Dr Ashutosh Sharma, Institute Chair Professor & INAE Visvesvarya Chair Professor &
Coordinator, DST Unit on Nanoscience & Center for Environmental Science and Engineering IIT, Kanpur underlined the need to create knowledge that is relevant for different sections of our society. “We must have a clear picture about what knowledge we are producing, the relevance of that knowledge, where the creators and takers of that knowledge would come from, the efforts to be made so that this knowledge is consumed and the way through which it will reach the society to empower it.”
He further stressed on the need of sustainable development of knowledge ecosystem. “The knowledge ecosystem consists of two parts: invention or knowledge creation and innovation or transforming knowledge into new socio-economic opportunities. For a sustainable knowledge ecosystem it is required these two components flow together creating more master trainers, advancing science & technology capacity of communities to make the society more self-reliant.” he pointed out.
Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh, Director, IIM, Tiruchirappalli emphasized finding the teachers around us and within our inner selves to guide us in making the right decisions. He highlighted the four essential requirements of Speed, ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance), Ethics, and challenging the status quo in a corporate environment. He emphasized the need for failure management, teamwork, taking feedback, the need for people skills, and being a leader in India.
“Innovation management is extremely important not only for an organization but also for every nation. Countries like Japan, Singapore have set themselves apart only because of quality innovation management,” opined Dr. Mukund Vyas, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur.
Prof B S Murty, Director, IIT, Hyderabad put forward the need for bringing multidisciplinarity into the engineering course framework. According to him, the cross-pollination of ideas across the disciplines of technology, medicine, and environmental management is the ideal way to encourage inclusive development in society.
Prof. Rajeev Ahuja, Director, IIT, Ropar stressed that the international scientific community works on the model of ‘innovation and collaboration’ which Indian Scientists should also adopt to conduct path-breaking research. He emphasized on the development of low-cost and research-based indigenous solutions in science and technology to solve various grassroot problems for making our country Self-Reliant.
“We need to shift the model of education now and not the mode”, opined Prof. Mahadeo Jaiswal, Director, IIM, Sambalpur. “At Celebal Technologies, we are pioneers in the SAP Extend and Innovate space where we upgrade ERP esteem with Modern Cloud Innovation, for example, Enterprise Bots, Intuitive Apps, and Analytics arrangements by utilizing local cloud abilities of Microsoft Azure. We are keen to work with the higher education sector.” Informed Piyush Gupta, Global Head, ERP Practice, Celbaltech, a Microsoft partner.
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