ANIS2013_Social Innovation Led by Technology_Vipin kumar

National Innovation Foundation - India

Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable
Development- Honey Bee experience

Dr. Vipin Kumar
National Innovation Foundation-India


Why have the basic needs of the majority of people remained unmet:
Is it because people lack imagination, ideas, innovations or is it because the
institutions which can convert their ideas into enterprises – social or economic,
individual or collective or missing?

Economically poor people are potentially rich
in Knowledge, creativity and innovation for
survival, Ethics and values, Institutions
(common property institutions, other social
arrangements for using natural or other
resources), Kinship networks and cultural
communication channels


What are the resources in which economically poor people are
potentially rich:
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Knowledge, creativity and innovation for survival

•

Ethics and values

•

Institutions (common property institutions, other social
arrangements for using natural or other resources)

•

Kinship networks

•

Cultural communication channels


What are the resources they lack:

1. Institutions (like gian.org, nifindia.org) providing
handholding support at their doorstep
2. Access to local or nearby labs and workshops to add
value to their knowledge or fabricate tools for meeting
their need
3. Access to local language multimedia tools / databases
of traditional knowledge or grassroots innovations by
other communities in the region or around the world
(such as Honey Bee database, sristi.org)


4. Flexible access to natural resources governed by state
or large private owners
5. Access to micro venture capital and support for new
product development
6. Linkage with formal sector scientific labs for validating
and valorising their knowledge of herbal healing and
other technological claims
7. Lack of low transaction costs system of IP protection
without preventing people to people learning but
ensuring benefit sharing with corporations


From sink to source:
– Are poor only the consumer or can they also be the
provider of idea, innovations and institutional values
– Are common people at the Bottom of all kinds of
Pyramids?
– Can we not say that many poor people are actually
at the Top of The Innovation, value and ethical
pyramids,

Ways of knowing, feeling and
doing: Tip of the Iceberg

Honey Bee Network (HBN) : an odd ball network


A nameless, faceless innovator or traditional
knowledge holder comes in contact with the
Network and gets the identity

Mining the Minds of Masses

Values and basic principles of HBN


Knowledge Sharing in local
language
Recognition, Respect &
Reward
Benefit Sharing


Developed seven paddy varieties – HMT, DRK, Vijay Anand, Nanded Chinur, Nanded 92,
Deepak Ratna and Nanded Hira
Dadaji Khobragade, Maharashtra
HMT variety included as a standard reference for thinness by PPVFRA, diffused over 1 lac
acres across Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Karnataka
Supported under MVIF for packaging and marketing of HMT variety
NIF filed application under the PPVFR Act 2001 (REG/2008/138)


Improved varieties of Paddy, wheat,
mustard and pigeon pea

Prakash Singh Raghuvanshi, Uttar Pradesh
The varieties are resistant to major pests
and diseases and have seeds with good
flavour and taste; distributes seeds free of
cost to farmers
National Award in NIF’s 5th National
Award Function; Supported under MVIF for
marketing of varieties; NIF facilitated trials
and application under the PPVFR Act 2001
(REG/2009/220, REG/2009/219,
REG/2009/322, REG/2009/323)
NIF facilitated trials of different varieties at
NRCRM-Bharatpur, IIPR-Kanpur and CSUATKanpur


Richa 2000- perennial pigeon pea variety
Raj Kumar Rathore, Madhya Pradesh
Seeds sold to famers across the country
Award in 5th National Award Function
NIF filed application under the PPVFR Act 2001
(REG/2009/326)
Supported under MVIF for marketing of variety


Reaper windrower - reducing manpower requirement and drudgery involved
in harvesting
Bhagwan Singh Dangi, Madhya Pradesh
Award in NIF’s National Award Function, patent (677/MUM/2011) filed in
the name of innovator


Cotton stripper machine – reducing drudgery and increasing profit
Mankushbhai Patel, Gujarat
Removes cotton from shell efficiently from indigenous varieties
Patents granted (India: 198755, USA: 6543091), Supported for
value addition, Award in NIF’s National Award Function

Biomass Gasification System
Innovator

:

Shri Rai Singh Dahiya, Jaipur, Rajasthan

• Unique gasification unit and
filtering mechanism. (Feedback of
scientists from TERI)

• Gasification Efficiency 60 70 % (indicative), Thermal efficiency:
25% (tested by MNIT, Jaipur)
• Available in capacity 5 -100
kVA, single and three phase –
(with or without canopy).
• Over 150 units have been sold
in different parts of country
including Eight units exported
to South Africa, Kenya,
Germany, Italy and Singapore.
• Price : INR 500,000 and
625,000 (5 kVA) with and
without canopy, respectively.


Multipurpose Processing Machine
Innovator


Shri Dharamveer, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana

• Capable of processing various herbs like juice and gel of aloe vera, juice
of amla, jamun, mango, tomato, orange, etc. and extracting essence of
flowers and other herbs.
• Variants 50 and 150 lph capacity
• Price: Rs 70,000/- to 150,000/• Over 200 units sold in India and one unit exported to Kenya.

Rapid Compost Maker


Innovator: Shri Gurmel Singh Dhonsi, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan

• Tractor mounted machine which can aerate,
humidify and mix the bio wastes.
• Can process 400 ton biomass/h

Manual Milking Machine
Innovator

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: Shri Raghava Gowda, Dakshin Kanada, Karnataka

Time for milking cow: 3
to 4 min (15 lit); for
milking buffalo 6 to 8
min.
Price : Rs 15000/Has sold over 3500 units
in different parts of
country and abroad
including Sri Lanka, New
Zealand, Nepal and
Namibia.
Average 700 machines
being sold per month
presently
Has also developed
battery operated and
electricity operated
variants


Five key lessons from the NIF and Honey Bee Network

a) Building a regional, national, and international registry of innovations may
help in reducing transaction costs of the potential entrepreneurs,
investors, fellow learning communities and even traders;

Transaction costs


Searching information: biodiversity leads,
opportunities for investment, value addition
Ex -ante

finding suppliers
negotiation
Drawing up a contract

Monitoring and enforcing compliance

Ex -poste

Side payments

Conflict resolution
Redrawing the contract if nothing
else works


Prior Informed Consent and Benefit Sharing

b) Compliance with the Prior Informed Consent of the innovators to respect
their knowledge rights for eventual benefit sharing, keeping in mind the
share of not only individual knowledge holders, but also their
communities, nature conservation, and the ones who add value and
augment innovations/ Traditional knowledge etc., in a transparent
manner;


How to reward:
Portfolio of Incentives for grassroots innovations
Forms of incentives
Material

non material

material-individual

non-material-individual

Target
Of

individual

Incentives
collective

Ipr or non ipr based awards
Awards
R and d grants

Recognition
Honour
Memorial

Endowments

material-collective
Trust funds
Venture and incubation funds
Collective awards
Supp for Institution building

endowments

non-material-collective

Policy changes
Pedagogic changes

Biennial award functions

Hon’’ble President of India conferred the National level awards on innovators, traditional
knowledge holders, students and representatives of communities.

The innovation exhibitions were
organized in March 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013
at the Mughal Garden where grassroots
innovations were displayed for the public. The
events were inaugurated by Hon’ble President
herself and was visited by many dignitaries



IGNITE
The national competition of school students’ original
technological ideas and innovations


c) pooling the best traditional practices and grassroots innovations where
necessary to develop new natural products for diffusion through
commercial and non commercial channels. These could be through small
and medium scale enterprises, having benefit sharing contracts with small
or medium scale corporations; even large corporation, cooperatives and
other forms of economic initiatives

Innovations

Enterprise

Investment


d) development of lateral or horizontal markets instead of reliance only on
verticals; so that many of the self help micro finance groups move towards
micro-venture finance based entrepreneurial groups
e) Open source technology banks as well as IP protected knowledge base to
support livelihood options of disadvantaged communities

Traditional food festival



Shodh yatra : learning walk


Technology Acquisition Fund

•Compensating innovators by paying one-time license fee.
•Diffusion at low or no cost to as many small enterprises as possible and for larger
social good


Sale of grassroots technologies in six continents:
Grassroots to Global


Journey of augmenting grassroots innovations
continues ……..
THANKS
vipin@nifindia.org

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