Introducing the Concept of Grassroot Innovations in Tunesia

1. Institute for Technology and Innovation Management Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Introducing the Concept of GrassrootInnovations in Tunesia TIM Team / TUHH 16.04.2013

2. Agenda • TIM at TUHH • The ConceptofGrassrootInnovations • Underlying Idea • Examples • InstitutionsbehindtheConcept • 5 Key ActivitiesforImplementation • Selected Performance IndicatorsoftheConcept

3. Who weare: see www.tuhh.de/tim

4. Our Academic Research Staff A 20-members strong team led by Prof. Cornelius Herstatt, and comprising mainly of researchers with (business) engineering & management background

5. Our Academic Research Areas Open Source Innovation • User Innovation, Lead Users and Open Collaborative Innovation • Value Creation and Value Capture by Users and Manufacturers • Openness in Innovation Creation and Governance • Free Revealing in the World of Digital and Physical Goods Silver Market Innovation Green Innovation User Innovation • Silver Market Phenomenon • (Re-)design of Silver Products & Silver Service Models • Technology Acceptance • Elderly Lead Users • Product Service Systems • Firm Transitions • Capabilities and Innovation Networks • Combination of Economic and Environmental Aspects (Cradle to Cradle) Global Innovation • Lead Markets • Internationalization of R&D • Off-shoring and Outsourcing of Innovation (e.g. India) • Frugal Innovation • Grassroot Innovation • Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP)

6. www.global-innovation.net

7. Agenda • TIM at TUHH • The ConceptofGrassrootInnovations • Underlying Idea • Examples • InstitutionsbehindtheConcept • 5 Key ActivitiesforImplementation • Selected Performance IndicatorsoftheConcept

8. Concept of Grassroot Innovations Prof. Anil Gupta Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad Grassroot Innovationsare need-based, simple, cost-effective and sustainable product solutions sometimes based on traditional knowledge.

9. Underlying Idea of Grassroot Innovations • Robust, affordable and environmentally sustainable products • In sync with the local conditions • Able to cope with the given infrastructural deficits • Make use of the vast creativity potential at “grassroots”, often in rural surroundings

10. Examples of Grassroot Innovations

11. InstitutionsbehindtheConceptofGrassrootInnovations Honey bee network, informal global social movement, started in 1987, www.sristi.org/hbnew Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, www.SRISTI.org Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network, www.GIAN.org National Innovation Foundation, www.NIFindia.org

12. The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) • Established in Feb 2000 by The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India • Making India an innovative and creative society by providing institutional support to grassroots innovations and helping their transition to self supporting activities • Governing CouncilNIF Chairman: Dr. R. A. Mashelkar Former Director General CSIR. and President Global Research Alliance Executive Vice Chairperson: Professor Anil K. Gupta President SRISTI, Professor Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

13. 5 Key ActivitiesforImplementingGrassrootInnovations NIF & Partners Value Addition & Product Development IPRs Management Dissemination & Information Technology Scouting and Documentation Enterprise & Business Development

14. Scouting and Documentation … to discover and recognize Grassroot Innovations and triditional knowledge practices among various rural or urban communities. Shodhyatra: every summer, every winter

15. Value Addition and Research & Development Optimization in design process or product formulation by merging with modern science and technology inputs. Before After Non Stick Clay Cooking Pan Non Stick Clay Cooking Pan

16. OtherExamples of Value Addition Before After Coconut Dehusker Coconut Dehusker

17. Product Re-Design Original design Clay Chiller

18. OtherExamples of Value Addition Before After Clay Chiller Clay Chiller

19. Potential cooperative Forms of Value Addition

20. Business Development andMicroVenture Funding. The basic goal is to build a value chain around Grassroot Innovations to facilitate their transition into self-supporting sustainable enterprises and therefore make these innovative products available to the masses. • Market research • Test marketing • Pilot scale production & marketing • Mentoring innovators • Prepare business plans • Mobilize funding

21. IntellectualProperty Management (IPM) NIF has set up an IP management division for empowering the knowledge rich, economically poor grassroots innovators and traditional knowledge holders. • Helping the innovators in prior art searches. • Drafting and filing of patent applications. • Coordination with intellectual property institutions. • Providing legal assistance.

22. Dissemination and IT Management Development of an online database of innovations and traditional knowledge. www.nif.org.in

23. Agenda • TIM at TUHH • The ConceptofGrassrootInnovations • Underlying Idea • Examples • InstitutionsbehindtheConcept • 5 Key ActivitiesforImplementation • Selected Performance IndicatorsoftheConcept

24. Selected Performance Indicators of the GI Concept • Scouted more than 150,000, ideas, innovations, traditional knowledge practices (not all unique) • 469 patents filed on behalf of innovators • 500 projects supported for value addition • 174 projects under Micro venture innovation fund • Transferred 64 technologies to 78 licensees (Status November 2011)

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