Encouraging grass root innovations by Mr Deepal Sooriyaarachchi

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promoting grass root innovations
Deepal Sooriyaarachchi
Chairman- Sri Lanka Inventors
Commission
Agenda
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Introduction to SLIC
What Inventors do
How can business benefit from them
How can you promote grass root innovations
Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC)
• Sri Lanka Inventors Incentive Act No 53 of 1979.
• To encourage making or creations of inventions
by Sri Lankans and provide them with Technical,
Financial and Legal Support.
• JIII- established in 1904 patron Emperor
• Honeybee network in India collects and
promotes grass root innovations
What do innovators do.
What is the problem here?
Problem-
Access to water
Solution
Community Tap
Solution
Problem-
Carrying
Q Drum
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The Key Three Steps
Observation
Technology
intervention
Core competency of inventors
Promotion
How can you benefit
• Creative Solutions to your
problems- ( web space)
• New business opportunities
How can you support
• Nurture one or two inventions a year as
incubator projects and make them commercial
• Ask your HR persons to recognize inventors
when recruiting
• Sponsor some of our initiatives to pick talent,
enhance brand image
• Offer challenges to them to solve
• Bring them in to your laborataries
prosperity through
inventions and
innovations
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