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Grass Root To Globalization

The document summarizes Professor Anil Gupta's work establishing networks and organizations to recognize and support grassroots innovators in India, including the Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, National Innovation Foundation, and GIAN initiatives. It describes how these organizations work to identify innovations, protect intellectual property rights, facilitate technology transfer, and provide rewards and recognition to grassroots innovators. The modified hand pump case study illustrates how one innovation was disseminated with the help of these organizations.

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Grass Root To Globalization

The document summarizes Professor Anil Gupta's work establishing networks and organizations to recognize and support grassroots innovators in India, including the Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, National Innovation Foundation, and GIAN initiatives. It describes how these organizations work to identify innovations, protect intellectual property rights, facilitate technology transfer, and provide rewards and recognition to grassroots innovators. The modified hand pump case study illustrates how one innovation was disseminated with the help of these organizations.

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Grass Root

to
Globalization
Submitted By
Rishika Mittal
09020242030
MBA-AB
Prof. Anil K. Gupta
 Professor Anil Kumar Gupta, is a senior faculty at the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahemdabad

Research interests include expansion of global as well as


local space for grassroots innovators to ensure recognition, respect,
and reward for them; blending excellence in formal and informal science;
protection of intellectual property rights; ethical issues in conservation
and prospecting of biodiversity; research management linking innovations
investments and enterprise
Small is
beautiful!!!
The Belief

Minds on the margin are


“

not marginal minds”


How did it happen:
The journey…
HONEY BEE NETWORK , INFORMAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT,

SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH AND INITIATIVES FOR


SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND INSTITUTIONS (SRISTI)

GRASSROOTS INNOVATION AUGMENTATION NETWORK ( GIAN)

NATIONAL INNOVATION FOUNDATION (NIF)


Honey Bee
Network
Honey Bee Network
 Honey Bee Network is a crucible of like-minded individuals, innovators,
farmers, scholars, academicians, policy makers, entrepreneurs and non-
governmental organizations (NGOs).

The Network has been woven around three basic ideals :

 A knowledge system in order to become sustainable has to be both just and


fair.

 The traditional knowledge holders and grassroots innovators must be


acknowledged, if otherwise desired so by the knowledge holders
themselves.

 Any proceed that accrues from the value addition of local traditional
knowledge and innovation; a fair and reasonable share must go back to the
knowledge holders.
GOLDEN TRIANGLE OF CREATIVITY

Innovation

Enterprise Investment
ABC to DEF
(The approach)

 A: access ( of grassroots innovators)

 B: bridge formal and informal science

 C:
creativity, collaboration and
compassion
DEF

 D: design

 E: energy, efficiency and effectiveness through


empathy

 F: fabrication, fostering partnerships between


innovation, investment and enterprise
Shodh
Yatra
"The next century will belong to India, which
will become a unique intellectual and
economic power to reckon with, recapturing
all its glory, which it had in the millennia
gone by."
- Dr. R. A. Mashelkar
Shodh Yatra
 A journey for the search of knowledge, creativity
and innovations at grassroots.

 It is an attempt on the part of SRISTI to reach


out to the remotest part of the country.

 Aims at unearthing traditional knowledge and


grassroots innovations that have simplified the
lives of men, women and farm labourers.
Objectives
 To learn about the experiences of the farmers
engaged in organic farming.

 To encourage the curiosity of the children


about variety in organic farming.

 To meet the people who solve their problems


through their presence of mind and inborn
ability.

 To compile and disseminate the knowledge


and establish a dialogue between the old and
future generations.
Shodh
Yatras

Bio-
Felicitation
Night Diversity Recipe
of
Meets Competition Competition
creativity
SRISTI
SRISTI
 SRISTI is a non-governmental organisation setup
 To strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors,
innovators and ecopreneurs
 Engaged in conserving biodiversity and developing eco-
friendly solutions to local problems.
The goals

 To protect the intellectual property rights of grassroots


innovators

 To build bridges between formal and informal science, and

 To conserve natural resources particularly biodiversity


and the associated people’s knowledge are visually
presented by the illustration.
National Innovation Foundation
 Prof Gupta worked hard to create recognition and
awareness around the importance of grass root innovators
in the formal system. 

 This vision developed into the National Innovation


Foundation.
 Established under the Department of Science and
technology, Government of India on 28th February, 2000,
the main aim being to scout, document and
scale sustainable innovations. 
AIM

 NIF helps in protecting Intellectual Property


rights of grass-root innovators and documents
their various innovations and traditional
practices. 

 It also helps in the technology transfer of suitable


technologies.  57 technologies have been already
licensed. 
GIAN

GIAN

GIAN Northern
GIAN Western
Region (Punjab,
Region (Goa,
Haryana, Rajasthan,
Maharashtra, Gujarat)
Uttaranchal..)
GIAN
 Incubates high potential grassroots
innovations into market ready products.

 Since its inception, has been actively


involved in helping innovators .

 Assistsinnovators to take their innovations


to the market
Case study on social diffusion Modified
hand pump GIAN (n) Jaipur, Honey Bee
Network
Origin

 The improved hand pump is a combination


of two innovations and ideas recognized
by NIF during its second and third National
competition on grassroots innovations
( SwyambhuSharma and
ChandanAgarwal)
Problems with the usual product

Over drawing of water other than actual


requirement–diameter of conventional
pump outlet is usually 2”which leads to
high discharge volume and therefore
wastage of water also

Water not available for animals-Although


there is a lot of runoff, water is not retained
over ground thus making it unavailable for
wild and farm animals

Uncomfortable position for drawing water


and drinking at the same time, with a lot of
water wastage
The Innovation
New hand pump has a provision
of 25% water donation for the
animal trough, which is collected
from the runoff
A provision of about 1 liter water
storage inside the head of the
pump which can be utilized
through a tap for use as a drinking
source just by pumping once
Dissemination
 First installation was facilitated through gram
panchayatof Danta division
 Users’ feedback was encouraging therefore
GIAN-North further facilitated the
implementation in selected villages of Sikar
District
 A total of 120 hand pumps were modified and
provided to PHED for getting installed at
selected sites
 6 pumps were recently handed over to an
NGO “Lupin” for dissemination purpose
Recognition & Reward:

 1st Award by National Innovation


Foundation Award in the year Feb 2002
 Best Technology Award for the year 2003
by National Research Development
Corporation, Govt. of India in the year
June 2004.
 Honored by SRISTI by including him in the
Governing body
Continuous efforts have led
to…
Present Scenario
 120,000 innovations, ideas and traditional
knowledge practices in all 545 districts of
India
 The innovations have been in all areas –
energy, transport, agriculture, food
processing, herbal drugs, veterinary drugs,
human drugs, agricultural inputs,
horticulture, utilities...
Present Scenario

 Filed 220 patents in India

 35 patents granted in India

 5 patents granted in the US


Reach till now
Sr.No Products Enquiries Countries Comments

1 Sanitary Napkin 8 Bangladesh (4), 2 orders


making Machine USA, South received, (MIT)
Africa, Kenya to be sent
2 Areca Nut 1 Indonesia Replied
Machine

3 Pomegranate 3 Germany, Iran, Replied


Peeling Machine Kuwait

4 Coconut tree 8 USA(4), Costing is high,


climber Singapore, Singapore order
Australia, Dubai in process
5 Raisin Grading 2 USA, Mexico Replied
Machine

6 White Flowered 1 Sri Lanka Replied


Cardamom
Sales Made
 Coconut tree climber-USA (Florida, Massachussets, Hawaii
etc.) Australia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Indies
 Pomegranate deseeder-Turkey, USA
 Garlic peeling machine-Pakistan
 Arecanuthusker-Singapore
 Milking machine-Phillipines, Uganda, Ethiopia
 Resin grading machine-Peru
 Cassava peeling machine-kenya
 Herbal growth promoters-Ghana
Benefit Sharing Formula
S. No. Index %

1 Innovator 30
(Traditionalknowledgeholder)

2 Nature 5

3 Community 5

4 Innovation Fund 20

5 Research and Development 15

6 Over head 15

7 Contigency 5

8 Women fund 5
But…
Problems

 Attitude of the Industry


 Attitude of the government
 Apprehension of the people

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