Date:February 15th, 2022
Time:11.00 AM onwards
Venue: Zoom Platform
Objectives:
- To initiate awareness programs regarding intellectual property rights (IPR)
- To involve students to generate ideas through the expert talks
- To know the various platforms and intricate aspects of intellectual property rights
Speaker Details:
Dr. Parag Kalkar
Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Management at Savitribai Phule
Pune University Member, Management Council, Academic Council, and Senate.
Dr. Ganesh Rao
Director
Pune Business School (PBS)
Mr. Avinash Thakur
CEO-AIC Pinnacle
Atal Innovation Council Mission, Niti Aayog, DCMSME, Ministry of MSME
Ministry of Electronics & It, Govt of India.
Mr. Santosh Kumar Gupta.
Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Govt Of India.
Participants Details: 100 including students, faculty members, director, HOD’s
The Workshop on IPR awareness a road to innovation ecosystem with 100 participants was held virtually on 15th February 2022 on the Zoom platform by Dr. D. Y. Patil B- School in collaboration with the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Govt of India., Faculty of Commerce and Management at Savitribai Phule Pune University, AIMS Pune chapter and AIC-Pinnacle. The President of DYPBS Startup and Innovation Cell, Dr. Sonali Saha started with the event and welcomed all the dignitaries to the event. Under the prominent leaders of the Director and Chief-Advisor, Dr. Amol Gawande, DYPBS Start-Up and Innovation Cell have been established to promote innovation in the institution through multitudinous modes leading to innovation, promoting an entrepreneurial eco-system in the campus.
The eminent speaker talked about the importance of an institutional ecosystem that would help students ideate and innovate in the areas of interest now and later in the future. It is significant that the student’s mindset is molded during the academic programs through teaching-learning and self-initiatives. A major emphasis for management students should be on the product innovations that would help enhance the business processes they are a part of. While doing so students should develop skills in ‘problem identification which is the crux of innovation. It is necessary that the students understand the importance of the real asset that is ‘intellect ‘they carry that can optimally be utilized in idea generation. Awareness of different programs, schemes, initiatives within the government jurisdiction, [private players in the market would help students to think in the direction of innovation.
Academic institutions should develop programs/courses/cells that are project-based/outcome-based. The ecosystem should be conducive to supporting students w.r.t technological aspects, technical writing problem identification-based projects, etc.
The participants had questions that were intriguing and deliberated by the eminent experts in the IPR and academics. The students’ learnings have been a stepping stone to initiate the student-driven activities in the coming future of startup and innovation cell if DYPBS.
Media coverage, Feedback from guest/ participants:
Various forms of social media: Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram are used to cover the pre and post-event activities like creative, crisp reports along with tagging the Resource person in our social media coverage.
Key outcome of the activity:
The program stands as a major significance for the comprehension and growth of the start-up and innovation initiatives to build a robust ecosystem for the B-School.
Material
Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and Innovation Ecosystems.
Ács and Szerb (2009), Ács et al. (2009), Ács and Szerb (2012), Ács et al. (2013), Ács et al. (2014) and Szerb et al. (2018) define the entrepreneurship ecosystem as a complex collaborative network of systems and subsystems that interact dynamically where individuals incorporate attitudes, skills and aspirations in search of innovative ventures. However, this entrepreneurship ecosystem is restricted to observing the behavioral phenomena of entrepreneurial activity, such as attitudes, skills and aspirations, which are the driving forces of capacity and the search for the generation of innovations.
The intellectual property ecosystem functions as a network of relationships between government, business and institutional actors that interact dynamically to provide protection for the intellectual assets generated by entrepreneurs who wish to innovate.
The innovation ecosystem also consists of a relationship network in which all economic agents interact with each other (Moore, 1996). In principle, the innovation ecosystem operates with the
objective of gathering the necessary inputs for innovation, combining them in order to generate and materialize new goods, processes, services, among other innovative assets. It is essential to note that the entrepreneurship ecosystem brings together important elements for momentum, capacity and the creative inspiration of the innovation ecosystem. The intellectual property ecosystem also influences the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems, objectively interfering in the strategies and stimulating individuals and organizations to undertake and innovate.
1) The entrepreneurship and intellectual property ecosystem being relevant inputs for the concrete generation of technological innovations. When identifying market opportunities, they seek to develop their ideas and protect them to start their businesses, in search of economic gains from innovative activity.