Brain Gain: Promoting research and innovation

Team Phoenix Indian Institute of Technology Patna

The number of patent application by Indians is only 0.3% of the global applications although we share 17.3% of world population

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China Japan USA Germany India

No. of applications for patent(in lakhs)

Source: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

49.6

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China Japan USA Germany India

Ph.D awarded (in thousand)

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• National knowledge commission survey shows that MSME(micro medium and small enterprises) involved in majority of innovations in India)

• Lack of proper system to cross check research papers resulting rejection from international communities

• Then number of files handled by a patent officer is about 120 which results lagging of patent processes

• Lack of experiment oriented educational culture among students leads to less number of research students

Innovation and research: current scenario

Problem solving strategy

Inception of easily accessible ‘Centre of excellences’ normalized across the country

Promotion of research and innovation through autonomous PPP model ‘Centre of Excellences’

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• Common platform for academician and professionals to collaborate

• Access to public on request

• Opportunity for eminent personalities to give back to society

PPP Model Centre of Excellences

• Public Private Partnership infrastructure development • Autonomous, initially mentored by centrally funded institutions distributed normally across the country

• Separate system to speedup patent formalities

Implementation model

• Opportunity for even those who didn’t receive formal education

• Provide better infrastructure for MSME at minimum cost

• Common knowledge pool (research paper, books…)

Advantage over exiting system

Human Resource management

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Single window Procedure for NRI scientist under a ‘Council for center of excellences’

Exchange and visiting programs

Opportunities for retired scientist and professionals

Incentives based on Qualification and experience

Industrial professionals for specific projects

INITIALIZATION RUNNING FUTURE EXPANSION

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Initialization

• Initial step taken by government

• Private-Public Partnership for fund raising

• Established in main educational hubs.

• Normally distributed over population

Mentorship

• Mentored by IITs, IIMs, DRDO, ISRO, AIIMS…

• Tie-up with prestigious institutions for benefit of professionals and students

Human Resource

• Retired scientists, professors…

• Opportunity for eminent NRI talent pool

• Bright students as Interns

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INITIALIZATION RUNNING FUTURE EXPANSION

• Autonomous body • Lead by experts in respective fields • Each center specialized on specific field • Equipped with State of the art scientific instruments • Network of scientists for Peer review of research papers • Network of Centre of excellences under a common council • Government private profit division in mutually funded research • Common online data base of all researches done in the country • Facility accessible to public to carryout independent research on request • Industry oriented research of private/public companies with academicians • Authority over technology/human resource transfer from one center to another • Patent filing system under this councils’ administrative power with more human resource • Frequent training sessions by experts to MSME (Micro, Small and medium enterprises) on request

Plan Layout

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INITIALIZATION RUNNING FUTURE EXPANSION

Autonomous

In each innovation center to propose crucial requirements to higher authority

System for maintaining physical infrastructure

Supreme Counsel

Sub-counsel of each center

Center of Excellence

Patent filing system

Patent offices in each center with more human resource to handle files faster

Working structure

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• Extension centers in various universities to bridge the gap between students and research

• Internship/project experience to bright students

• Incubation to viable innovations and initial cost gathering using government schemes

• Fun research center for primary and high-school students

• 10-years span innovation policy changing

• Magazines and news letters for students of every age group to increase their interest in science and research

• Increase the diversity of research to various fields as per the local requirement

INITIALIZATION RUNNING FUTURE EXPANSION

Future Plans

Approximate cost estimation* (per center)

Capital distribution ratio (Central govt :State govt :Industry) : 50:25:25

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Allotment Cost in rupees

Total non recurring cost(per center) 150 Cr

Total recurring cost per year 50 Cr

Workforce development expenditure per year 20 Cr

Initial Total cost 220 Cr

*inspired from present PPP model of IIITs

Main beneficiaries • Budding scientists from student community

• Companies involved in R&D in every section

• NRI scientists and professional communities

• Scientists currently working in foreign organizations

• Retired scientists who wish to continue in their fields

• A better platform for industrial-academia collaboration

• Companies currently using patents owned by foreigners

• Better access to knowledge base of country through a new platform

• Better job/research opportunity for talented brains of India in India

• People who are having enough interest and knowledge in particular field but not much qualification to join formal research stream

• Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) (Universal access to high class infrastructure with less capital cost )

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Challenges • Need of Special salary Package according to

professional merit

• Availability of Modern Scientific equipments in India

• Getting confidence of industries to work with Public sector institutions

• Reluctance of Government to invest more in Research and development area

• Hiring professional in initialization time

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Risks • Nepotism in hiring professionals • Miss-use of ‘public access’ system • Lack of confidence of students in taking

research as their career • Private influence in policy making

References • National knowledge commission : www.knowledgecommission.gov.in

• The Hindu, The Indian Express and Times of India articles

• Sinha, K. (2012, October 1) India accounts for just 3.5% of global research output. The Times of India.

• Bibliometric study of India’s scientific Publication Output during 2001-2010 Evidence for changing trends Department of science and Technology,Govt of India

• World Intellectual property Organization (WIPO): official website

• www.nature.com

• Science and technology Innovation Policy 2013 : Department of Science and Technology,Govt of India

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