area and crop specific strategies.

Position biofertilizers in parallel to chemical fertilizers: By increasing the shelf life of biofertilizers and promote innovations in the area of liquid biofertilizers.

Finding a solution to urea loss due to leaching: Biomaterial encapsulated or coated urea granules for its slow release in soil.

Food and dietary diversification strategies: Nutritional analysis and scientific validation of indigenous food resources.

Recognize locality specific range of food groups to ensure food security.

Post harvest & Cold Storage

Designing cost effective environment friendly cold chains and standardizing best storage practises for individual commodities.

• India wastes fresh produce worth 44,000 crores every year.

• At present a storage facility for about 30 million MT produce is needed which accounts for an approximate investment of 55000 crores.

Food Processing

Fortification and Bioavailability of Nutrients: Develop low-cost appropriate technologies to increase bioavailability and stability of micronutrients in processed food.

Introduce cost effective technologies for food fortification;wheat flour fortified with iron, folic acid and vitamin B12

sugar with vitamin A, oils with fat soluble vitamins.

Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods: Ready and near-market platform technologies for processing health beneficiary food components (mainly secondary metabolites) into marketable, value –added functional food and nutraceutical products.

BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENTA PANACEA

Reservoirs of unexplored biological compounds for well- being; prevention and cure of diseases.Source of economic sustainability.Source of innovation in biotechnology

Maintaining ecological balance.Indicators of changing environment

India's biodiversity hotspots cover a significant proportion (16.86%) of the total global area under biodiversity hotspots.

Hotspots under India's political boundaries are:Western Ghats (64.95%)Himalaya (44.37%)Indo-Burma (5.13%)Andaman & Nicobar Islands (1.28%)

SaveWhat we have

RestoreWhat is damaged

Create For future

generations

To start with…..•Remote sensing based vegetation characterization of “biodiversity hotspots”.• Identifying transition zones in the distribution of endemic plants due to climate change induced species shift.•Reduce invasional meltdowns.

Drivers of extinctionHabitat loss

Over-exploitation

Climate change

Invasive species

Managing Climate Change

Adaptive Strategies

Mitigation Strategies Conservatio

n Strategies

Conservation Strategies

Scientific validation of traditional knowledge to identify micro-nutrient rich underutilized indigenous food resources

Mitigation Strategies

Trap methane from landfills and rice fields to generate energy.

Design appropriate feedstock for ruminants to reduce methane production due to enteric fermentation.

Adaptive Strategies

Develop and promote climate resilient quality seeds and harness the potential of unfavourable ecosystems.

Ensure nutrition security during climate change by designing appropriate research to study the impact of climate change on productivity and nutrient composition of major food grains.

Developing alternatives like aquaculture and dairy farming that can partly replace agriculture.

Developing cost effective technologies of recycling wastewater at larger scale.

Affordable Healthcare

Technology

Availability

Traditional Medicine

Early Diagnosis

Mod

ern

Scien

ce

Modern M

edicine

Traditional Medicine

The Golden TriangleProposed by Dr. RA Mashelkar

Traditional medicine

ChallengeBridging the gap from testing and early adoption to mass adoption

“there are 523 research papers on the herb Ashwagandha in the online database Pubmed. But the number of Ashwagandha-based drugs that a medical practitioner can prescribe is zero”

Standardization and safety studies of herbal medicine and other traditional medicine therapies

Promote clinical trials of well established traditional medicineDevelop training guidelines for country’s most commonly used traditional

medicine therapiesDesign end to end collaborative projects with other countries based on

leads from Indian Traditional Medicine

Early Diagnosis

Design affordable high quality diagnostic tools for early diagnosis of diseases e.g. malaria, dengue

Availability

More affordable and readily available painless treatment for juvenile diabetes

Safety and efficacy studies of generic medicinesWorking towards innovation in the field of “super

generic drugs”

Technology

Enhancing biological imaging for medical diagnostics through “quantum dots”, which are semiconducting nano-crystals that offer optical detection up to 1,000 times better than conventional dyes used in many biological tests, such as MRIs.

Using bioinformatics as a platform for drug discovery

Promote research for safe and effective treatment of diseases which represent the

greatest burden, particularly for the underprivileged

ENVIRONMENT

Renewable energyWaste managementGreen technologies

Prevent energy losses

Environment

Renewable energy

• Innovations for large scale cost effective energy production through solar and wind power.• Developing and integrated water-microbe based photo-bioenergy system to harness

solar energy. • Exploring algae as sources of liquid fuels can be an attractive proposition as algae are

photosynthetic renewable resources, with high lipid content, have faster growth rates than plant cells, and are capable of growth in saline waters which are unsuitable for agriculture• Using carbon nano-tubes to make wind mill blades that are longer, stronger and light

weight than other blades and can increase the amount of electricity that wind mills can generate.• Introducing cost effective instruments for generation of green energy, e.g.

Photovoltaic cells

Waste management• Conduct research to utilize microbes and plants for bioremediation against heavy metal

contamination in soils.• Design effective and time saving technologies for metal recovery from waste.• Design models to control soil pollution from industrial activities.• Promoting research for faster degradation of synthetic plastics already present in the

environment.

Green technologiesoDeveloping “neo-natural river reconstruction technologies” to restore the ecological

vibrance of our river systems.o Introducing low cost technologies to improve quality of drinking water oBiodegradable and photodegradable plastics- popularization and large scale production.

Prevent energy losses Explore and introduce innovative methods to reduce losses in energy transmission and

distribution, e.g. developing wires containing carbon nanotubes which offers much lower resistance than high-tension wires currently used in grids.

• Research initiatives in the area of nano-fabrication.• Conceptualization to commercialization in the area of

ceramics, glass, bio-polymers and composite materials.• Developing nano-biomaterials as efficient drug delivery

systems• Developing high tensile strength light weight biomaterials

to be used in aircrafts and space shuttles

Materials

• Upgrading optical fibre technology to make it “ fibre to premises” .

• Building large optical fibre local area networks.

Communication

• Innovations in highway construction• Developing techniques to bind different materials

(difficult to manage/to be disposed substances) in a way that it does not compromise the critical performance properties of road.

• Using fly-ash (residue from coal burning power plants) and silica fumes (residue from metal producing furnaces) as additives to port-land cement

Infrastructure

Entrepreneurship

Win Win

Structure

Public Private

Partnership

Community based

research programmes

Goals

Social upliftment

Sustainability

Rural entrepreneurship…….small researches that can make big differences

Food processing: Create state specific plans to attract domestic and foreign investment in processed food CII has estimated that the food processing sector has potential for attracting investment of US$ 33billion in next ten years.

Promoting handicrafts and associated technologies for rural women e.g. Dry flower technology –an innovation by CSIR-NBRI

Reviving Khadi- from Freedom fabric to Fashion fabric Promoting cultivation of medicinal plants and processing extracts, oil,

resin .

TAKE AWAY……..

Innovation

StrategyProcess Innovations: new means of producing an existing product

Technical Innovations: creating new

Administrative Innovations: new organization design which better supports the creation and propagation of sustainable researches that reach end users.

Grassroot Innovations: product or process created at the bottom of the pyramid, usually due to necessity, hardship and challenges

INNOVATIONS National needs: CSIR mandate in congruence with national goals. Labs should work for regional development by “problem solving” of respective

states through research and innovations. Long term perspectives : Global needs Internal alignment: Organizational level Horizontal growth: setting up CSIR labs in Chhattisgarh and North-Eastern

States

Job enrichment and Vertical growth : to improve individual competencies and

performance levels for individual growth, organizational growth and national

growth

Determining the performance gap: difference between what the organization

wants to do and what it is actually doing; where we are and where we want to

be.

CSIR………………A Partner in Development

Supporting self reliance and nation building

Meeting challenges of technology denial area

Changing R&D from process development

focus to product

development niches

Globally benchmarking

science & technology

Niche Areas Affordable healthcare Sustainable Energy Chemistry & Environment Smart & Functional

Materials Engineering Structure/

Design & Electronics

Collaborative Research

Building an innovation

ecosystem where innovations are allowed to grow

from idea to fruition

Developing People- Centric Approaches

Transform“Population” to

“Human Resource” by

encouraging skill development

State of the art Research

Traditional wisdom

Sustainable development

Transforming India into an “Innovation led economy”