Green Credit Programme introduced by Government of India

 The Central Government has now proposed a notification for ‘draft Green Credit Programme Implementation Rules 2023’ for the information of the public .

‘Green Credit’ means a singular unit of an incentive provided for a specified activity, delivering a positive impact on the environment;

Sectors identified for the Programme with respective objectives are as follows:

i. Tree Plantation-based Green Credit: To promote activities for increasing the green cover across the country through tree plantation and related activities. 

ii. Water-based Green Credit: To promote water conservation, water harvesting and water use efficiency/savings, including treatment and reuse of wastewater. 

iii. Sustainable Agriculture based Green Credit: To promote natural and regenerative agricultural practices and land restoration to improve productivity, soil health and nutritional value of food produced. 

iv. Waste Management based Green Credit: To promote sustainable and improved practices for waste management, including collection, segregation and treatment.

 v. Air Pollution Reduction based Green Credit: To promote measures for reducing air pollution and other pollution abatement activities. 

vi. Mangrove Conservation and Restoration based Green Credit: To promote measures for conservation and restoration of mangroves. 

vii. Ecomark based Green Credit: To encourage manufacturers to obtain Ecomark label for their goods and services. 

viii. Sustainable building and infrastructure based Green Credit: To encourage the construction of buildings and other infrastructure using sustainable technologies and materials.

Download:  https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/2023/246825.pdf

Can India come with scaled AI Generative Startup

The debate started with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman statement in a Q&A that India's AI Startup Potential "Totally Hopeless'. NASSCOM has come with this report to give current status on India startups in this space. 

Indian generative AI startup ecosystem has expanded rapidly since 2021, more than doubling in count, with over $475 Mn funding in the last 2 years. Majority of these Indian startups offer generative AI-native solutions, built in-house. However, a majority of them lack adequate funding. Unlocking the full potential of generative AI for India, and from India for the world, will not only require rigorous assessment of sustainable whitespace opportunities in various sectors, but will also require innovative thinking towardsinviting patient capital and facilitating compute capabilities at scale.

Indo-U.S. Global Challenge Institutes

 Earlier this year, AAU formed the Task Force on Expanding United States-India University Partnerships. The objective of the Task Force has been to specifically explore how the United States can work with institutions and institutional leaders in India to expand bilateral research and higher education partnerships as part of a pathway toward a strategic strengthening of the U.S.-India relationship.

Preliminary Recommendations

RECOMMENDATION #1: Establish New Joint U.S.-India Institutes to Address Societal and Scientific Grand Challenges.

RECOMMENDATION #2: Scale Up Student-Based Research Collaboration and Exchanges to Address Societal Challenges.

RECOMMENDATION #3: Expand Opportunities for Internships and Apprenticeships

RECOMMENDATION #4: Catalyze Collaborative Research with Targeted Faculty Support

 RECOMMENDATION #5: Broaden Participation in GIAN, VAJRA, and Other Existing Programs.

RECOMMENDATION #6: Host Indian Researchers at Core Facilities.

RECOMMENDATION #7: Accelerate Knowledge Transfer from Lab to Marketplace

RECOMMENDATION #8: Build the “Front Doors” with Coordinated Nationwide International Education Strategies in Both Countries

RECOMMENDATION #9: Surge Staffing Resources to Rapidly Process Visas Applications

Download- https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU-Files/Education-Community-Impact/International-Partnerships/India%20Task%20Force%20Preliminary%20Report.pdf

Nominations invited for Innovation Yearbook 2023

 

Identifying 4IR technologies using patent data

 The 4IR and the transformations it entails, mainly in the industrial manufacturing sector, were put into vogue since the presentation of the German industrial strategy plan entitled “Industrie 4.0” at the Hanover Fair in 2011 by a group of researchers from the Research Union EconomyScience of the German Ministry of Education and Research. Essentially, the “Industrie 4.0” plan proposes a way of industrialization based on the introduction of the CPS into manufacturing production and hence, establishing a watershed with previous technological revolutions empowered by mechanization, electricity and ICT with the main aim to improve German domestic and global manufacturing competitiveness through “smart factory”. CPS are formally defined as “transformative technologies for managing interconnected systems between its physical assets and the computational capabilities”.

This document provides a methodological procedure to identify the Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies using patent data. Attempts to distinguish these technologies  have frequently relied on the European Patent Office (2017, 2020a) methods or have mainly leaned on technical codes and keyword classifications.

Download report: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2023/wp2023-023.pdf