CII Communique November 2012

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Innovation‘Decade of Innovation India@ Year 2: A JourneyTowards Innovation Driven Economy,’ the flagshipinnovation event of the Global Innovation & TechnologyAlliance (GITA), CII, and the National InnovationCouncil (NInC) was organized on 30-31 Octoberin New Delhi. Prominent speakers from India andabroad, including industry leaders, entrepreneurs,and representatives of government and institutions,shared their experiences in innovations.Inaugurating the event, Mr. Sam Pitroda, Advisor to thePrime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure &Innovation, and Chairman, National Innovation Council,spoke about the four data centers that the Governmentis going to set up in Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad andBhubaneswar. Apart from these, individual level datacenters are to be built at the state level for monitoringand connectivity, he said.The first issue of the quarterly publication of Indianinnovations prepared by GITA and the TechnologyDevelopment Board (TDB), Department of Scienceand Technology (DST), was released during theevent.Mr Pitroda also gave away the GE India Innovation Awardto a student from IIT-Kanpur for designing a wheel chairwhich can manoeuver stairs. GE sponsored Rs.1 lakhas award money for theinnovator, along witha trophy and citation.He called for a billiondollar fund to feed oninnovative ideas from thebottom of the pyramidwhich are scalableand sustainable. TheGovernment will helpindustry to invest morein R&D and innovation,support small andmedium enterprisesChandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII; Dr Giora Yaron, Chairman of the Board, Executive Council, TelAviv University; Harkesh Kumar Mittal, Secretary, Technology Development Board (TDB), and Co-Chairman,GITA; Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovation,and Chairman, National Innovation Council, and Dr Naushad Forbes, Chairman, CII National Committee onInnovation, and Director, Forbes Marshall Ltd, releasing the TDB Report, in New Delhithrough incentivesand schemes and addsectoral clusters forcollaborative capacitybuilding, he said.Dr Naushad Forbes, Chairman, CII Committee onInnovation, and Director, Forbes Marshall, highlightedthree aspects of innovation. One, innovation was usuallyviewed as something esoteric and other-worldly butit need not necessarily be so. Two, innovation wasgenerally taken to mean as connected with technologywhereas it went much beyond that and could beanything from a portable waste management device toan interesting board game for a child. Three, peoplealways looked for big-bang innovations overlookingthe incremental innovations which were often equallysignificant and life-changing.Mr Harkesh Mittal, Secretary, TDB, and Co-Chairman,GITA, said that investment in innovation gave returnsin multiples of four—for instance, an annual investmentof $55 billion could lead to a 3 % increase in grossdomestic product at $230 billion.Prof Giora Yaron, Chairman of the Board, ExecutiveCouncil of Tel Aviv University, who was present on theoccasion, described the role of academia in spawninginnovations.Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII, appreciatedthe Government’s efforts in creating innovative vehiclessuch as GITA to promote industrial R&D.Communiqué November 2012 | 37
knowledge & innovation initiativesASEAN Agricultural Ministers with Sharad Pawar, Union Minister of Agriculture & Food Processing Industries, India, in New DelhiAndhra Pradesh Technology Developmentand Promotion CentrePATSAT: Patent Search and Analytics TrainingPATSAT training programme in HyderabadThe CII Andhra Pradesh Technology Developmentand Promotion Centre (APTDC), with SciTech PatentArt as the knowledge partner, organized PATSAT- atraining programme on learning the art of PatentSearching for Competitiveness, on 21-22 Septemberin Hyderabad.The training programme gave the participants anunderstanding of the concepts for searching for priorartpatents and the best practices in the field of PatentSearching and Analytics, through hands-on casestudies.Inaugurating the programme, Dr. Sumesh Reddy, SeniorDirector, Intellectual Property; Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories,emphasized the need and importance of conductingpatent searches before venturing into R&D.Science & Technology2nd ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting onAgriculture and Forestry, and ASEAN IndiaAgri-ExpoThe 2nd ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on Agricultureand Forestry, a three-day event held from 17-19 Octoberin New Delhi, was jointly organized by CII and theDepartment of Agricultural Research and Education,Indian Council of Agricultural Research.Ministers, Vice-Ministers, leaders and senior officialsfrom the ASEAN nations and India participated inthe Meet to collaborate more effectively for greaterutilization of resources in agriculture, industries andtrade.Mr Sharad Pawar, Union Minister of Agricultureand Food Processing Industries, India, and Mr.Vilayvanh Phomkhe, Minister of Agriculture, Lao PDR,inaugurated the ASEAN-India Agri-Expo, along withministers and representatives of the ASEAN membercountries. Dr. S. Ayyappan, Secretary, Departmentof Agriculture Research and Education, (DARE) andDirector General, ICAR, Mr Rajesh Ranjan, Director,DARE, and senior officials of DARE and ICAR werealso present on the occasion.The exposition was organized concurrently with themeeting to showcase the technologies of the regionto further promote and intensify cooperation betweenIndia and ASEAN nations in agriculture, forestry andallied sectors. Prominent institutions, industries and R&Dorganizations of the ASEAN region and India displayedrelevant technologies and products having potential foradoption and exchange.India-ASEAN News on Agriculture and Forestry, abi-annual newsletter published by the ICAR, waslaunched on the occasion. The newsletter will actas a window of activities, achievements, agriculturalresearch information and policy issues related to themember-countries.The Association of South-East Nations (ASEAN) is agroup of ten nations – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia,Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines,Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - which collectivelyworks to accelerate economic growth, social progressand cultural development in the region through mutualcooperation. The ASEAN-India Working Group onAgriculture aims to facilitate the promotion of jointresearch for the development of technologies forincreasing production and productivity in agriculturaland allied systems.38 | November 2012 Communiqué
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