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promoting grass root innovations. Deepal Sooriyaarachchi Chairman- Sri Lanka Inventors Commission. Agenda. Introduction to SLIC What Inventors do How can business benefit from them How can you promote grass root innovations. Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC).
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promoting grass root innovations Deepal Sooriyaarachchi Chairman- Sri Lanka Inventors Commission
Agenda • Introduction to SLIC • What Inventors do • How can business benefit from them • How can you promote grass root innovations
Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC) • Sri Lanka Inventors Incentive Act No 53 of 1979. • To encourage making or creations of inventions by Sri Lankans and provide them with Technical, Financial and Legal Support. • JIII- established in 1904 patron Emperor • Honeybee network in India collects and promotes grass root innovations
Problem- Solution Access to water Community Tap
Solution Problem- Carrying Q Drum
The Key Three Steps Core competency of inventors
How can you benefit • Creative Solutions to your problems- ( web space) • New business opportunities
How can you support • Nurture one or two inventions a year as incubator projects and make them commercial • Ask your HR persons to recognize inventors when recruiting • Sponsor some of our initiatives to pick talent, enhance brand image • Offer challenges to them to solve • Bring them in to your laborataries