Transcript Innovations for Knowledge Management

Innovations for Knowledge
Management
Dr A Amudeswari
Director, CEFIPRA
22 June 2010
Knowledge in the Competitive
Landscape
– Currently global economy is knowledge driven and has
created a competitive landscape
– Individuals, companies, countries compete globally
transcending borders gaining competitive advantage
through generation, capitalization and leveraging of the
knowledge
– In this milieu government, enterprises and knowledge
based institutions play a major role in the economic
transformation by carving knowledge pathways
(developing strategic alliances, technology partnerships,
nurturing intellectual capital, exploit core competencies)
– The challenge lies in the management of the knowledge
generated (scientific research and the technological
embodiments) which can create space in the landscape
Innovation in the Knowledge
Based Economy
• Innovation gains for the manufacturing sector a competitive edge
in the global market trade. To innovate requires creative people.
Creativity requires an ambience and nourishment
• The youth of this country must be inspired to innovate. Education
can play an inspirational role by triggering the imagination of the
young, by nurturing creativity, by encouraging the spirit of enquiry
and questioning attitude.
• Expertise based pathways to innovation by a single or group of
professionals
• Corporate India can seed new knowledge based initiatives through
customer interface, external influences
• Universities and national institutes are key agencies for creating,
nurturing and diffusing scientific and technological knowledge.
R&D expenditures in higher education sector are economic growth
stimulators. Universities can be the change agents in bringing
about a transformation in the system of education and position
India strongly in the knowledge economy by providing the
ambience and atmosphere for youth to innovate, by connecting
the aspirations of the youth to the corporate world
Innovation landscape of India:
Enabled by policy support
Human Capacity/
resource Supply
Political Will/
Policy and international
cooperation
Institutional
mechanisms
PPPs for
demand /
absorption
Innovation: Promotional measures
• Establishment of Innovation Foundation
– With provisions for functional autonomy for
internal governance and measures of linking
informal and formal innovators; motivating
support for innovators
• National& International Innovation Projects
• Simultaneous focus on accelerated and
inclusive growth through innovation mix
• Forging alliances for promoting innovation
with private enterprises globally
• Innovation Day celebrated
• Idea Fund support
Innovation for Inspiring Youth: INSPIRE
Programme of DST: Creating Space in the
Innovation Landscape
Catching them Young
INSPIRE
1 Million Science Award
@ Rs 5000
10-15 Yrs
excitements
15-17 Yrs
Summer Camp with
science leaders
Motivating experience
Scholarships In Higher
Education (SHE)
17-22 yrs funding
With mentoring
Assured Opportunity in
Research (AORC)
22-27 Yrs
Scholarship building
27-32 Yrs
Career opportunity
Equity Participation from Industry for Inspiring India to Grow
Indicators for Development: S&T
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During 1980’s India occupied 8th position in scientific research in the
world
In 1990, the ranking was 12th
In 2003, India was out of the top 10 countries
The reason-decline in scientific manpower (perhaps due to the demand
pull from IT sector)
The number of scientific manpower (PhD’s) in India is 157 per million
population, in Korea 180, in Japan 80, in China 850
The global share in scientific articles (2005) is 7.8% for Japan, 5.9
China, Korea 2.3, India 2.1 and Singapore 0.5%
India’s R&D Intensity (as % of GDP) is <1%, Korea 3.2%, Japan 3.4%,
China 1.4%, Taiwan 2.5%, Singapore 2.4%
The R&D investments in India are 80% from Govt and 20% from private,
in S.Korea & Singapore 50% from Govt and 50% from pvt, China &
Taiwan 40% from Govt and 60% from private, Japan 20% from Govt and
80% from pvt
Innovation in R&D is strongly coupled to patent generation. The global
share in patent filing (2006) reveals that Japan has 29%, China 7.3%,
Korea 9.8%,
Knowledge Generation
Finance
Business
Strategic
Societal
relevance
•Technology
•Technology
•Technology
Policy
Issues
Human
Resource
Infrastructure
Translational Research
Industry driven
Application
oriented
Innovation projects
Pre
competiti
ve
Explorato
ry
Public funded
Research
Purposeful journey
Passion for science pursuit
Generation of new knowledge
Leadership in science
Expertise & Excellence
High level science
networks
of international excellence
Knowledge generation in R&D
Institutions
• Institutions strongly connected to industrial sector need to
align and orient their R&D activities to industry needs,
demands & priorities
• Institutions focussing on lead ideas based on leap frog
rather than incremental innovation
• Institutions also have groups engaged in blue sky research
• Focus is on precompetitive research aimed at providing
global leadership and which ensures staying ahead of the
industry by 5-7 yrs
• Translational research aims at providing technology
solutions to problems faced by industry
• PPP model for conversion of R&D leads into commercially
viable products
• Development of Core competencies in specialized areas
Knowledge Partnerships: In R&D
Institutions
• Networking as a mode of research and
development
– Building coherence and synergy with shared
objectives, resources and cogeneration of
values: Government departments adopt this
• New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership
Initiative
– Building private-Public Partnerships in proof of
concept mode of innovations, delivering
outputs already in many areas. New experience
in innovating gained
TBI Model: For Promotion of
Innovative R&D
• Provides opportunity for testing an idea/concept
• Potential for translation of idea/concept into process/product
can be assessed
• Leads to entrepreneurial capabilities
• Risk minimization is possible
• Offers scope for promoting innovation
• Requires wide publicity and outreach mechanisms
• If linked to R&D laboratories, success rates could be higher
• If set up in industrial clusters on co-sharing basis, likelihood of
start up initiatives graduating into full fledged companies
higher
• The incubation model has led to generation of technologies
Market
Regulation
Policies
Demand
Cost
competitiveness
Concept
R&D
Idea
Generation
Individuals
Industry sponsored/supported
From Companies capable of
coping with risk
Govt
Funding/
Contract
Researc
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Scale
up
Design
Product
TBI
Process
Lead
Promote
Start up
companies
PPP
Co
Investment
Innovation
Commercialization
Risk
Financ
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Innovation & Industrial Research
CEFIPRA: Creating Space in the
Innovation and Knowledge Landscape
Strategies
for
SME’s
to innovate
Competitiveness
building
Alliances
In specific
areas
Development
of
core
competencies
Basic R&D
Strong
collaboration
CEFIPRA
Industrial
Research
Exchange
programmes
Thank You
[email protected]
• Explosion of new knowledge
• Methods and strategies to harness this
new knowledge
• Connecting knowledge generation to
enterprises
• translational research for gaining trade
advantages
Knowledge Management
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Alliances in international cooperation format
Support generic technologies
Collaborations in R&D
Sharing of knowledge
Policy support
Political will
Investments in Science and technology education
Entrepreneurial initiatives
Making SME’s competitive through financial support processes
Knowledge gap mapping
Transformational initiatives
Planning Technology choices relevant to societal needs
Technology creation (patent)
Technology prospecting and forecasting