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Anil K. Gupta
Indian Institute of Management, Vastrapur,
Ahmedabad - 380 015. anilg@iimahd.ernet.in, anilg@sristi.org website: |
Anil K Gupta |
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Ph.D., Management, M.Sc.(Genetics), B.Sc.(Hons), Agri. Research and Action Interests: Expanding global,
national and local space for grassroots inventors and innovators
to ensure recognition, respect and reward for them; protection of
their Intellectual Property Rights; blending excellence in formal
and informal science; ethical issues in conservation and prospecting
of biodiversity; linking innovations, investments and enterprise;
creating Knowledge Network at different levels for augmenting grassroots
green innovations and build a global value chain to get the creativity
its due; support to Honey Bee Network including about 124,000 ideas,
innovations and examples (not all unique) of traditional knowledge
from various parts of the country and rest of the world on farm
and non farm sustainable technologies
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Helped set up the National Micro Venture Innovation Fund, the first of its kind in the world at NIF with the support o SIDBI on October 1, 2003 through a collaboration between SIDBI and NIF as per the announcement by Finance Minister in Union Budget 2002 in response to our request. Helped establish NIF (National Innovation Foundation, India) (March 2000) with an initial corpus of Rs.20 crores (USD five million) with a view to help India become an inventive and creative society and a global leader in sustainable technologies by scouting and sustaining grassroots innovations. Union Finance Minister of India announced this fund in his Budget speech for 1999 in response to our work to develop a national register of innovations, help link informal and formal science, convert innovations into products through linkage with investment and enterprise, help set up incubators etc. NIF has Dr.R.A.Mashelkar, Secretary, DSIR and Director General CSIR, as its Chairperson and Prof.Anil K Gupta as its Executive Vice Chairperson apart from fourteen members on its Board from diversified fields, including Director General, ICAR and Secretary, DARE, Director, IIMA, Secretaries, Finance, Expenditure, Science and Technology, Enforcement Director, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Gujarat, leading private sector industrialist Mr Anand Mahindra, eminent Gandhian women NGO leader Ela Ben, Prof. Kuldeep Mathur, etc. National Project Director for a GEF (Global Environment Facility) and UNDP supported PDF B project on Conservation of Biodiversity in Dry Lands in North Gujarat sanctioned to Ministry of Environment and Forestry, designed and implemented by SRISTI, to develop a larger project for conservation of faunal and floral biodiversity in two sanctuaries and agro-biodiversity in farms with in and outside protected areas (completed in 2001 and approved by GEF council without any revision). Set up GIAN (Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network) Society and Trust (1997) to scale up grassroots innovations and convert these into viable products or services with appropriate benefit sharing arrangements, with a corpus of Rs 50 lacs in collaboration with Gujarat Government as a consequence of International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots, January 11‑14, 1997 organised at IIMA. Helping establish four more GIANs in different parts of the country with funds allocation from NIF and already set up two, for North-East at IIT-G and for north India at Jaipur. Convinced by the necessity of the NIF, Commonwealth Secretariat has sought Prof. Gupta’s help in establishing similar NIFs in all the Commonwealth countries. He has also been requested to review the performance Commonwealth Science Council (CSC), UK. Prof. Gupta has also helped in organising the Commonwealth countries Ministerial gathering and arranged to showcase outstanding grassroots innovations at the exhibition in South Africa during 9 -15 June 2002. CSC has also decided to adopt Honey Bee Network as a model to identify, document and disseminate innovations at grassroots. In addition an MOU is being finalised among CSIR, NIF, SRISTI from India and ARC, CSIR and Northern Province of South Africa for technology transfer from grassroots in India to farmers and artisans there. Worked on a three year Pew Award of US $150,000 (1993‑1996) for Biodiversity Conservation and Environment granted by Pew Scholars program at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to ten outstanding scholars around the world. This award has been used to strengthen Honey Bee network- a global network of activists, scholars, policy makers and farmers around the issue of indigenous technological and institutional innovations for sustainable natural resource management, and building bridges between formal and informal science. Facilitated collaborative agreement of NIF with CSIR, ICMR, and several other research institutions; Positions: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Chair in Entrepreneurship, IIMA (2003-2008) Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation, Ahmedabad, 2000- present President, SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) and Editor, Honey Bee (a newsletter on indigenous innovations) Chairperson, Ravi J Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, Indian Institute of Management, 1993 ‑1994. Chairperson, Research and Publications, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1990‑92. Professor, Centre for Management in agriculture, Indian Institute of management, Ahmedabad, 1981 to present. Adviser (Farming Systems Research), Bangladesh Agri. Research Council & Bangladesh Agri. Research Institute, October 1985 to November 1986. Management Specialist (Rural Development), Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, Action Research Project on District Project Planning in six drought prone districts of the country, 1978‑1981. Farm Representative/Agri. Finance Officer, Syndicate Bank‑ a nationalised commercial bank‑ 1974‑1978.
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Padma Shri National Award given by the Hon'ble President of India on the eve of Republic Day 26 January 2004 for distinguished achievements in the field of management education Joint recipient of Science-in-Society Award instituted by The Indian Science Congress Association. The award was given on 3rd January 2004 by the Hon'ble Minister of HRD at the 91st Session of the Indian Science Congress held in Chandigarh. Adjudged as one of the fifty most influential people in the field of intellectual property rights around the world in 2003, Managing Intellectual Property (July-August 2003, Issue 131). Kasturbhai Lalbhai Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMA for a period of three years from 2002. Fellow, The World Academy of Art and Science, California, 2001 Adjudged as one of the Star Personalities of Asia among the fifty leaders at the forefront of change by Business Week, New York.- Business Week, Asian Edition, July 2, 2001, www.businessweekasia.com BBC gave a wide coverage of activities being carried out by SRISTI and Honey Bee Network in support of grassroots innovators and telecast a film on our work viz., ‘Patently Obvious’ and broadcast the same in the month of June 2001, also a world Radio broadcast a program on grassroots innovators in June 2001 and again on March 23, 2002 in Business Today program Nominated for World Technology Award, (Environment) 2001 UK, and currently member of jury for these awards Nominated for Stockholm Challenge Award, 2000 Received Asian Innovation Award Gold from Far Eastern Economic Review (Oct 26, 2000) for coordinating SRISTI and Honey Bee Network www.feer.com and served as judge for the same and Asian Young Inventors award in 2001, The Economist London reviewed the work of SRISTI and Honey Bee Network in a special article on Innovation and Intellectual Property, June 2001; invited by International Herald Tribune to write a special article on Riches of Poor (International Herald Tribune, October 11, 2001) Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Pew Conservation Scholar, 1993‑96; Best Teacher Award in IIMA by students (1982, 1985) and by Association of Indian Management Schools, (1996).
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Former Hon'ble President of India, Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam graced three National Grassroots Innovation Award functions organized by NIF. In June 2002, the Commonwealth Science Council adopted the goals of the NIF, India, and the Honey Bee Network, as the direction of its future mission. The Commonwealth Science Council decided to become a Common Wealth Innovation Network. NIF, chaired by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, Director General, CSIR was set up in March 2000 by the DST with a corpus Rs. 20 crores, essentially in response to the work being carried out for the last 13 years by the voluntary members of the Honey Bee Network. In June 2002, the Commonwealth Science Council adopted the goals of the NIF, India, and the Honey Bee Network, as the direction of its future mission. The Commonwealth Science Council decided to become a Common Wealth Innovation Network (though the move did not go very far due to aid politics). Contributed to setting up on BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council), DBT, by having consultation and preparing background paper for DPR for the same, 2008 Assisted DST in creating a framework for Setting Up Village Knowledge Management System for districts affected by Farmers’ suicides, bringing about a book on the same, 2008 NIF, chaired by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, FRS, was set up in February 2000 by the DST Developed a portal of technology projects viz., http://techpedia.sristi.org to link the needs of industry and grassroots innovators with young technology minds and to promote collaborative research. NIF has facilitated the filing of patents through pro bono help in India as well as in USA on behalf of innovators, and in one case has even licensed the technology to a US company, with the entire money going to the innovator. There is only one purpose in Professor Gupta’s life and that is to make India innovative and generate a new model of poverty alleviation relying on innovation based enterprises.
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Dr. Gupta earned his Ph.D. degree in management from Kurukshetra University (India) in 1986 after his masters in Biochemical Genetics in 1974 from Haryana Agricultural University, Haryana. He is currently a professor in the Centre for Management in Agriculture. His unique work analysing indigenous knowledge of farmers and pastoralists and building bridges to science based knowledge has led to the honour of being elected at a young age to India’s National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and recognition through Pew Conservation Scholar Award of USD 150,000, 1993‑96 from University Of Michigan. Biodiversity conservation through documentation, value addition and dissemination of local peoples’ innovative resource conservation practices is the thrust in future work. His desire to develop a platform to recognise, respect and reward local innovators was the stimulus behind the creation of the Honey Bee network. The name Honey Bee was chosen to reflect how innovations are collected without making the innovators poorer and how connections are created between innovators. Honey Bee network has demonstrated that by building upon a resource in which poor people are rich in, that is their knowledge, a new paradigm of development can be unleashed. To help provide support structures for grass roots innovators and link formal and informal knowledge systems, SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions), a global initiative and a NGO, to network local innovators was established in 1993. It provides organisational support to the Honey Bee network in over 70 countries. The key objectives of SRISTI are to strengthen the capacity of grassroots level innovators and inventors engaged in conserving biodiversity to (a) protect their intellectual property rights, (b) experiment to add value to their knowledge, and (c) enrich their cultural and institutional basis of dealing with nature and modern science. National Innovation Foundation was set up by Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2000 to make India a Global leader in sustainable technologies. Compared to 948 entries in its first national competition, it mobilised more than 13000 entries in second year. Organised an international contest for scouting innovation through IFAD Rome, and three grassroots awardees from three countries were honoured at Global Knowledge Conference held in Malaysia in March 2000. The forceful presentation on green grassroots innovations at Commonwealth Science Council has brought about a significant change in its focus veering the CSC towards the goals of Honey Bee network. Working towards setting up Global Innovation Foundation so that India becomes a sanctuary or an incubator for green grassroots innovations from all over the world. |
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Organised an international colloquium on Social Justice Network in collaboration with British Council and ICSSR, 28-29 Oct 2009, at IIMA. Organized the first International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots for sustainable natural resource management, January 11 14, 1997 at IIMA cosponsored by various national and international organisations such as World bank, commonwealth foundation and secretariat, NABARD, ICAR, CSIR, SRISTI, FAO/FTPP, etc., attended by grassroots innovators, policy makers, academics etc., from 40 countries. GIAN- a green venture promotion fund was set up as one of the follow up actions. Organised an International Conference On Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability for Rural Development sponsored by UNESCO in Feb., 1999; First National Workshop on Indian Incubator for Innovation Based Enterprises held at IIMA sponsored by Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dec 1998; Coordinated four workshops on Inventors of India (1998-2008): coordinated eight executive training Workshops on Harnessing Intellectual Property for Strategic Competitive Advantage at IIMA during 2001-2009. Organized workshops on innovations for Volvo, Tata group of industries, Reliance Industries, Thermax, Walchand group of companies, Tega Industries and several educational, research and other institutions. Have conducted national workshops on Grassroots Innovations in China, Brazil, Indonesia, and Philippines in collaboration with APCTT, New Delhi apart from conducting regional workshop on the theme for its partner institutions at IIMA in 2007. Have conducted an International Conference on Global GIAN (Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network) with participants from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Canada and America at Tianjin University of Finance and Economics,Tianjin, during May 31- June 2, 2007 and launched an online and offline platform to recognize, respect and reward green grassroots innovators and traditional knowledge holders. Have been requested to carry out a performance review of Commonwealth Knowledge Network of Commonwealth Science Council, UK Have organised sessions/workshops on indigenous innovation and intellectual property rights in various national and international conferences of natural science societies dealing with Crop Science, Agronomy, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, range management, soil and water conservation, etc. Have been invited as keynote speaker in scores of international conferences from 1981 to till date, too many to be enumerated but including IAUES anthropological conference, rural sociology, farming systems, common property resource management, IAAE agricultural economics, AIPPI on IPRs, OECD on biodiversity, Range management, ICLARM on aquatic diversity, IFAD and EU on hunger and poverty, Universi¬ties of Arizona, Upsala, Hohenhiem, Boston, Aarhus, Mexico, TWAS, Trieste, Chili etc., in addition universities of Harvard, Duke, MIT Cornell, Indiana, Oxford, etc., have invited for seminars, meetings and presentations. Invited talks at the International Conference on Biodiversity in Paris during 27-28 Jan, 2005; the international conference on "Can knowledge be made just?" in Essen, Germany during 21 - 23 March 2005; Meeting of the Advisory Group for the Consortium on S&T for Sustainable Development in Paris from Jan 24-26, 2004; International Workshop on Innovations in the Biosciences in Columbia University, New York during 20 - 21 May, 2004 workshop on Ethics, Globalisation and Hunger: In Search of Appropriate Policies organised by Cornell University in Ithaca during Nov. 17-19, 2004; International Conference on Social Technology during 19 - 20 Nov., 2004 in Sao Paulo; delivered keynote address at the workshop on Innovations in Technology and Government held at the Kennedy School of Government on October 30-31,2003; participated in the International Workshop on Property Rights Collective Action and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources, September 29-October 2, 2003 in Rome, jointly organised by IFPRI, CAPRI and IPGRI; Regional Stakeholders' Workshop on the Thematic Evaluation of Local Knowledge and innovations in the Asia Region in Bangkok on 23 July 2003; Planning Group for the Consortium on S & T for Sustainable Development in Paris during 24-26 July 2003; high level forum on science, technology and innovation in the Commonwealth: Challenges and Opportunities in Johannesburg during 10-11 June 2003; ICT Development Forum during May 20-21, 2003 in Bonn, Germany; International Conference on Biotechnology and Biodiversity in St.Louis during April 4-6, 2003; Expert Workshop on Traditional Knowledge organised by Commission on IPR at Commonwealth Science Council in London (Jan 2002); Taskforce on Technology, Innovation and Society organised by World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Feb 2002; International Workshop on Science, Technology and Sustainability: Harnessing Institutional Synergies in Trieste (Feb 2002); Conference on International Patent System in Geneva organised by WIPO (March 2002); Workshop on S&T for Sustainable Development, organised by Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, International Council for Science and the Third World Academy of Sciences (May 2002); Workshop on Democracy and Global Governance: Challenges for the XXI Century in Port Alegre, Brazil (Jan 2001); Policy Forum on Using Knowledge for Development at Wilton Park, London (March 2001); Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development in Chiang Mai, Thailand (March 2001); Workshop on Development by Design, organised by the Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge in Washington (July 2001); II WIPO International Conference on Electronic Commerce and IP in Geneva (Sep 2001); Workshop on IPR, WTO, TRIPS Agreement and Environment, organised by UNEP in Geneva (Dec 2001); International Conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy: Science and the Precautionary Principle at Harvard University, Boston (Sep 2000); Global Dialogue on the Role of the Village in the 21st Century: Crops, Jobs and Livelihood in Hannover, Germany (August 2000); European Science Foundation’s Workshop on Biotechnology, Agriculture and Environmental Policy in Rome (May 2000) and Second Global Knowledge Conference in Kula Lumpur (March 2000). Coordinated a large research programme (6,50,000 CAD) 1993-2003 on Indigenous Knowledge Innovation and Network (Global) and Grassroots Incentives for Sustainable Natural Resource Management through collaboration between IIMA and SRISTI on one hand and other editors of regional language version of Honey Bee. The phase III of this project focuses on women innovators and knowledge network. A multimedia database on Honey Bee and SRISTI's collection on grassroots innovations was presented at the first Global Knowledge Conference, Toronto, 1997. Coordinated a project on creating a multi language electronic database on grassroots innovations developed by Honey Bee Network and SRISTI, supported by NISSAT, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. Finished a research project on Harnessing Wisdom for Watershed Management partly supported by FAO, pursuing research on in situ conservation of agro biodiversity and generating incentives for the same. WIPO has sponsored international case studies on Role of IPRs in Benefit Sharing to be circulated to General Assembly of WIPO. Has been a consultant to CGIAR/World Bank, Swiss Development Co operation, BMZ, IADS, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council and Institute, Ford Foundation, IDRC, UNESCO, ISNAR, FAO, IFAD, National Institute of Health, USA, UNDP, WIPO, UNEP, CBD, WIPO, FTPP/FAO, OECD, UNDP, besides numerous national organisations such as NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development), voluntary organisations, Member, Expert Committee constituted by Government of India to revamp Khadi and Village Industries Board and launch of new programmes, Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR), MOEF, co-ordinated a joint report on Reorganisation of Indian Council of Agricultural Re¬search Headquarters (1991). Since 1993, have reduced consultancy considerably to focus all energies on local innovations. |
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| Select Publications: on grassroots innovations, biodiversity and disaster management: (For Full Paper Details Click here) |
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Innovations for Stimulating Sustainable and Equitable Growth in
‘THE INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009-2010, Strengthening
Innovation for the Prosperity of the Nations, ed. AUGUSTO LOPEZ-CLAROS,
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, p 300
Network, Institution and movement: the case of the Honey Bee Network,
published in “Farmer First Revisited: Innovation for Agricultural
Research and Development” (Eds. Ian Scoones and John Thompson),
London, Practical Action Publishing, 2009 The labourer’s manifesto, Indian Express, April 18, 2009, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-labourers-manifesto/448247/
; Nature never has more than what it needs, DNA, April 12, 2009,
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1247146 ; Mass involvement
must for knowledge society, DNA, April 5, 2009, http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1245463
; Not Just Physical,” Indian Express, March 16, 2009, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/not-just-physical/434972/
; Six Lakh Ideas, Indian Express, February 25, 2009, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/six-lakh-ideas/427715/ Is a just system also fair? Traversing the domain of knowledge,
institutions, culture and ethics. Published in “Who Owns Knowledge?
Knowledge and the Law” (Eds. Nico Stehr and Bernd Weiler), London,
Transaction Publishers, 2008, p.87 – 97 Conundrum of Creativity, compensation, conservation in India: How
can intellectual property rights help grassroots innovators and
traditional knowledge holders, published in Biodiversity and the
Law: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge
(Ed. Charles R.McManis), London, Earthscan, 2007, Chapter 22, p.327-353
Harnessing Community and Individual Knowledge in Plant Genetic
Resources Management: Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration,
Published in “Search for New Genes” (Eds. V.L.Chopra, R.P.Sharma,
S.R.Bhat and B.M.Prasanna), 2007 New Delhi, Academic Foundation Knowledge based empowerment of local bodies: Generating entrepreneurial
approach to development, presented at the National Colloquium on
Decentralisation in Rural Governance, organised by the Administrative
Reforms Commission, 1-2 March 2007, Delhi, published in The Radical
Humanist, Vol.71,No.2, May 2007, p. 15 – 17. From Sink to Source: The Honey Bee Network documents indigenous
knowledge and innovations in India, in innovations / Summer 2006,
www. mitpress.mit.edu/innovations, pp 49 – 66 Making Indian Agriculture more Knowledge Intensive and Competitive:
The Case of Intellectual Property Rights, published in Indian Agriculture
in the New Millennium: Changing Perceptions and Development Policy,
2006 (Eds. N.A.Mujumdar and Uma Kapila), p.285 - 327 With Dr R.A. Mashelkar) Women and Formal and Informal Science,
IIMA, published in History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in
Indian Civilisation (General Editor: D.P.Chattopadhyaya), 2005,
Volume IX Part 3, Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods
(ed. Bharati Ray), New Delhi, Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd.,
Chapter 10, p. 208 – 235. We can certainly do better - Post-tsunami disaster management:
An agenda for action, The Financial Express, 1st Jan 2005 (With Vikas Chandak) Agricultural Biotechnology in India: Ethics,
Business and Politics, International Journal of Biotechnology, 2005,
Vol 7 No 1/2/3, 212-225 Environmental Aspects of Social change: Agenda for statistical
research, in Sustainable Environments: Ecological, Economic, Socio-cultural
and Statistical Aspects (Eds. A.K.Ghosh, J.K.Ghosh, Barun Mukhopadhyay),
2004, ISI, Calcutta, p. 163-181. Why is Media so Apathetic? Published in VIDURA: Journal of The
Press Institute of India, New Delhi, Vol. 40, Issue No. 2 (2003),
p. 8-10 Sharing Benefits with the Conservators of Diversity” Conservation
and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity: A Source Book,
CIP-UPWARD, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines, Vol. 3, p. 608 - 613,
March 2003 Farmers as Plant Breeders: Three cases from India Conservation
and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity: A Source Book,
CIP-UPWARD, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines, Vol. 2, p. 332-336,
March 2003 (With Sanjeev Saxena, Vikas Chandak, Shrabani B.Ghosh, Riya Sinha
and Neeru Jain) Costs of Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in India,
published in “Efficient Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity:
Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies” (Ed. Detlef Virchow),
Berlin, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, p. 137 – 174, 2003. Mobilizing Grassroots’ technological Innovations and Traditional
Knowledge, values and institutions: Articulating Social and Ethical
Capital, published in the Futures Volume 35, Issue 9, November 2003,
Pages 975 – 987 (With Riya Sinha) Contested Domains, Fragmented Spaces: rights,
responsibilities and rewards for conserving biodiversity and associated
knowledge systems, in Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Managing
Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia (Eds., P.S.Ramakrishnan,
R.K.Rai, R.P.S.Katwal and S.Mehndiratta), Delhi, Oxford & IBH
Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2002, p. 161-181. (With Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya) Contours of collaboration: Coping
with disasters through effective inter-organisational networks,
talk delivered at the seminar on “Disaster Management and the Armed
Forces: A National Effort” on 11th September 2002 at the Air Force
Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi and published later by the Army
Headquarters and Institution of Engineers, New Delhi in their souvenir,
p. 61 – 69, 2002 Rights for all, “Managing Intellectual Property”, June 2002, Issue
120, p.34-37 Ethics of Extraction: Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, published
in Protecting Biological Diversity under the title Blending Universal
and Local Ethics: Accountability towards Nature, Perfect Strangers
and Society (Eds. Catherine Potvin, Margaret Kraenzel and Gilles
Seutin), London, Ithaca, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal
& Kingston, p. 129-148, 2001 Sustainability through Biodiversity: Designing Crucible of Culture,
Creativity and Conscience in “Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability
in Rural Development: A Natural Resource Perspective.” New Delhi
and Calcutta: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., 2001, pp.
179 - 226. Implications of WTO On Indian Agriculture: The Case Of Intellectual
Property Rights And Emerging Biosafety Protocol, 1999; IIMA WP No.99-10-06,
October 1999, published as a chapter in the book entitled, Implications
of WTO Agreements for India Agriculture. Samar K Datta and Satish
Y. Deodhar (Eds.). Calcutta and New Delhi, Oxford & IBH Publishing
Co.Pvt.Ltd., (2001), Chapter 10; pp.245-307 Grassroots Movements: Introductory Statement, published in Villages
in the Future: Crops, Jobs and Livelihood (Eds. Detlef Virchow and
Joachim von Braun), New York, Springer-Verlag BerlinHeidelberg,
p. 93 – 95, 2001 Grassroots Globalisation: An alternative model of globalisation,”
Gentleman, (June 2001), pp.47-53 The Honey Bee Network: Creativity, Conservation and Compensation,
“entwicklung + landlicher raum, 2, 2001, 28-30. Creativity Counts, “International Journal of Sustainable Development”,
Vol.3.No.1, 2000, pp.95-107. Creativity Counts, “International Journal of Sustainable Development,
Vol.3, No.3, 2000, 297-308 Grassroots Innovations for Survival, “LEISA India, Vol.2, No.2,
(July 2000), 20-21 Articles giving coverage of my work: Grassroots Guru, Readers Digest, November 2007 India needs a well-articulated innovation policy, but which model
should we adopt?, Business World, February 2002 Rich in ideas: Grassroots creativity, “International Herald Tribune,
October 11, 2001 Riches among the poor, “Far Eastern Economic Review”, October 26,
2000 A hive of ideas, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4603108.stm
India nurturing homegrown ideas, www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationaworld/chi-inventors_goeringaug06,1,6663333.story
Lectures delivered and presentations made at various national
and international conferences Pedagogical innovations for triggering social and economic entrepreneurship
among youth, Foundation Day lecture at NITIE, Mumbai, March 25,
2009 Managing knowledge, creating networks and triggering innovations
for sustainable agriculture, National Seminar on Agriculture Extension,
27-28 Feb 2009, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi, IIMA W.P. NO.
2009-03-05 Innovations for Reviving Small-Scale Industries, IIMA W.P. NO.
2009-03-03 Innovations, institutions and involvement: Socio ecological crisis
and insurgency in marginal environments, 2009 Rethinking the Priorities for Indian Agricultural Research, Institutions
and Policy: Learning from the Grassroots, Dr. B.P.Pal Memorial Lecture
delivered at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi on
24th May 2008, IIMA W.P. NO. 2009-03-04 Linking Vertical and Horizontal Markets for Innovations at Grassroots:
Sustainability Imperative, Keynote lecture delivered at Future of
Logistics Conference, Hanover, Germany, 26th May 2008, IIMA W.P.
NO. 2009-03-02 Grassroots to Global (G2G): Role of Grassroots Innovations in redefining
national innovation systems for inclusive development, lecture delivered
at MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard University, Cambridge,
USA on February 25, 2008 G2G - Grassroots to Global: The Knowledge Rights of Creative Communities,
keynote lecture delivered at Globalization and Justice Conference,
Seattle University, USA, February 21, 2008 What can we learn from green grassroots innovators: Blending reductionist
and holistic perspectives for sustainability science, Lecture to
be delivered at Centre for International Development, Harvard’s
Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
on February 25, 2008 (With Arul George) Building capacity at community level for protecting
the intellectual property rights in genetic resources and associated
knowledge systems and cultural expressions, presented in the roundtable
on Building Community Capacity: A Roundtable on Practical Initiatives
on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions, Traditional
Knowledge and Genetic Resources, organised by WIPO, Geneva, 10-12
December 2007, Geneva Grassroots to Global: Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations, institutions and involvement: Socio ecological crisis
and insurgency in marginal environments, presented at the seminar
on Civil Society and Democratic Space in South Asia, in Delhi on
12th January 2006 Transforming Indian villages through innovations, knowledge network
and entrepreneurship: Dealing with the bottom of the pyramid or
tip of the iceberg, Lecture delivered at the Convention on Transforming
Villages into Vibrant and Prosperous Entities-Innovative Strategies,
organized by the Lucknow Management Association, Lucknow, on 24th
October 2005. Innovations for making small enterprises competitive: Overtaking
China, lecture delivered at the Ludhiana Management Association,
organised by Department of Business Management, Punjab Agricultural
University, Ludhiana, on 19th October 2005 Dialogue on Design, Diversity and Development: Learning from Grassroots
Innovators, keynote presentation made at Philips Design Symposium
in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on 20th September 2005 Indigenous knowledge and innovations for managing resources, institutions
and technologies sustainably: A case of agriculture, medicinal plants
and biotechnology. Paper contributed for presentation at the Seminar
on IBSA Seminar on Economic Development and Social Equity, August
2-4, 2005 at Rio, Brazil Rewarding Conservation of Biological and Genetic Resources and
Associated Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity,
Published as WIPO-UNEP study on the role of intellectual property
rights in the sharing of benefits arising from the use of biological
resources and associated traditional knowledge, 2004 Technological innovations for revitalising small scale and tiny
sector: Need for a bold initiative - A note submitted to Finance
Minister for budget 2003-04 Value chain augmentation for grassroots innovations making India
innovative, note submitted to Finance Minister at the pre budget
consultation meeting, January 9, 2002 Rethinking priorities for Science and Technology policy for augmenting
grassroots innovations: A pre-budget submission to the Finance Minister,
2001 Rewarding Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity:
The Role of Intellectual Property Protection, paper presented at
a seminar at Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston, May 2000 Transforming Developmental Options for Knowledge-rich, Economically-poor
people: From Grassroots Innovations to Global Space, paper presented
at the UNESCO-ACEID Conference in Bangkok during December 12-15,
2000 Financing tiny and small sector technological innovations: A pre-budget
submission to the Finance Minster, 2000 Have papers in International journals like International Review
of Administrative Sciences, International Journal of Sustainable
Development, Agri. Systems, Capitalism, Nature and Socialism, International
Studies in Management and Organisation, Indian Jr. of Social Studies,
Indian Jr. of Public Administration, Vikalpa, Studies in History,
Biotech¬nology Law Report (USA), Eubios (Japan), Development,
Cultural Survival Quarterly, Biotechnology and Law Monitor, Diversity,
etc., on Action Research, Social Effects of Rural Projects, Designing
Resource Delivery Systems, Right To Resource, Household Economy
in Dry regions, Biodiversity Conservation, Ethics of resource extraction,
farmers' Innovations, Intellectual property rights of people etc.
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Sanjeev Saxena, Vikas Chandak, Shrabani B.Ghosh, Riya Sinha and Neeru
Jain) Costs of Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in India, published in
“Efficient Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity:
Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies” (Ed. Detlef
Virchow), Berlin, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, p. 137 – 174,
2003. Sustainability
Through Biodiversity: Designing
Crucible of Culture, Creativity and Conscience in “Criteria and
Indicators of Sustainability in Rural Development: A Natural Resource
Perspective.” New Delhi and Calcutta: Oxford & IBH Publishing
Co.Pvt.Ltd., 2001, pp. 179 - 226. Ethics
of Extraction: Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, published in
Protecting Biological Diversity under the title Blending Universal and
Local Ethics: Accountability
towards Nature, Perfect Strangers and Society (Eds. Catherine Potvin,
Margaret Kraenzel and Gilles Seutin) , London, Ithaca, McGill-Queen’s
University Press, Montreal & Kingston,
p. 129-148, 2001. Implications
of WTO On Indian Agriculture: The
Case Of Intellectual Property Rights And Emerging Biosafety Protocol,
1999; IIMA WP No.99-10-06, October 1999, published as a chapter in the
book entitled, Implications of WTO Agreements for India Agriculture. Samar K Datta and Satish Y. Deodhar (Eds.). Calcutta and New
Delhi, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., (2001), Chapter 10;
pp.245-307. Conserving
Biodiversity and Rewarding Associated Knowledge and Innovation Systems:
Honey Bee Perspective, invited paper for the First Commonwealth Science
Forum – Access, Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property Rights and
Benefit Sharing and the Commonwealth, Goa, 23-25 September 1999. Rewarding
Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity: The Role of Intellectual Property Protection, paper presented
at a seminar at Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston, May 2000. Transforming
Developmental Options for Knowledge-rich, Economically-poor people: From
Grassroots Innovations to Global Space, paper presented at the UNESCO-ACEID
Conference in Bangkok during December 12-15, 2000. Financing
tiny and small sector technological innovations:
A pre-budget submission to the Finance Minster, 2000. Rethinking
priorities for Science and Technology policy for augmenting grassroots
innovations: A pre-budget
submission to the Finance Minister,
2001. Value
chain augmentation for grassroots innovations making India innovative,
note submitted to Finance Minister at the pre budget consultation
meeting, January 9, 2002. Technological
innovations for revitalising small scale and tiny sector:
Need for a bold initiative - A note submitted to Finance Minister
for budget 2003-04. (With
Riya Sinha) Contested Domains, Fragmented Spaces: rights,
responsibilities and rewards for conserving biodiversity and associated
knowledge systems, published in Traditional Ecological Knowledge for
Managing Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia (Eds.,
P.S.Ramakrishnan, R.K.Rai, R.P.S.Katwal and S.Mehndiratta),
Delhi, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2002, p.
161-181. Grassroots
Movements: Introductory Statement, published in Villages in the Future:
Crops, Jobs and Livelihood (Eds. Detlef
Virchow and Joachim von Braun), New York, Springer-Verlag
BerlinHeidelberg, p. 93 – 95, 2001. Done
three case studies for WIPO on the role of IPRs in the sharing of
benefits arising from the use of biological resources and associated
traditional knowledge based on the data collected from Mali, Nigeria and
India in 2001. These cases have been widely circulated on CD as a
joint WIPO-UNEP pre-publication launch. Rewarding
Conservation of Biological and Genetic Resources and Associated
Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity, IIMA
W.P.No.2003-01-06, January 2003, –
This is the final chapter of the case studies on the role of
intellectual property rights in the sharing of benefits arising from the
use of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge, based
on the data collected from Mali, Nigeria and India,” brought out in CD
format by WIPO- UNEP, 2002. Have papers in International journals like International Review of Administrative Sciences, International Journal of Sustainable Development, Agri. Systems, Capitalism, Nature and Socialism, International Studies in Management and Organisation, Indian Jr. of Social Studies, Indian Jr. of Public Administration, Vikalpa, Studies in History, Biotechnology Law Report (USA), Eubios (Japan), Development, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Biotechnology and Law Monitor, Diversity, etc., on Action Research, Social Effects of Rural Projects, Designing Resource Delivery Systems, Right To Resource, Household Economy in Dry regions, Biodiversity Conservation, Ethics of resource extraction, farmers' Innovations, Intellectual property rights of people etc. |
| Workshops, Research and Consultancies : |
|
Have
been requested to carry out a performance review of Commonwealth
Knowledge Network of Commonwealth Science Council, UK. Have
organised sessions/workshops on indigenous innovation and intellectual
property rights in various national and international conferences of
natural science societies dealing with Crop Science, Agronomy, Plant
Physiology and Biochemistry, range management, soil and water
conservation, etc. Have
been invited as keynote speaker in scores of international conferences
during 1981-2002 too many to be enumerated but including IAUES
anthropological conference, rural sociology, farming systems, common
property resource management, IAAE agricultural economics,
AIPPI on IPRs, OECD on biodiversity, Range management,
ICLARM on aquatic diversity, IFAD and EU on hunger and poverty,
Universities of Arizona, Upsala, Hohenhiem, Boston, Aarhus,
Mexico, TWAS, Trieste, in
addition universities of Harvard,
Duke, Cornell, Indiana, Oxford, etc., have invited for seminars,
meetings and presentations. Participated
in the Second Global Knowledge Conference in Kulalumur (March 2000);
European Science Foundation’s Workshop on Biotechnology,
Agriculture and Environmental Policy in Rome (May 2000); Global Dialogue
on the Role of the Village in the 21st Century: Crops, Jobs and
Livelihood in Hannover, Germany (August 2000); International Conference
on Biotechnology in the Global Economy: Science and the Precautionary
Principle at Harvard University, Boston (Sep 2000);
Workshop on Democracy and Global Governance: Challenges for the XXI Century in Port Alegre, Brazil (Jan
2001); Policy Forum on Using Knowledge for Development at Wilton Park,
London (March 2001); Multi-stakeholder
Dialogue on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development in Chiang
Mai, Thailand (March 2001); Workshop on Development by Design, organised
by the Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge in Washington
(July 2001); II WIPO International Conference on Electronic
Commerce and IP in Geneva (Sep 2001); Workshop on IPR, WTO, TRIPS
Agreement and Environment,
organised by UNEP in Geneva (Dec 2001); Expert Workshop on Traditional
Knowledge organised by Commission on IPR at Commonwealth Science Council
in London (Jan 2002); Taskforce
on Technology, Innovation and Society organised by World Business
Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Feb 2002;
International Workshop on Science, Technology and Sustainability:
Harnessing Institutional Synergies in Trieste (Feb 2002); Conference on
International Patent System in Geneva
organised by WIPO (March 2002);
Workshop on S&T for Sustainable Development, organised by
Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, International
Council for Science and the Third World Academy of Sciences (May 2002). Coordinating
a large research programme (6,50,000 CAD) 1993-2003 on Indigenous
Knowledge Innovation and Network (Global) and Grassroots Incentives for
Sustainable Natural Resource Management through a collaboration between
IIMA and SRISTI on one hand and other editors of regional language
version of Honey Bee. The
phase III of this project focuses on women innovators and knowledge
network. InfoDev
Division of World Bank is supporting a project on creating electronic
knowledge network among grassroots innovators using multimedia
technologies. A multimedia database on Honey Bee and SRISTI's collection on
grassroots innovations was presented at the first Global Knowledge
Conference, Toronto, 1997. Coordinating
a project on creating a multi language electronic database on grassroots
innovations developed by Honey Bee Network and SRISTI, supported by
NISSAT, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of
India. Finished
a research project on Harnessing Wisdom for Watershed Management partly
supported by FAO, pursuing research on in situ conservation of agro
biodiversity and generating incentives for the same.
WIPO has sponsored international case studies on Role of IPRs in
Benefit Sharing to be circulated to General Assembly of WIPO.
Has been a consultant to CGIAR/World Bank, Swiss Development Co‑operation, BMZ, IADS, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council and Institute, Ford Foundation, IDRC, UNESCO, ISNAR, FAO, IFAD, National Institute of Health, USA, UNDP, WIPO, UNEP, CBD, WIPO, FTPP/FAO, OECD, UNDP, besides numerous national organisations such as NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development), voluntary organisations, Khadi and Village Industries Board, Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology (NDUAT), Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR), MOEF, co-ordinated a joint report on Reorganisation of Indian Council of Agricultural Research Headquarters (1991). Since 1993, have reduced consultancy considerably to focus all energies on local innovations. |
| Membership of Research advisory Committees and other boards: |
| Visitor’s Nominee on the Selection Committee, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas, IIT, Mumbai [nominated by Hon’ble President of India for three years from 9th June 2009]; Member of the Expert Group on Innovation for mid term appraisal of the 11th Five Year Plan [2009]; Invited to be founding member of the LAUNCH - A global initiative to identify and support the innovative work poised to contribute to a sustainable future and accelerate solutions to meet urgent challenges facing our society by NASA; Member, Jury of Asian Innovation Awards by Asian Wall Street Journal/FEER ( 2002-2008), Jury to select 12 most promising climate Friendly Innovations in Sweden by Global Focus (2007-08); Jury for Tata Innovations Award (2008); Member, Committee on Credit Flow of Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of India, Expert Committee for the schemes STARD, STAWS,YS, TSP and SCSP under the Science and Society Programme of DST, New Delhi; Member, Selection Board for Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Centenary Award for excellence in biomedical research, instituted by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 2006-2008, New Delhi; Member, National Biodiversity Authority, Chennai; Member, Board of Studies for Masters Programme in Landscape Architecture at CEPT University, Ahmedabad; Advisory Committee of World Economic Forum on Entrepreneurship Education; Thermax Innovation Council; Member, Central Advisory Committee on Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Delhi (2006-2008); Member, Section 8 (1) committee of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal; Member, Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Sciences (JMAPS) published by CIMAP, Lucknow; Member, Editorial Board of IASCP (International Association for the Study of Common Property), USA; Journal of Rural Development, National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad; Advisory Board of the newsletter, Business.2010, published by Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada; Chairperson, Committee on the formulation of Eleventh Five Year Plan Proposal in the area of Biotech-based Programmes for Societal Development; Member, Board of Directors of Dena Bank (2005-2008); Member, Board of Directors of National Research Development Corporation; Member, Advisory Committee for Recruitment and Assessment Board, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Delhi and Member Editorial Advisory Board of International Journal of Sustainable Development till 2005; Member, Advisory Board of Innovations, a quarterly journal, jointly hosted at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA; Member, Advisory Board of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE); Member, Research Council for National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi; Sub Committee on Finance and Governance of Accreditation Board of ICAR, Coastal Zone Management Authority, Gujarat, National Committee to prepare twenty year plan for Forestry, MoEF; Member, Technical Advisory Group of Media Lab, Asia; Member Expert, Research Council of National Botanical Research Institute Lucknow (2006-2007). Served on the advisory committee of an international cross country
research project of International Service for National Agricultural
Research (ISNAR), The Hague on On Farm Client Oriented Research;,
was member External Advisory Committee, Centre For Indigenous Knowl¬edge
for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa state University, USA;
was member, National Land Use and Conservation Board, and working
group on soil conservation for 7th and 9th Five Year plan, Rainfed
agriculture and watershed planning for seventh and ninth five year
plan, Sub Group on Resource Mobilisation for Indian Council of Agricultural
Research, 9th FYP; Planning Commission; was regional/ country representa¬tive
of International Association of Rural Sociology and International
Society of Advancement in Socio Economics; International Society
of Ecological Economics; life member, Gujarat Sociological associa¬tion,
Gujarat Economics Society, Indian Institute of Public Administration
Society, Member Board of Directors, International Association For
Studies of Common Property Resources; Gujarat Institute of Development
Research; and National Institute of Vocational Education, Bhopal;
Member Research Advisory Committee of Biological Sciences Division
of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, National Academy of Agricultural
Research Management, Hyderabad; National Centre for Agricultural
Policy, ICAR; Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur; Board
member VIKSAT, Ahmedabad. |