this presentation based on a talk given on jan 18 draws upon several previous thoughts and ideas, comments are invited and usual disclaimers apply, feedback may be sent at anilgb @ gmail. com

1. anil k gupta National innovation Foundation ( nifindia.org) [email_address] www.techpedia.in iima Creative communities, innovative individuals : harnessing imagination of minds on the margins for yet another renaissance Creative communities, innovative individuals : harnessing imagination of minds on the margins for yet another renaissance http://www.fatcap.com/artist/croaksantana.html Anil k gupta Honey bee network and national innovation foundation, sristi ahmedabad [email_address] www.sristi.org/anilg blog [email_address]

2. Honey Bee network ( 1987-88 ) A nameless, faceless innovator or traditional knowledge holder comes in contact with the Network and gets the identity

3. Mapping the creative mind at grassroots Cultural Educational Technological Institutional folkloric

4. Leveraging long tail and compressing nose of innovations

5. Long tail of innovation ( only a few achieve scale, a large number sell a few pieces or in a few communities ) Long nose of innovation: Take long time to come into market Room for maneuver

6. Let scale not be the enemy of the sustainability : logic of the Long Tail, investing in ideas, technologies with limited diffusion, without that sustainability is threatened Let small scale innovations be not ignored, they enrich the eco-system for innovation and entrepreneurship

7. CCCC: Curiosity, CREATIVITY, COMPASSION, COLLABORATION Blending

8. What is a skill: how do we convert such rich skills into enterprises, is economic meltdown a good time to create new icons of hope Bhabi Mahato: an unrecognized genius

10. Innovation Investment Enterprise GOLDEN TRIANGLE FOR REWARDING CREATIVITY

12. Innovations in institutions, incentives and intermediary mechanisms

13. Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels: Future sources of learning, creativity and innovation would not be restricted to formal boundaries of organisations. Polycentric Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels:

14. Inclusive leadership requires dealing with dissent and diversity : Ownership of future strategies cannot be widespread if the contribution for creating them is only from a chosen few.

15. Building capacity at different levels requires distribution of responsibilities.

16. Creating networks : No one organization is likely to possess sufficient information or knowledge to enable it to achieve its goals

17. Shaping future requires working sometimes without templates : Integration of different streams of thought and action require incorporation, assimilation and adaptation of the strengths of each system

18. Shadows of sustainable spirit: trying to look for frugal, diverse, resilient and simultaneous solutions , as nature does all the time

19. Many castles were built in India during long spells of drought to generate jobs : any lessons here? http://www.unurth.com/537394/Pablo-Herrero-David-de-la-Mano-Valladolid-Spain

20. Patan patola a seven hundred year old tradition-: cultural entreprenurship

21. Leadership is to start early : building consciousness among children so that they internalize the logic of future societal transformation

23. I want a high tech school bus which can give alert signal as it approaches my bus stop. I would not miss my bus this way!!: pallavi, 9 th class I want to integrate the gait of a person with a mobile. As walking style differ person to person, the software will be able to identify the signals based on the body movements while walking If the mobile will sense a different movement once act will lock itself and send a message about its location predefined number. : anurag rathor 9 th class Why pierce skin to get a blood test done? I wish to make a blood testing system that would do the required test by scanning the skin surface or testing the skin excretions :srishti class iv

24. Breathing sensor apparatus to assist physically challenged This system consists of a circuit which uses the energy generated through breathing exercise. It may display several options such as food, It thus enables paralyzed people articulate their wish and be self-reliant in routine activities. The technology has a range of applications like operating a wheelchair, electronic appliances, prevention of accidents, detecting thefts, etc. Susant Patnaik, Class VIII, now in 12 th Bhubaneshwar Back Back

25. Nisha Chaube NOIDA Bag with folding seat

26. Yathartha Saxena Pantnagar Triangular wheels

28. Prakhar Parashar Hoshangabad Increasing life of mosquito coil by almost 20%

29. Piyush Agarwal Hazaribagh Automatic withdrawal system for clothesline for rains

30. Rain Water Harvesting Umbrellas Ojasvi Goel & Saihiel Bakshi Delhi

31. Ullas Keshav, Poornesh A S, Amogh M Hooli, Vignesh D Nernekar, Akshay Tulasigeri Dakshina Kannada LPG Exhausting Indicator An electronic device that informs the user that the LPG in the gas cylinder is going to exhaust. When the weight of the cylinder decreases beyond a certain fixed weight, the signal gets activated.

32. Jallandhar

33. Jallandhar

34. Remya was in class tenth, when she designed this

36. Leadership is to ask questions about constituents which have no vote : nature and perfect strangers

38. Solutions for the poor people, by the poor Non stick clay pan: Rs 60 /= Mansukh Bhai Prajapati, Surendra Nagar, Gujarat

39. Md Rojadeen: cooker for coffee creativity in champaran ( 22 nd shodh yatra Dec 2008)

40. Service at your door step: Sheikh Jahangir, Jalgaon, Maharshtra Fortune at the Top of Ethical and Innovation Pyramid Scooter mounted floor mill Scooterbased washing machine

43. Phone operated switch & others Mr. Prem Singh Saini

44. Compressed air car: join hands Mr. Kanak Gogoi

45. Automatic watering in flower pots and others Mr. Abdul Kaleem Video-electric shock Video-flower pot

48. Frugality is thus imperative, it is not a choice

56. Leadership is to see the intertwining of sacred with profane, in pursuit of sustainability: CREATING PUBLIC STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE

59. Voluntarism is the essence of volition: Innovations in civil society sector: social innovations –for elderly, lone mothers, minorities

60. JANAKI Devi, Western Champaran, Bihar, innovator of a herbal pesticide, patent filed by NIF on her innovation, testing done in SRISTI natural product lab

62. What can Spain, India and China learn from Brazilian and other slums Mr Ubirajara, 47 , in slums around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, inventor of stand on front wheel of cycle More stable, easier to vend things, portable bench

63. Rider Induced bicycle Mr. Kanak Das, Assam Bicycle based sprayer Mr. Mansukhbhai Jagani, Gujarat Bicycle with gear Mr. Jayanti J Patel,Gujarat Bamboo bicycle Mr. Dodhi Pathak, Assam Amphibious Bicycle Mohd. Saidullah, Bihar Bicycle based mobile spray pump Subhas Vasantrao Jagtap, Maharastra Multipurpose Bicycle Md. Kamruddin, Rajasthan Bicycle operated ..if09ideoikram_rathore.mpg pump Mr. Vikram Rathore, AP Bicycle based portable Pump Mr. Nasiruddin Gayen, WB Bicycle based Innovations

64. Honey Bee network in Limpopo, South africa Modified donkey cart (One among many designs ) Differential-40 kg, what is it doing here, amrutbhai What it was???? What it became

65. CHIN: Shanzhai Breathing Apparatus Honey Bee Network in china TUFE The crude breathing machine assembled by Ji jun hai, Meng wen hai and Ma bao shun pumping life into Xiaoyan’s lungs!

66. Empathetic innovations Pollution control device

68. Leadership is to nurture Designs that can self correct themselves: autopoesis designs

75. Innovation Investment Enterprise GOLDEN TRIANGLE for rewarding CREATIVITY Leadership is to take note of ex ante and ex poste transaction costs and deal with them upfront, If not these are transferred to the weaker partner

76. biodiversity Modern R and D Give me a place to stand, I will move the word

77. Shodh yatra every summer, every winter

78. Food for body, soul and the eyes

79. Satvik Traditional Food Festival, iim campus

80. Kitchen King- automatic food making machine Master Abhishek Bhagat, class tenth , Bhagalpur, Bihar

82. Bixa orellana Natural dye obtained from seeds and used for flavouring puddings and sweets (Arku Valley) Jampras: arku valley ( community Knowledge)

89. ( g2G) Business Development and MVIF National Innovation Foundation www.nifindia.org/bd

92. Product enquiries: Sl no. Innovation/product Countires 1 Coconut/palm tree climbing device USA, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Australia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Iran, West Indies 2 Entech oil expeller USA, United Kingdom, Australia, Phillipines, Canada, Kenya, Colombia, S. Africa, Switzerland, Poland, Indonesia, Belgium 3 Garlic peeling machine Slovenia, USA, Turkey, Peru, Singapore, Iran , Venezuela, Pakistan 4 Pomegranate deseeding machine USA, Australia, Turkey, Venezuela, Hongkong, Israel, Netherlands, Thailand, UAE, Iran, United Kingdom 5 Cassava peeling machine Congo, USA, Benin, Nigeria, Kenya, UAE, Uganda 6 Aaruni tilting cart Uganda 7 Coconut defibring machine China 8 Coconut dehusker Mexico, New Zealand, USA, Philippines, Bangladesh 9 Lemon cutting machine S. Africa 10 Milking machine Bangladesh, Uganda, Ecuador 11 Palm leaf mat weaving machine Fiji 12 Rain Gun (Chandraprabha) Sudan 13 Tea making machine Bangladesh, 14 Tile making machine Bangladesh, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Zambia 15 Trench digging machine Pakistan 16 Zero head water turbine Egypt 17 Arecanut dehusking machine Chile

96. How to reward: Portfolio of Incentives for farmers’ innovations Forms of incentives Material non material Target Of individual Incentives collective material-individual Ipr or non ipr based awards Awards R and d grants Endowments non-material-individual Recognition Honour Memorial material-collective Trust funds Venture and incubation funds Collective awards Supp for Institution building endowments non-material-collective Policy changes Pedagogic changes

97. What are stairs used for: climbing up?

98. Please think for a moment deeply

99. What are stairs used for: climbing around, into each other’s heart: horizontal bonding between formal and informal sector, science and spaces

100. How did it happen: The journey….. SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH AND INITIATIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND INSTITUTIONS (www. SRISTI.org ) info@sristi.org GRASSROOTS INNOVATION AUGMENTATION NETWORK (www GIAN.org) NATIONAL INNOVATION FOUNDATION ( www. NIFindia.org ) info@nifindia.org [email_address] Honey bee network , informal global social movement, started in 1987-88,