WIPO Intellectual Propert Indicators 2024

 Resident Indian patent owners cross 50%.

Illustrated cases of Resident Indian patent owners:

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0DK5LWNST

(Source- WIPO)

TOP 100 INDIAN INNOVATIONS (2024)

 

This is the third publication of the Innovation Yearbook series. The first edition- Top 100 Indian Innovations (2022) provided 100 answers to the question- Is India innovative? And with the next 100 profiled in 2023, the Innovation Yearbook has been accepted as the most authentic reference volume on Indian Innovations. With the current volume, the count goes to 300 Indian innovations. In addition to serving as a refrence book, we hope the innovation yearbook series will be widely distributed in the libraries, to inform & excite the students. Each volume explains technology trends, patent status, innovation merits, and the personal background of each innovator. This type of comprehensive information is not available to seekers in any textbook or social media We received nearly 1000 nominations, directly or indirectly, and thank all innovators & stakeholders for helping us in this task. A hundred innovations are selected from out-of-the-sourced documents. For selection, equal weight is given to ‘innovator profile’ and ‘innovation merit’.

To supplement information received along with recommendations/ nominations, additional details are collected from publicly available documents on the net. Photos of inventors/ founders are taken from their LinkedIn profiles which are also cited in select cases. The photo on the cover page is provided by Zen Technologies.

Editors

• Aynampudi.Subbarao.
• KVSP Rao,
• Sachinn Aggarwal
• Raman Teja Venigalla

Links: 

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0DK5LWNST

https://notionpress.com/read/top-100-indian-innovations-2024?

https://www.flipkart.com/top-100-indian-innovations-2024/p/itm35c79de263d37?

Global Innovators of Indian Origin (2023)

 Global innovators of Indian origin

• 1.    Acoustography- Dr. Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, USA
• 2.    Bio surfactants-TeeGene Biotech. UK
• 3.    Coal Science- Dr. Hardarshan Singh Valia, USA
• 4.    Carrier Gas Extraction technology-Gradiant corporation, USA
• 5.    Computer Science- Raj Reddy, USA
• 6.    Flash memory-Micron Technology,USA
• 7.    Green Steel- Veena Sahazwalla, Australia
• 8.    Nanocomposite Dental Materials- Sumita Mitra, USA
• 9.    Regrowth of Bones- Nina Tandon, EpiBone, USA
• 10. Rotimatic- Zimplistic Pte , Singapore
• 11. Tiny Robots- Prof Vijay Kumar, USA
• 12. Water Technology Visionary- Anil Jha, USA
• 13. Wearable Sweat sensor- EnLiSense , USA
• 14. Wearable and reusable outpatient ambulatory ECG monitoring products- NimbleHeart, USA

Read Their stories: https://www.academia.edu/120223468/Global_Innovators_of_Indian_Origin_2023

1. Acoustography- Dr. Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, USA 2. Bio surfactants-TeeGene Biotech. UK 3. Coal Science- Dr. Hardarshan Singh Valia, USA 4. Carrier Gas Extraction technology-Gradiant corporation, USA omputer Science- Raj Reddy, USA 6. Flash memory-Micron Technology,USA 7. Green Steel- Veena Sahazwalla, Australia 8. Nanocomposite Dental Materials- Sumita Mitra, USA 9. Regrowth of Bones- Nina Tandon, EpiBone, USA 10. Rotimatic- Zimplistic Pte , Singapore 11. Tiny Robots- Prof Vijay Kumar, USA 12. Water Technology Visionary- Anil Jha, USA 13. Wearable Sweat sensor- EnLiSense , USA 14. Wearable and reusable outpatient ambulatory ECG monitoring products- NimbleHeart, US 2. Bio surfactants-TeeGene Biotech. UK 3. Coal Science- Dr. Hardarshan Singh Valia, USA 4. Carrier Gas Extraction technology-Gradiant corporation, USA 5. Computer Science- Raj Reddy, USA 6. Flash memory-Micron Technology,USA 7. Green Steel- Veena Sahazwalla, Australia 8. Nanocomposite Dental Materials- Sumita Mitra, USA 9. Regrowth of Bones- Nina Tandon, EpiBone, USA 10. Rotimatic- Zimplistic Pte , Singapore 11. Tiny Robots- Prof Vijay Kumar, USA 12. Water Technology Visionary- Anil Jha, USA 13. Wearable Sweat sensor- EnLiSense , USA 14. Wearable and reusable outpatient ambulatory ECG monitoring products- NimbleHeart, US

Patent strategy:Global innovators of Indian origin and Resident Indian Innovators

Indian Government has taken several policy measures to boost patenting by resident Indians including faculty researchers, scientists working in public funded research institutes and independent innovators. The results are encouraging and lays the ground for next level of journey. This paper gives few examples of `Gobal Innovators of Indian Origin’ and `Resident Indian Innovators’ to explain the pathway to global excellence.

Paper:  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4754395

INEX India 2023, Goa

 Indian Innovators Association started organizing International Innovation Fair since 2016 in association with global network partners. This year's event held in Goa attracted 100 Indian and global innovators. The yearbook 2023 was also released. Few glimpses:

Book Review: Indian Innovators by Akshat Agrawal

Author Akshat Agrawal is a product of IIT Delhi and currently Director at Alpha Beta Classes, a startup in Education domain. This is a story of 20 Indian Innovators written in simple narrative form with no pretension of discovering any unique Indian innovation methodology. The innovators covered are:

Anirudha Sharma formed a team in the first year of engineering at RTU, worked on touch user interface technology and received first bout of appreciation when their team `Team Sparsh’ won first prize in Hardware Design competition at BITS Pilani. The spark came to Hemanth Satyanarayana while doing MS at SUNY, Buffalo after graduation from IITM. He developed `Trail room using Augmented Reaity’, a technology that lets you try clothes digitally without having to wear them. More familiar to me is long journey of Mrinmayee Bhushan who successfully developed, patented and commercialized Romantaque, hair growth inhibitor. Met the 3Nethra team of professionals at CIIE for Piramal awards and very comfortable to interact with a startup team not composed of teens. MittiCool innovator Mansukhbhai was a celebrity among grass root innovators scouted and supported by National Innovation Foundation (NIF). Met many of them at Anil Gupta’s workshop in Ahmedabad. TePP supported many innovators like Artin Dynmics incubated at Technopark, Trivendrum. Chandrasekhar Nair managed the most successful TePP Outreach Center. Research spin-offs are a rarity in India and Dr Nitin Joshi stands out for pursuing research on nanoparticle based targeted drug delivery into an innovation. Anirudha Sharma and Prateek Bumb started their entrepreneurial journey with a business plan for technology to capture CO2 from industrial flue gas at IDEAS 2008 , became part of Indian Youth Delegation to COP15 by 2009. India Innovation Initiative (i3) inspired many innovators like Priyanka Sharma, inventor of disposable plastic biochip, Pratik Mahapatra who developed a process to kae paper from weeds growing unchecked in lakes. Sachidanand Swami from IITD working on touch tables is waiting for the big break. Sriram Kannan working on location tracking without GPS, Abjijit Joshi developing implantable biosensor for diabetes monitoring, Ganesh interacting with virtual 3D objects, Ahmad Khan constructing roads plastic waste. DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programm also supported many innovators like CareMother. Stanford Biodesign Fellowshop program led  innovators like Chinmay Deothar to develop and license laproscopic sugerey instrument to US firm. Arunachalam with development of low cost sanitary pad making machine created opened a huge market for a consumer product. Startup Village has many success stories and Innoz of Deepak Ravindran is one such a one. Prof Amarnath at IITB groomed many startups and Ankit Mehta of IdeaForge is one such a story.

The Innovators need to be celebrated as builders of new India, designing products for make In India. The organizations that supported these innovators at early stage also need a brief mention and for that reason I highlighted the small but significant role played by govt funding agencies and mentors.

DEMAND DRIVEN INNOVATION: LEARNING FROM CHINA

In India, we think preferential treatment to local innovation is stupid economics and sinful global behavior. How did the Chinese manage to support local innovations with a public procurement policy consistent with international treaties? Some excerpts from the PhD Thesis of Radomir Tylecote.

• The Chinese government has created demand-side innovation policies to help give indigenous innovators a favourable environment, including procurement preference for domestic innovative products, and technical standard-setting.
• In 1992, Beijing published the Government Procurement Law, mandating (with exceptions) that government procurement purchases should be limited to domestic products , with support for enterprises used to support those which purchase domestic high technologies.
• In public procurement, the World Trade Organisation’s Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) does not apply to all government procurement, and GPA coverage to each member state is based on negotiation (WTO members are not yet required to join the GPA, and China is currently negotiating GPA accession, meaning it can include preferences for domestic goods and companies in state procurement practices.
• Procurement policy was reinforced from January 2005, as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the Opinion on Accelerating the Large Company Strategy in the Electronics and Information Industry, stating that support should be provided “to the leading large companies”.
• In 2009 the Circular on Carrying out the Work on Accreditation of National Indigenous Innovation Products, (a.k.a. Circular 618, by MOST, the NDRC, and the MOF) created a national-level “catalogue” of preferred procurement products in the six high-tech areas of computing and application equipment, communications, modern office equipment, software, new energy, and high-efficiency and energy-saving products.
•   An upgraded catalogue following the Circular listed 240 forms of industrial equipment in 18 areas that Chinese firms are encouraged to manufacture, to upgrade China’s manufacturing base, including solar PV. Participating firms were offered subsidies and tax incentives, alongside priority in procurement. 
• This was followed in November 2009 by the Indigenous Innovation Product Accreditation Policy, whereby state-procured products had to contain Chinese IP. Beijing’s municipal procurement catalogue contained 42 products and just one from a foreign-invested manufacturer; Shanghai’s had 258, with two from foreign-invested firms; Nanjing’s list had none. 
• These initiatives have been pursued in different ways by different levels of state. Procurement has built a platform to take Chinese firms from early innovation to market entry, and demonstrates a more direct approach among local government, and province-level cities in particular (the four major municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing) in supporting their high tech firms.

·       The indigenous IP issue fizzled out in 2011, but it had become entrenched in many people’s minds.