Vallidolid spain presentation on creative communities, innovative individuals

anil k gupta

National innovation Foundation ( nifindia.org)

[email protected]

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Creative communities, innovative individuals :

harnessing imagination of minds on the margins for yet another renaissance

Creative communities, innovative individuals :

harnessing imagination of minds on the margins for yet another renaissance

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Anil k guptaHoney bee network and national innovation foundation, sristi [email protected] www.sristi.org/anilg blog [email protected]

Honey Bee network ( 1987-88 )

A nameless, faceless innovator or traditional knowledge holder comes in contact with the

Network and gets the identity

Mapping the creative mind at grassroots

Cultural

Educational

Technological

Institutional

folkloric

Leveraging long tail and compressing nose of

innovations

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Long tail of innovation ( only a few achieve scale, a large number sell a few pieces or in a few

communities)

Long nose of innovation:Take long time to come into market

Room for maneuver

Let scale not be the enemy of the sustainability :

logic of the Long Tail, investing in ideas, technologies with limited diffusion, without that sustainability is threatened

Let small scale innovations be not ignored, they enrich the eco-system for innovation and entrepreneurship

CCCC: Curiosity, CREATIVITY, COMPASSION,

COLLABORATION

Blending

What is a skill: how do we convert such rich skills into enterprises, is economic meltdown a good time to create new icons of hope

Bhabi Mahato: an unrecognized genius

Incubation of innovative ideas:

• Why so much talk about micro finance but none about micro venture finance; creating an ecosystem for start-ups

• Supporting people without connections and collateral

Innovation

InvestmentEnterprise

GOLDEN TRIANGLE FOR REWARDING CREATIVITY

• Design that matters, makes a difference and is rooted in culture and traditions

• Fab-labs( fabrication at the street corners, common fabrication workshops, common tool rooms)

Innovations in institutions, incentives and intermediary mechanisms

Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels:

Future sources of learning, creativity and innovation would

not be restricted to formal boundaries of organisations.

Polycentric Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels:

Inclusive leadership requires dealing with dissent and

diversity:

Ownership of future strategies cannot be widespread if the contribution for creating them is only from a chosen few. 

Building capacity at different levels requires distribution of

responsibilities. 

 Creating networks:

No one organization is likely to possess sufficient information or knowledge to enable it to achieve its goals

Shaping future requires working sometimes without templates:

Integration of different streams of thought and action require incorporation, assimilation and adaptation of the strengths of each system

Shadows of sustainable spirit: trying to look for frugal, diverse, resilient and simultaneous solutions, as nature does all the time

Many castles were built in India during long spells of drought to generate jobs: any lessons here?

http://www.unurth.com/537394/Pablo-Herrero-David-de-la-Mano-Valladolid-Spain

Patan patola a seven hundred year old tradition-: cultural

entreprenurship

Leadership is to start early: building consciousness among children so that they internalize the logic of future societal transformation

Ignite

• Recognising creativity of children and nurturing their dreams

Starting early

I want a high tech school buswhich can give alert signal asit approaches my bus stop. Iwould not miss my bus this

way!!: pallavi, 9th class

I want to integrate thegait of a person with a mobile. As walking style differ person to person,

the software will be able to identify the signals based on the body movements while walking

If the mobile will sense a different movement once actwill lock itself and send a message about its location

predefined number. : anurag rathor 9th class

Why pierce skin toget a blood test done?I wish to make a blood testing systemthat would do the required test byscanning the skin surface or testingthe skin excretions :srishti class iv

Breathing sensor apparatus to assist physically challenged

This system consists of a circuit which uses the energy generated through breathing exercise. It may display several options such as food, It thus enables paralyzed people articulate their wish and be self-reliant in routine activities. The technology has a range of applications like operating a wheelchair, electronic appliances, prevention of accidents, detecting thefts, etc.

Susant Patnaik, Class VIII, now in 12th Bhubaneshwar

Back Back

Nisha ChaubeNOIDABag with folding seat

Yathartha SaxenaPantnagarTriangular wheels

Sarojini Mahajan

Delhi

Charging mobile through human pulse: Idea

Prakhar ParasharHoshangabadIncreasing life of mosquito coil by almost 20%

Piyush AgarwalHazaribaghAutomatic withdrawal system for clothesline for rains

Rain Water Harvesting UmbrellasOjasvi Goel & Saihiel BakshiDelhi

Ullas Keshav, Poornesh A S, Amogh M Hooli, Vignesh D Nernekar, Akshay TulasigeriDakshina Kannada

LPG Exhausting IndicatorAn electronic device that informs the user that the LPG in the gas cylinder is going to exhaust. When the weight of the cylinder decreases beyond a certain fixed weight, the signal gets activated.

Jallandhar

Jallandhar

Remya was in class tenth, when she designed this

Networking innovators with engineering students: www.Techepdia.in

• 100k projects by 350k students from 500+engg colleges

Leadership is to ask questions about constituents which have no vote : nature and perfect strangers

Leadership is not having to live with problems unsolved indefinitely

CPIK( Community Platform for Innovations and Knowledge management

Solutions for the poor people, by the poor

Non stick clay pan: Rs 60 /= Mansukh Bhai Prajapati, Surendra Nagar, Gujarat

Md Rojadeen: cooker for coffeecreativity in champaran

( 22nd shodh yatra Dec 2008)

Service at your door step:Sheikh Jahangir, Jalgaon, Maharshtra

Fortune at the Top of Ethical and Innovation Pyramid

Scooter mounted floor mill Scooterbased washing machine

Biomass gasification systemInnovator : Mr. Rai Singh Dahiya, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan Scout : Direct entry Received on 18-10-2006

• The system has unique gasification unit and filtering mechanism. Gasifier is compact and surrounded by water jacket.

• Producer gas is cooled by heat exchanger (water jacket)

• Producer gas is cleaned by a grit filter and a baffle filter (having perforated and non perforated plates/baffles surrounded by local dry grass)

• Unlike other gasifiers, gas is not scrubbed by water

• Ideal fuel: Dry wood (upto 30-35 cm long), coconut shell and coconut husk (MC < 20% db)

• Calorific value of producer gas: 1000 kCal/m3, Composition: CO 21 %, H2 12%, CO2 15% (tested by TERI)

• Price: Rs. 25000/- per kVA

Multi purpose processing machineInnovator Mr. Dharamveer, Yamuna Nagar, HaryanaScout Direct Entry Received on 30-1-2006

• The machine is capable of processing various herbs like juice of aloe vera, gel and essence from left over of aloe vera, juice of amla, jamun, mango, tomato, orange, etc.; essence from chilly, coriander, flowers, etc.

• Pulp of fruits is fed to machine for juice extraction • The feeding rate (almost equal to rate of juice (output)) is

150 kg/h• The left over of aloe vera leaves (after separating the pulp)

is fed in batches of 40-42 kg along with water (1:0.5) for extraction by distillation. Adequate heat is applied at the bottom of the vessel by LPG stove.

• The essence from aloe vera is evaporated and is collected in a separate vessel after getting condensed and the viscous residue left in the vessel is like a gel which is collected from the bottom outlet and zilactin is added @1 g/lit for converting it into useful cosmetic along with flavors

• Machine price: Rs. 1,35,000

Phone operated switch & othersMr. Prem Singh SainiMr. Prem Singh Saini

Compressed air car: join hands

Mr. Kanak Gogoi

Automatic watering in flower pots and others Mr. Abdul KaleemMr. Abdul Kaleem

Video-electric shock Video-flower pot

A problem unsolved, but not any more

• Leadership is not having to live with

problems unsolved indefinitely

Frugality is thus imperative, it is not a choice

Learning from nature

• Can we learn from common people while designing services and products for vertical and horizontal supply chain?

• Has frugality of nature has some thing to do with our own need to be frugal?

Reducing footprint

• The design of packaging material, shelves, transportation system and consumption patterns will undergo a change once different circles of production and consumption exchanges / networks are visualized over space and time.

• Thus, only for long term and long distance consumption, one would use sturdy packaging material.

• There will be another interesting spillover effect. Once we start modifying the logistical chain, the community markets will start becoming competitive. Face to face interaction among consumers and producers will take place more often. The whole politics of regional and sectoral development will undergo a change.

• The proximal transactions do not have to be analyzed through the prisms of

remote supply chains.

Multi-functionality:• Higher the multi-functionality, lesser the waste and better the

resource utilization. Most cultures in developing countries are multi-functional in their orientation.

• The skills, resources and tools for multi functional designs are quite different from the ones needed for specialized and single function goods and services. There is a higher redundancy, resource wastage and consumption of energy.

• Multi functional devices and services may be able to build much higher feedback loops and thus reduce waste, ensure higher stability and justify better quality consumption.

Diversity of design

• Idea is to provide information to the consumer about degree of biodiversity in the habitats from which raw materials are sourced.

• Since vegetative colours may not always be uniform, the consumer preferences will have to molded to prefer variable colours. Just as markets created preference for uniform colour, taste, shape, texture, etc., the challenge in future is to do the opposite.

• While doing so, the packaging and transporting logistics would have to be adapted to the new needs.

• A whole range of technological innovations will be needed, for instance, to package the diverse fruits, vegetables and other materials. Human needs and preferences for a sustainable world must guide and trigger technological innovations and consequent supply chains and logistical arrangements and not the other way around.

Time for re-definition of our logistical goals has come.

Leadership is to see the intertwining of sacred with profane, in pursuit of sustainability: CREATING PUBLIC STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Relationship between Innovation and Standards

• How does Standard affect evolution of Ideas and Innovation??

• Case 1: QWERTY Keyboard

– Avoid jams in typewriter while typing fast, by placing unrelated letters together and slowing down typing speed

– Slower the typing rate, less frequent is the Jam

Rethinking standards to trigger innovations

• Dvorak Keyboard : 20% faster typing speed• Movement of hands reduced to 1/16th

• Despite the advantages, 99.99% keyboards are QWERTY based

• QWERTY’s de facto standard for 20 years, hindered the innovation for the society, even if it improved performance!

Voluntarism is the essence of volition:

Innovations in civil society sector: social innovations –for elderly, lone mothers, minorities

JANAKI Devi,

Western Champaran, Bihar,

innovator of a herbal pesticide, patent filed by NIF on her innovation, testing done in SRISTI natural product lab

At 70, he is young, why are u old already? Saidullah, champaran, Bihar

Blending

love, learning and loving

learninglove

living

What can Spain, India and China learn from Brazilian and other

slums

Mr Ubirajara, 47, in slums around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, inventor of stand on front wheel of cycle

More stable, easier to vend things, portable bench

Rider Induced bicycle Mr. Kanak Das, Assam

Bicycle based sprayer Mr. Mansukhbhai Jagani, Gujarat

Bicycle with gear Mr. Jayanti J Patel,Gujarat Bamboo bicycle

Mr. Dodhi Pathak, Assam

Amphibious BicycleMohd. Saidullah, Bihar

Bicycle based mobile spray pumpSubhas Vasantrao Jagtap, Maharastra

Multipurpose Bicycle Md. Kamruddin, Rajasthan

Bicycle operated..\nif09\Video\vikram_rathore.mpg pump

Mr. Vikram Rathore, AP

Bicycle based portable Pump Mr. Nasiruddin Gayen, WB

Bicycle based Innovations

Honey Bee network in Limpopo, South africa

Modified donkey cart(One among many designs )

Differential-40 kg, what is it

doing here, amrutbhai

What it was????What it became

CHIN: Shanzhai Breathing Apparatus

Honey Bee Network in china TUFE

The crude breathing machine assembled by Ji

jun hai, Meng wen hai and Ma bao shun

pumping life into Xiaoyan’s lungs!

Empathetic innovations

Pollution control device

Pollution controlling silencer

1

• Most of the stationary engines and genset run without any silencer.

• This is an attachment for filtering exhaust of stationary engines/gensets.

• It comprises a cylindrical housing in which exhaust gas is allowed to expand and strike over fins embedded on internal surface of cylinder and perforated tubular fins. This results in dissociation of CO and CO2 into carbon particulates, which can be removed periodically through opening provided for this purpose.

• The carbon can be used as raw material for making boot polish and similar applications.

• The exhaust gas coming out has very reduced pollutants, quite low temperature and results in very low noise (BIT Mesra Test report)

Video

Innovator : Mr. Virendra Kumar Sinha, East Champaran, BiharScout : Md. Azhar Hussain Ansari (Scouted in 2005-6)

PAS

Leadership is to nurture Designs that can self correct themselves:

autopoesis designs

Electric shock proof converter

InnovatorInnovator :: Mr. Kshetrimayum Nicholson Singh, ManipurKshetrimayum Nicholson Singh, Manipur

ScoutScout : : NIF NE, Assam (NIF NE, Assam (4th July,20064th July,2006)

• Usually people especially kids are electrocuted when they touch electric boards. Kids used to insert their finger inside the socket/plug point, which results accidents many times.

• This device coverts all electrical lines to shock free power lines.

• The device can be installed just after the energy meter

• When there is a contact of human being at the output stage even with the live wire, due to the relays and circuitry, electricity circuit becomes open through the relay.

• Innovator has developed one unit 5 years ago which he is using in his workshop since then

• Product is ready to launch in the market

• Price: Rs. 5000-10,000 (depending upon number of connections in the house)

Video2Test report

•The smell from septic tank attracts mosquitoes•Once the mosquitoes get trapped they can not escape•The transparent plastic tubes act as a solar furnace

and kills the mosquitoes•Useful for hospitals, gardens, schools, hotels, etc.•The innovator developed it 15 years ago•The first machine was sold in Dec 2006, which is still functional.•The innovator has sold over 500 units till date (12.7.10)•Expected life: 5-6 years •Price: Rs. 1500/-•Weight: 1.25 kg•The innovator can deliver 5000 units per month•The innovator is planning to launch household version shortly, which

will not use biogas as attractant, rather milk (processed in certain way.. under research) would be used.

Eco-friendly mosquito destroyer

Video

Innovator : Mr. Mathews K Mathew, Kannur, Kerala Scout : Direct entry….5th comp (2005-06)

Feedback Bench-marking Prior art search

Milking machine

Innovator: Shri Mr. Raghava Gowda, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka

• Conventionally, milking is done manually which is tedious job Conventionally, milking is done manually which is tedious job if one has number of cows. The completely automatic if one has number of cows. The completely automatic machines are available in market but they are too costly.machines are available in market but they are too costly.

• This is a manually operated semi automatic machine for This is a manually operated semi automatic machine for milking cowsmilking cows

• It can milk cows using a set of reciprocating vacuum pump It can milk cows using a set of reciprocating vacuum pump and suction assembly unit and suction assembly unit

• The suction assembly has two sub-assemblies with a set of The suction assembly has two sub-assemblies with a set of nipples and stainless steel plate on one side and transparent nipples and stainless steel plate on one side and transparent conduit pipes and a regulator valve on the other. conduit pipes and a regulator valve on the other.

• The hand lever attached to the pumping unit is cranked till a The hand lever attached to the pumping unit is cranked till a vacuum of 15 inches is created. This is attached to the udders vacuum of 15 inches is created. This is attached to the udders and the milk gets deposited in the receiving canister via the and the milk gets deposited in the receiving canister via the transparent conduit pipes. When air bubbles flow along with transparent conduit pipes. When air bubbles flow along with the milk, the operation is stopped and on gently pressing the the milk, the operation is stopped and on gently pressing the top of the teats, the teats get released. top of the teats, the teats get released.

• It milks 1.5 litre to 2 litres per minute. For milking a cow it It milks 1.5 litre to 2 litres per minute. For milking a cow it takes about 3-5 minutes (5-15 lit).takes about 3-5 minutes (5-15 lit).

Video Bench-marking

Herbal dye

1

Innovator : Mr. C V Raju, Andhra Pradesh

Etikay ProductsA feast to the eyes – are stunningly colourful wood lacquerware from Padmavathi Associates of Etikoppaka, a small village near Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. To keep alive a traditional craft and sustain scores of craftsperosns and their families involved in the making of these beautiful novelties, toys and utilities. Etikay products are simply a class apart from other similiar wood crafts.

• This is an environment friendly cheaper solution for water

lifting (having low initial cost and negligible operating cost). An

alternative solution for water lifting by electric power operated

pump/pumps guzzling fossil fuels or in absence of both pumps

operated manually with low discharge.

• The supporting structure/tower of windmill has been developed

using low cost, readily available material in the region (eg.

bamboo, eucalyptus, etc depending upon regional availability).

This structure houses a horizontal shaft made of mild steel (or

cast iron) with four blades placed at the centre. The blades of

turbine are made of mild steel sheet. The rotary motion of the

shaft over which blades are mounted, (resulting due to wind

power) is transferred to reciprocating movement of pump-lever

using cam and lever mechanism.

AssamLow cost windmill Md. Mehtar (32) and Mushtaq Hussain

Video

Innovation

InvestmentEnterprise

GOLDEN TRIANGLE for rewarding CREATIVITY

Leadership is to take note of ex ante and ex poste transaction costs and deal with them upfront,

If not these are transferred to the weaker partner

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1993) is a developmental voluntary

organization, set up to strengthen the Honey Bee Network of grassroots innovators engaged in conserving biodiversity and

developing sustainable solutions to local problems.

http://www.sristi.org Note on SRISTI

biodiversity

Modern R and D

Give me a place to stand, I will move the word

Shodh yatra every summer, every winter

Food for body, soul and the eyes

Satvik Traditional Food Festival, iim campus

Kitchen King- automatic food making machine Master

Abhishek Bhagat, class tenth, Bhagalpur, Bihar

Automatic Food Making Machine

Master Abhisek Bhagat, class tenth, Bhagalpur, Bihar

• One needs to switch it on, select the item to be prepared from menu in digital display, after selecting the items, there would be display of numbering of boxes along with information about raw material. Once the raw materials are fed in the respective boxes (in suggested quantity), user needs to insert unique electronic recipe card.

• There are different cards for different items.• The machine reads the programmed card and

accordingly signals different boxes at preset timings to release ingredients according to recipe card in given sequence.

Bixa orellana

Natural dye obtained from seeds and used for flavouring puddings and sweets (Arku Valley)

Jampras: arku valley ( community Knowledge)

7G biscuits

Nutraceutical properties: • Rich in calcium, iron,

phosphorus• Rich in protein• Rich in Omega 3 fattyacids • Rich in vitamins and minerals • Rich in dietary fibre • Repair the body tissues. • Energy booster• Improve General health and

metabolic functions. • Antioxidant• Rich in bioactive compounds

We are suffering form nutritional crisis due to deficient soils

• There's great variation from nutrient to nutrient in the various tests showing how depleted the soil/plants is/are, and here's one of the most extreme examples (Source: Japan standardized Ingredients List):

Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner, stated, "You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral

deficiency

• As an example, magnesium is the activator for over 300 enzymes. Also it is integral in the production of ATP, the energy compound of the body. Magnesium is seriously deficient in the average diet, yet mainstream medicine gives little attention to the body’s critical need for it.

• Similarly, zinc is a component of all cells. It is a cofactor in nearly 70 different enzymes, and provides significant benefits for the immune system, growth and development of muscular and skeletal structures, and tissue repair. Today’s foods contain too little for our needs, especially those of children.

• Amounts of Vitamin C in 100 g of Spinach1950 = 150 mg1963 = 100 mg1982 = 063 mg1994 = 013 mg

• That's a circa 90% reduction and this is not the rule, but an exception. Still, nobody seems to disagree that there is a severe soil depletion going on, and that this affects the nutrient levels in both livestock animals and humans. Nutrient comparisons have also been made between traditional, 'non-Western' diets and current, Western diets -

• Another example that has been referred to a lot (possibly/maybe because it's a bit more extreme/scary than the average?), is a comparison between the nutrient changes in potatoes over the last 50 years:

Using potatoes as an example, in a study to find out what nutrients the potato has lost over the last 50 years. This is what was concluded:• 100% of Vitamin A • 57% of Vitamin C and Iron• 28% of Calcium• 50% of Riboflavin• 18% of Thiamine

Out of all of the nutrients analysed only niacin levels actually did increase. The conclusion was very similar for 25 fruits and vegetables under the same test conditions. Broccoli had a huge reduction in which all nutrients had significantly declined, surprisingly including niacin.

Figures have been published in scientific journals in the UK including the British Food Journal. 

A professor at the center for Food Policy explained how our food has been so degraded that we would now have to eat 8 oranges to get the same amount of Vitamin A from an orange which our grandparents would have eaten many years ago.

• Out of all of the nutrients analysed only niacin levels actually did increase. The conclusion was very similar for 25 fruits and vegetables under the same test conditions. Broccoli had a huge reduction in which all nutrients had significantly declined, surprisingly including niacin.

Figures have been published in scientific journals in the UK including the British Food Journal. 

A professor at the center for Food Policy explained how our food has been so degraded that we would now have to eat 8 oranges to get the same amount of Vitamin A from an orange which our grandparents would have eaten many years ago.

• Food and beverages industry has to educate people about it, invest in research and join hands for overall holistic vision.

Business Development and

MVIF

( g2G)

National Innovation Foundation

www.nifindia.org/bd

g2G

grassroots to global

Global GIAN – Building Global Value

Chain for augmentation of Green

Grassroots Innovations

Sales made

1. Coconut tree climber- USA (Florida, Massachussets, California, Hawaii etc.) Australia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Mexico, West Indies

2. Pomegranate deseeder-Turkey, USA

3. Garlic peeling machine-Pakistan

4. Arecanut husker- Singapore

5. Milking machine-Phillipines, Uganda, Ethiopia

6. Resin grading machine-Peru

7. Cassava peeling machine-kenya

8. Herbal growth promoters-Ghana

Product enquiries:

Sl no. Innovation/product Countires

1 Coconut/palm tree climbing device USA, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Australia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Iran, West Indies

2 Entech oil expeller USA, United Kingdom, Australia, Phillipines, Canada, Kenya, Colombia, S. Africa, Switzerland, Poland, Indonesia, Belgium

3 Garlic peeling machine Slovenia, USA, Turkey, Peru, Singapore, Iran , Venezuela, Pakistan

4 Pomegranate deseeding machine USA, Australia, Turkey, Venezuela, Hongkong, Israel, Netherlands, Thailand, UAE, Iran, United Kingdom

5 Cassava peeling machine Congo, USA, Benin, Nigeria, Kenya, UAE, Uganda

6 Aaruni tilting cart Uganda

7 Coconut defibring machine China

8 Coconut dehusker Mexico, New Zealand, USA, Philippines, Bangladesh

9 Lemon cutting machine S. Africa

10 Milking machine Bangladesh, Uganda, Ecuador

11 Palm leaf mat weaving machine Fiji

12 Rain Gun (Chandraprabha) Sudan

13 Tea making machine Bangladesh,

14 Tile making machine Bangladesh, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Zambia

15 Trench digging machine Pakistan

16 Zero head water turbine Egypt

17 Arecanut dehusking machine Chile

• How do we share the benefits?

How to reward: Portfolio of Incentives for farmers’

innovations

material-individual

Ipr or non ipr based awards

Awards

R and d grants

Endowments

non-material-individual

Recognition

Honour

Memorial

material-collective

Trust funds

Venture and incubation

funds

Collective awards

Supp for Institution building

endowments

non-material-collective

Policy changes

Pedagogic changes

Forms of incentivesMaterial non material

Target

Of individual

Incentives

collective

What are stairs used for: climbing up?

Please think for a moment deeply

What are stairs used for: climbing around, into each other’s heart: horizontal bonding between formal and informal sector, science and spaces

How did it happen:

The journey…..

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