Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) today announced a
partnership to jointly promote Cluster Innovation Centres as part of
NInC's Industry and University Innovation Clusters initiative by
joining forces with the CSIR-800 initiative of CSIR and Technopreneur
Promotion Program (TePP) of DSIR.
The partnership has been jointly signed by the NInC Chairman and
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and
Innovations, Sam Pitroda and Prof. Samir Brahmachari, Chairman CSIR,
who is also the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of
Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and
Technology.
Realizing that innovation is the engine for the growth and prosperity
in the 21st century, the President of India has declared 2010 as the
'Decade of Innovation'. To take this agenda forward, NInC has been set
up to prepare a Roadmap for Innovations 2010-2020 with a focus on
inclusive growth.
Such a roadmap would outline interventions, policies, recommendations
and methodologies to implement and foster innovation in the country
especially in the 26 million MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises). CSIR, as a member of NInC, is a valuable partner in
realizing this innovation agenda.
The NInC strategy focuses on five key parameters - Platform;
Inclusion; Eco-system; Drivers and Discourse. The aim is to re-define
innovations and to offer novel solutions that lead to inclusive growth
and create innovation eco-systems connecting industry, universities,
research institutes, professional associations, financial institutions
and Government.
One of the key initiatives of NInC is to facilitate, promote,
stimulate and strengthen innovation eco-systems across the country by
creation of local Industry and University Innovation Clusters.
A cluster is a geographic grouping of institutions/firms in one
industry which galvanizes and strengthens the competitive advantage of
that industry. The innovation activities in the clusters identified by
NInC would be galvanized around Cluster Innovation Centres (CICs).
CSIR with its 37 laboratories, 3 units, 39 extension centres and its
over 4500 scientists will provide human capital and know-how input to
CICs.
CSIR's involvement will also involve sharing their knowledge base and
programs to boost the CICs, while CSIR will get new opportunities for
enhanced MSME interaction to develop new research and innovations and
fulfil the CSIR-800 mission.
The CICs would be based on a public private partnership (PPP) model
and would act as hubs for connecting various local and national
stakeholders.
These CICs would then facilitate and drive innovation by connecting
cluster needs to ideas, knowledge, technologies, labs and people. Some
of the CICs may be located in the CSIR-innovation complexes.
The eventual aim of the NInC and CSIR partnership would be to identify
local clusters across industries to drive innovation through the CIC
model.
However, in the first phase, pilot clusters would be identified to
create model CICs and to refine how specific interventions stimulate
innovation for enhancing growth and competitiveness. This would
provide a blueprint to be replicated across Industry and Universities.
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