Research being the pillar of a nation’s success is a simple fact that doesn’t need explanation. Starting from The Neanderthal Man who discovered fire through Industrial Revolution and German Panzers to the current Space Age and Nuclear Weapons; the nation in the forefront of the world’s research scene has been the most powerful and dominant.
India with all her potential, fails miserably in this key aspect with our children being drilled to rote learning rather than innovation through school and college education. And our champions of education, the IITs only encourage the same with the ridiculous JEE. The same kids transform into brilliant geneticists, path breaking researchers, aerodynamic engineers, doctors, etc. when they move to the US/European universities. Then is it a surprise that we fare horribly in international rankings which heavily rely on research?
We need to usher in a change. Now!
Every child or youth needs to be engaged in the process of innovation that enables them to realize their potential, the institution realizes her true potential and as a nation, we realize our true potential. Research in all its forms, path breaking, life changing, paradigm altering and even incremental research - needs to be encouraged, appreciated, nurtured and incubated.
That’s where we come in. Accendere, works with students, educational institutions and corporates across segments to create, incubate and capture intellectual Property in terms of research, projects, ideas, papers, patents, etc. We help students to tie up research with the career path, institutions leverage research in the publicity, admission academic reputation, and ranking domains and corporate capturing valuable IP into tangible assets that can be brought into the asset base and achieve their true potential in valuations.
We dream of an innovative India.
Case one:
Let’s take a case of a doomed University relegated to the bottom of the food chain by the regulators breathing down its neck threating to shut it down and declining admissions. A simple initiative takes the biggest and smartest workforce in the University (its students pursuing their Bachelors in Engineering) and engages them on small research projects on an everyday basis. Students get pumped up, labs are setup in every corridor, mini copters launched, race buggys pop up, and we end up with a great story to tell the market. The students have a good time, faculty get roped in, a good word of mouth starts spreading and before you know it admissions are back on track. Better admissions allow more investment and the inspection committee involved is forced to acknowledge the change and grant the University a Grade A putting it amongst the best in the country in a span of just two years. True Story! This is an ‘Accendere’ power story.
Case two:
Students are a curious lot. But they are clever and perceptive. When a student comes across an article about how vaccines are a taboo in several villages and people avoid them, she starts questioning why vaccination can’t be made more fundamental. Injections and oral administration is tough. But if she can genetically imbue vegetables and fruits with vaccines; voila - you eat grapes you don’t get polio, the roti protects you from malaria and the apple keeps hepatitis away. This isn’t science fiction, just a project done by curious final year students in a Private University in India. The University engages 1000 students with post docs from around the world and they produce fantastic research with papers published in Scopus indexed journals within a year.
Such a change is possible, lets create a true 360 degree, all pervasive research ambience in your institution in our country.