NIF Governing Council Dr. R. A. Mashelkar Chairperson, NIF, President, Sh.A.K. Joti Chief Secretary Global Research Alliance,CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, Government of Gujarat, Former DG, CSIR, Govt. of India National Chemical Sachivalaya, Block no : 1, 3rd floor, Laboratory Dr. HomiBhabha Road, Pune - 411 008 020- Gandhinagar - 382 010. Phone:23220372, 2590 2605 / 2197, 020-2590 2607 (Fax)E- 23221105, 23250301 . Fax: (23243330, 23250305) mail:[email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Dr. S. Ayyappan Director General ICAR, Prof Anil K Gupta Executive Vice Chairperson, NIF Krishi Bhavan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, Indian Institute of Management New Delhi - 110 001. 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Chairperson, GIAN-North A-241, Shivanand IIT-Madras, Chennai- 600036 MargMalviya Nagar, Jaipur - 302 017, Rajasthan Phone :Ph: 044 22570120/ 22574408, 98400 16781 (M) 0141-2523340 Fax : 0141- Fax : 044 22570120 [email protected] [email protected] Ms Ranjana Kumar Plot No. 81, Whisper Prof Kuldeep Mathur Retired Professor Valley , Dargah/Jubillee Hills Down Road, B - 083, Belvedere Park, DLF City, Phase - III Hyderabad - 500 008, Andhra Pradesh, India Gurgaon - 122 002 Mr D Rajgopalan [email protected] Chief Secretary, Government of Gujarat, Sachivalaya Shri R Gopalakrishnan Executive Director , Block no : 1, 3rd floor, Gandhinagar - 382 010 Tata Sons, Bombay House, 24, Homi Mody Street, Fort, Mumbai 400 001 022-66657646 / 8282 Fax : 022-6665 8017 [email protected] Prof. Kuldeep Mathur Retired Professor Chief Innovation Officer B - 083, Belvedere Park, DLF City, Phase - III Gurgaon -National Innovation Foundation 122 002 0124 -406 9938/39, 98680 90038(M) Bungalow No 1, Satellite Complex [email protected], Premchandnagar Road, Satellite [email protected] Ahmedabad – 380 015 1 In support of Grassroots Innovations & Traditional Knowledge The Genesis Green Grassroots Innovators The National Innovation Foundation (NIF), supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, was set up in Honey Bee Network F e b r u a r y 2 0 0 0 u n d e r t h e chairpersonship of Dr R. A. Mashelkar, State / Regional Collaborators, Nodal Officers, Vo lunteers, R&D Institutions, NGOs, Students, Innovators Associations, GIANs President, Global Research Alliance and former Director General, CSIR to fulfill the long felt need for recognizing, respecting and rewarding innovations Dissemination & Incubation , Micro a n d o u t s t a n d i n g t r a d i t i o n a l Scouting & Information Value Addition & Venture & knowledge at the grassroots. The Documentation Technology Pro duct Business IPR Management Honey Bee Network, starting with a Applications Develo pment Development handful of volunteers twenty years ago, triggered a movement to scout, spawn and sustain unaided creative and innovative urges in unorganized sector of our society. NIF, while building upon the Honey Bee philosophy, has taken this initiative forward. Advisory Committee of Advisory Committee of expert grassroots innovators Nat ional Coordinators Science and Technology NIF provides an institutional platform for the knowledge-rich, economically from Informal Sector Experts poor people to learn from each other as well as formal scientific and other institutions. It is committed to making India innovative by documenting, adding value, protecting the intellectual property rights of the contemporary unaided grassroots technological innovators, as well as of Chief Innovation Officer outstanding traditional knowledge holders on a commercial as well as non- commercial basis. Objectives Executive Vice Chairperson · To help India become an innovative and creative society and a global leader in sustainable technologies by scouting, spawning and sustaining grassroots innovations. Chairperson · To ensure evolution and diffusion of green grassroots innovations in a time bound and a mission oriented manner so as to meet the socio- economic and environmental needs of our society. · To facilitate scaling up of grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge with or without value addition through commercial Governing Council and/or non-commercial channels. NIF Update 2009 2 3 In support of Grassroots Innovations & Traditional Knowledge · To influence public policy and conduct, co-ordinate as well as support Scouting & Documentation research, design and development efforts in the country on grassroots innovations so as to strengthen technological Scouting and Documentation of innovations is the first step towards the competitiveness of farmers, artisans, mechanics, etc., in the informal fulfillment of the mission of NIF. sector. , a r a h · To enable protection of intellectual property rights of the knowledge k a L holders wherever applicable and upholding their Prior Informed D i Consent (PIC) before licensing their technology to any third party or a h b taking it up for any other research or business development. p a t a · To build linkages between excellence in formal scientific systems and r P informal knowledge systems and to create a knowledge network to y b e link various stakeholders through applications of information g a l l technologies and also otherwise. i V a · To promote wider social awareness and applications of innovations y i t a and traditional knowledge and encourage their incorporation in p a J educational curriculum, developmental policies and programs. n i l l a W n O t r A Organizational Structure Scouting involves extensive fieldwork,travel in rural and urban areas, NIF is governed by a Governing Council consisting of several distinguished organizing Shodh Yatras in search of ‘odd balls’ – the experimenters – local members and is chaired by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, former Director General, community and knowledge experts in the society. The purpose is: CSIR. Prof. Anil K. Gupta, IIM, Ahmedabad is the Executive Vice Chairperson. · Scouting innovations and traditional knowledge practices with the help of grassroots level functionaries of education, agriculture, rural development, small scale industry, Panchayati Raj institutions, NGOs, Functional Areas: building the value chain around grassroots innovations students, innovators and other individual volunteers, etc. · Screening, documenting and verifying the claims about these innovations NIF mobilizes a large network of stakeholders to provide all necessary help to and traditional knowledge through various networks of scientific and innovators and traditional knowledge holders, right from adding value to other institutions as well as through the Honey Bee Network their innovations, filing patents on their behalf to the collaborators, study of existing databases, prior art, and field visits. possible business development or social diffusion. Details of five functions of · Experimenting with material and non-material incentive mechanisms for NIF are described here. Conceptually, every scholar or professional working encouraging innovators and traditional knowledge holders to produce, in NIF or its affiliated institutions is a multi-tasking person and role share and valorize their knowledge. distinctions are only meant for facilitating better coordination. · Obtaining Prior Informed Consent (PIC) of the providers of knowledge, innovations and practices. NIF Update 2009 4 5 In support of Grassroots Innovations & Traditional Knowledge · Disseminating details about the innovations that the knowledge providers agree · Mobilizing support for product development proposals through different to share by putting them in the public domain through Honey Bee Newsletter and programs / projects either at local or international level. other media in order to enrich the repertoire of the local communities and · Building up of product development teams on contractual basis to get the informal knowledge