Team Utopian Vision

BRAIN GAIN : Promoting Research And Innovation

IIT Kanpur

Anika Jain Ankush Sachdeva Manish Sharma Riya Khurana Varsha Lalwani

India being second populous country in the world with 54% under 25 years, shares only 3.5% of world research output and has been ranked 66th in Global Innovation Index

Low share of R&D in the country’s GDP

• Out of a total global R&D spend of $1143 billion India’s share is a meagre 2.1 %

• share of GDP for research and innovation as low as 0.9 per cent

Lack of private sector participation

• Government sources pick up 75-80 per cent of the R&D expenditure, and only 20-25 per cent spent by private sector and a mere three per cent by universities.

Lack of Innovation and Recognition

• In year 2012, china and US filed for more than 4 lac patents compared to India’s 15,717 patents

• Poor design and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) laws

• Pendency and stock pilling of patents filled

Lack of Motivation and awareness • Only 1% of Indian undergraduate students go for PHDs within India and others who go

abroad for higher studies only 5% of them ever return

• Many competent Indian scientists aspire to be ineffectual administrators [due to administrative power and political patronage], rather than do the kind of science that makes a difference

Poor research infrastructure

• Low level production of PhDs , both in terms of quality and quantity

• Technology in labs is not updated and one available have maintainance issue as most of them are imported

Undergraduate Research Internship

Program

•Competitive program pairing students and faculties at top institutions and research labs by a 12 week research project of mutual interest

•Motivate students to do research internship in India

• Industrial projects can also be offered as part of these internship

Collaboration with industries and

Foreign Universities

• Industries would be encouraged to outsource their research projects to Indian University Professors

• Collaborating with Foreign Universities

• It will attract bright students to join PHD programmes in India and limit Brain Drain to some extent

Accelerating patent examination

process

• Outsourcing of Prior Art Document Searches

• Special fast track examination procedure for some patents

• Reduce pendency and stock pilling of filled patents

• Reduce workload of examiner

Spreading Awareness

• IISC Bangalore organizes a day event named OPEN DAY, where everyone is allowed to visit their laboratories, research work there is exhibited

• Likewise these type of events can be conducted in various research labs and institutions for school students

Proposed Solution

A single centralized

system

Industrial Collaboration

Undergraduate Research Internship Program

Project Entries

• Professors submit the project they wish to give to students for summers

Students fill their

preferences

• Students apply for projects they wish to do and submit a proposal along with their CV

Professors select

students

• Professors select students based on their CVs and personal interviews for summer internship under them

A nation-wide program to provide research summer internships to undergraduate students at Indian universities

Benefits

Professors get job

satisfaction

Students get

exposure to research

Change mind-set

about higher studies

Benefits over existing programs

Better monitoring system

More participation Real life projects

Increasing Awareness

Collaboration with industries and Foreign Universities

Industries would be encouraged to outsource their research projects to Indian University

Professors

The patent rights on any innovation shall be based on a pre decided memoranda of

understanding

The industries would have to fund NInC to be eligible for this collaboration

Research projects can be added to the UG internship program. It can help companies to

identify their future employees

Industrial projects can be given to students doing Masters as their thesis project or to

senior UG students as Btech Project

Industries

Best 100 PHD students would get an opportunity to complete 2 years of the PHD in

a foreign university

The tuition fee shall be borne by the government.

A researcher in US would be the co-guide for the students

Students to be send to US on J-1 visa which requires the scholar to return to their home country for at

least 12 months immediately after completing their programme

It will help improve research output of Indian universities and develop better relations with

foreign research groups

Foreign Universities

Effort in Intellectual Property Activities

Increasing and Enhancing Examination Procedure

Special fast track examination procedure for some patents

•Applications relating to inventions that have already been put into practice or are planned to be put into practice within two years (working-related applications)

• Applications which have foreign patent families (internationally filed applications)

•Applications filed by universities and renowned research institutions which are expected to contribute their results to society

•Environmental technology related applications

Patents filled and granted in India

Source : http://www.teriin.org/div/briefing_paper_patents.pdf

Policies to be adopted by Indian Patent Office

Reducing pendency and stock pilling of filled patents and workload of examiner •Department for Prior Art Document Searches

•To be done by a separate, dedicated workforce, thereby not wasting examiner’s time •Online database of similar past patents •Leading to faster scrutiny of patents

Industrial monitoring body

University monitoring body

Government body

Core Council

UG Portal Management

Team

Finance Management

Media and Publicity Team

PHD Foreign collaboration management

team

Data and Statistics Team

Recruitment Team

Monitoring body

Making NInC the central body for funding and management of research projects

Channelizing funds to university professors based on their past record and university reputation

Collaboration with Industries and foreign universities

Managing UG research internship program

Monitoring body The implementation of the proposed solution at the industrial level will be monitored by: Industries

• Making a committee of important persons from various industries participating to look after the quality of research and development going on under the program

• The committee will be responsible for the allocation of funds to various sections

• All the industries participating will have to submit a report of all the projects undertaken under this program

The implementation of proposed solution at universities level will be monitored by Universities

• A committee consisting of deans and faculty members of various participating universities

• The committee will be ensuring participation from their faculty members and students and will also be responsible for proper allocation of funds

• The committee members will parallel make efforts to improve research condition in India, to provide a better infrastructure

Awareness and other funding issues will be monitored by Government body

• The committee will be responsible for looking after proper channeling of funds and will have to submit a report to the central body about the progress in each section

• The committee will also be responsible for conducting awareness campaigns, advertisements and will try to involve as many industries and universities possible

• This body will be responsible to measure G-index, H-index, increase in number of PhD students and research projects in universities as well as Industries

Monitoring Bodies

Students

Stakeholders

Professors/

Guides

Entrepreneurs

Industries

Universities

National Innovation Council shall be the main executive body

Executive body Institutes of

national importance-IITs and NITs and other research centres

Infrastructure

The existing funding bodies like DST, DRDO, DBT etc shall be funding the NInC

Funding bodies

Leveraging existing setup

100 crores • Multinational PHD programme

• 100 students tuition fees/accomodation charges/travel grants

200 crores • Undergraduate Internship programme

• 50,000 UG students, each paid Rs 10,000 stipend

• Professors being paid summer salary Rs 30,000

200 crores • Extra Manpower

• Expanded committee for NInC

• Professors being paid summer salary Rs 30,000

Extended funding required for new solution(per annum)

Impact of Proposed solution

Motivation to PhD

students in India Increase in

number of patents and

research papers by

Indians

Increase in G-index

and H-index of Indian Scientists

Improvement in

facilities for research

Industrial Growth and developme

nt

Growth of GDP of India

Promoting Research, Development and Innovation, growth of indigenous industries and research opportunities in India

Growth in GDP

The solution is trying to increase the role of industries in R&D in India like other countries to create a self-sustaining system where both industries and researchers are mutually benefitted.

Industries’ role

The proposed idea is already implemented in various countries, for example summer research internship program like GSoC, Globalink Mitacs Canada; PhD exchange Program in China; and outsourcing of Patent policy in Japan.

Sustainability

The proposed solution aims at targeting every state of the country and churn out the

hidden potential in each of them. For this we need state level committees to look after its

implementation.

Aiming at benefits of all

The Impact it will create

• If Industries don’t get interested in funding projects and government do not increase the share of R&D in GDP, the proposal will be in short of funds

Corruption:

• The funds might not be properly allocated to each state

• There might be corruption involved in various levels such as Recruitment procedures, selection of PhD students etc.

Collaboration with Industries and foreign universities might not be easy

Selection of PhD students for exchange program will be challenging

Students may not be aware of such program

The patent Procedure takes long in India

Mitigation Factors Gradually with increase in involvement by industries, major funding will be provided by them as it is now in many countries • Organize awareness

campaigns, release advertisements

• Funds for next projects will be supplied if the records of previous ones are satisfactory

• A fast track system for the patents filed

Economic Challenges

Political and Legal Challeng-es

Implementa-tion Challenges

Risks and Challenges Involved

• India Lagging Behind in R&D http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/b-s-raghavan/india-lagging-behind-in-

rd/article4108434.ece

• Pump Priming with US horsepower http://www.iiitd.edu.in/~jalote/GenArticles/ChinaPhDStrategyETsept07.pdf

• Faculty Life in China http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/H-Mohrman_28Feb11_p83-100.pdf

• Unshackling Our Thinkers http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-21/edit-page/31080083_1_research-grants-

faculty

• Govt. likely to change funding process to universities and institutions http://www.edu-leaders.com/content/govt-likely-change-funding-process-universities-and-institutions

• Protection of patents in India http://www.teriin.org/div/briefing_paper_patents.pdf

• Government Efforts in Intellectual Property Activities http://www.jpo.go.jp/shiryou_e/toushin_e/pdf/annual_report2012/part3.pdf

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