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ROAD TO AN IDEA :THE YI NATIONAL INNOVATION RUN [/b][/b]
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IDEAS TO ENTERPRISE : THE YI NATIONAL INNOVATION SUMMIT[/b][/b]
JANUARY 30, 2010 – FEBRUARY 3, 2010[/b][/b]
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About CII’s Young Indians[/b][/b]
Young Indians (Yi) is an integral part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India’s premier business association. Yi’s goal is to create a platform for young Indians to realize the dream of a developed nation. Yi has over 1200 direct members in 25 Chapters, 160 members in 3 corporate Chapters and 12,000 members in 2 Farmer Nets and 59 Student Nets. The entire membership includes young progressive Indians between the age group of 25 - 40 years. Yi’s vision: “To become the voice of young Indians globally”.
Yi works effectively for promoting leadership skills for the development of its members through learning programmes; development and engagement of students in schools and colleges through Student Nets and Farmer Nets with 12,000 young and progressive farmers. Yi has focused in areas of primary education, environment, primary healthcare and employability, contributing positively to its surrounding eco system and the nation. Yi partners with organizations including the Government, Companies, Civil society organizations. On the international arena, Yi engages with the BMW Foundation to promote the “Indo German Young Leaders Forum” for young leaders from Germany and India to come on a common platform. Young Indians have partnered with CII on the Mission on India@75: The Emerging Agenda, which reflects its aspirational role to facilitate the acceleration in India’s transformation into an economically vital, technologically innovative, socially and ethically vibrant global leader by year 2022.
Yi Next Practices[/b]
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As a movement for social development and change, the need to focus on Innovation is most critical. [/b]We believe NEXT PRACTICES is a critical focus area for Yi to engage our members and also showcase pathbreaking thought leadership.
The objective of Yi's newest focus area - Yi NEXT PRACTICES - is to identify, evangelize and celebrate game changing ideas, inventions and innovations that have the potential to serve as development catalysts for individual sectors, industries and organizations.
Yi’s Next Practices work would hence include identifying, discussing and evangelizing innovations in Yi’s key focus areas of education, healthcare, environment, and the like. Each of these would have the potential to challenge the status quo and propose a new solution to a particular issue at hand.
Some of the planned activities for the year include Blue Ocean Dialogues (Ideas and Innovation Conclaves - workshops that foster out-of-the-box thinking) with schools and colleges and also on specific issues like Climate Change, Green Tech, Green Buildings, Environment Excellence Missions & Case Book publication, Farming Next Practices forming an IndoGAP for 10 key crops, National Next Practices / Invention Contest, the India Innovation Initiative (along with CII and Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India) and the IRIS Initiative (Innovation for school students under 18 years of age - along with Intel and CII). We are also planning a Innovation Road trip to visit unknown innovators and a National Innovation Summit towards the end of the year as capstone events to summariselearnings for the year.
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India@75 :Moving from Best Practices to Next Practices[/b][/b]
‘Next Practices’ is a concept that Prof C K Prahalad provided to Yi as part of the India@75 Vision document and related concept papers. India@75 is a Vision for India after 75 years of independence, i.e. by 2022. The cornerstones of the India@75 vision document include India being a source of global innovations, dominating global trade, having a renewal in Agriculture, a revival of arts, science, sports & literature, practicing planned urbanization, having the largest pool of trained manpower, practicing inclusiveness and high moral standards.
Prof Prahalad believed that no where on earth have a billion plus people embarked on a change and development agenda like we have begun in India. Therefore, best practices are no longer suitable as benchmarks as all of them would most likely have been undertaken in radically different contexts and certainly at a much smaller scale than what we hope to undertake in India. Therefore a new wave of innovation is crucial to get things done. Hence ‘next practices’ and not just best practices must form the key agenda for discussion in the Indian context.
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Yi National Innovation Run: January 30, 2010 – February 2, 2010[/b][/b]
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As part of the process of evangelizing the spirit of innovation and inspiring youth to think big and think different, Yi has scheduled a National Innovation Run that will pass through three states that have over the years demonstrated entrepreneurship and excellence – Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
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Meet innovators and see innovations at work and celebrate the impact of these game changing ideas on the community, sector and the country at large. These innovators will include unknown, unsung heroes of India and will also visit world class organizations that are famous for their ingenuity.
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The Yi National Innovation Run will be flagged off at Mumbai on January 30, 2010. From Mumbai, it will pass through to Gujarat, then on to Madhya Pradesh and finally re-enter Maharashtra and end at Lavasa on February 2, 2010. Every day the teams will meet 3 innovators/inventors and carry out a standardized assessment of the innovation at work and its impact on the community and industry. The standardized Next Practices sandbox developed by Prof C K Prahalad will set the framework for the evaluation.
Interviews will need to be taken of the innovator and stakeholders and 5 minute videos and slideshows prepared overnight and uploaded online. Online polls will be held to select the innovators that appeal the most based on the videos, slideshows and assessment tool summaries available online for public viewing.
To move to the next location, a series of brain-teasers and challenges that test out-of-the-box thinking, speed, agility, aptitude and life skills will be carried out. This will eliminate teams and teams which emerge successful in these challenges will move to the next city for further interactions with innovators.
The online polls will close on February 2, 2010 and the best innovators along the route will be decided based on popular vote and also based on a Yi next practices jury decision based on the video, slideshows and other materials prepared during the Run.
The Run participants will have no clue as to which Innovator they will be visiting during the course of the event until they get directions and a briefing sheet. They will need to use travel time after getting the brief till they reach the innovator’s premises to research the company and the invention to be studied. They can use online tools, web-enabled cell phones, laptops and call 2 pre-designated persons for help with this pre-visit research process.
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Each team would consist of 4 persons : 2 who will physically travel into the field and 2 who will be available for online research, consultation, documentation, etc.
Each team will need to be sponsored by a corporate/Yi member/Yi member company and will be known by a unique Team name. It will consist of a working professional (aged 25 to 40) and a student (Bachelor or Masters level student) who will travel and 2 persons who will be available online at a designated e-enabled location under the supervision of the Yi event team.
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The winner of the Innovation Run will be selected based on the points gathered for the video and slideshows prepared during the event which captures the depth, breadth and width of research undertaken to capture the innovation in all its glory. Points will consider online polls which will gather popular opinion and the opinions gathered from a select Yi next practices jury.
Points will also be awarded to all participants based on the day-end tasks and challenges which will be added to the total score.
A weighted average score that appropriately considers online polls, jury opinion and day-end challenge points will decide the final winners of the Yi National Innovation Run.
Yi Innovation Summit :Lavasa, February 3, 2010[/b]
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The National Innovation Run will be immediately followed up by an Innovation summit in Lavasa, Maharashtra. The broad theme of the Summit would be “Ideas to Enterprise - Innovation for Development”.
Unique in its format, the Innovation Summit will be held in open grounds under a large tree, symbolizing the vedic tree of knowledge and wisdom. It will have panelists and audience seated in concentric circles with each having a share of voice that will form part of the deliberations. It will also involve the community and all stakeholders and will be an inclusive dialogue to capture Innovations as a catalyst for national change.
The choice of Lavasa as a location is that it is India’s newest city, a living next practice which in itself is a work-in-progress that is worthy of detailed study and evaluation.
Sessions will showcase innovative solutions that can create change in Yi’s work areas that include environment (including planned urbanisation), education (primary, tertiary and vocational), healthcare and skill building (employability). The key deliverable from the summit for Yi would be a set of actionable agendas and suggested, do-able solutions for addressing key development imperatives in each of the focus areas. These can then form part of Yi’s plans for the future.
The Innovation Summit, being the capstone Yi Next Practices event for the year, will also be the platform to give award Yi Next Practices Certifications, and release the Yi Next Practices publications for the year including the Innovation Case Book and the first edition of Yi’s Indian Good Agricultural Practices (IndoGAP) recommendations.
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It is expected that about 250 to 300 persons will attend the summit including a galaxy of speakers, government officials, CEOs of CII and Yi member companies, industry leaders, NGO workers, professionals, citizens of Lavasa and nearby cities, students and other guests.
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