How to Make Innovation Processes Successful?

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How to Make Innovation Processes Successful?
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Dr. Md. Saidur Rahman Professor and Head

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Bangladesh University of Engineering and
  Technology
• Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.

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Outline

• What are Innovation Processes?
• Innovation Processes in Islamic Countries
• Proposed Capacity Model
• Research Experience in Japan
• Innovation Processes in Bangladesh
• Summary and Conclusion

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Innovation
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Innovation
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Innovation
Invention


Application area
Successful Implementation
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Outline

• What are Innovation Processes?
• Innovation Processes in Islamic Countries
• Proposed Capacity Model
• Research Experience in Japan
• Innovation Processes in Bangladesh
• Summary and Conclusion

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Innovation in Islamic Countries

• 20-25 of the worlds population are muslim
• 30-40 countries in the world are populous muslim
  countries
• Very low intellectual productivity
• Lagging behind in innovation process
• Why

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Innovation in Islamic Countries

• Importing the technologies from developed
  countries and using those technologies.
• No significant RD activities for inventing own
  technology.
• Science, Technology and Innovation A. Watkins,
  M. Ehst, The world Bank, 2008

Mysteriously, even World Bank does not
encourage RD for new technology in Developing
countries
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Innovation in Islamic Countries
If we do not develop our own RD

• Islamic countries will always be at the consumers
  end and thus Islamic countries will become a
  market for the technological product of the
  industrial countries. Islamic countries will
  always lag behind in terms of economy and
  technology.

We should develop our technical skills and build
our own RD so that we can produce technological
products by ourselves.
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Outline

• What are Innovation Processes?
• Innovation Processes in Islamic Countries
• Proposed Capacity Model
• Research Experience in Japan
• Innovation Processes in Bangladesh
• Summary and Conclusion

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Proposed Capacity Model
Our model works on two directions
Capacity Building
Research Development
Dissemination Utilization
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Capacity Model
Socio-economic Development
Global RD
Dissemination Utilization
Local RD
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Research and Development
RD should be conducted in two directions
RD includes but not limited to
Dimensions are
Establishment of research centers
To acquire and use existing knowledge
Formation of multidisciplinary research groups
To produce and use new knowledge
Monitoring body proper supervision
Collaboration between experts end users
Organize workshops, conference, etc regularly
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Dissemination Utilization
Proposed directions to spread new technologies
RD or technology access center, whatever it
might be, it will be of no value unless and until
people are accessing these to enjoy the benefit
we must establish technology access centers
throughout the country to disseminate the
research findings, so that the end users can
avail new technologies from the nearby access
center
Government along with NGOs should conduct a
country wide campaign to popularize new
technologies
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Outline

• What are Innovation Processes?
• Innovation Processes in Islamic Countries
• Proposed Capacity Model
• Research Experience in Japan
• Innovation Processes in Bangladesh
• Summary and Conclusion

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Nobel Laureates of Japan
2008
Physics
Yoichiro Numbu
Makoto Kobayashi
Toshihide Maskawa
Chemistry
Osamu Shimomura
Eight Nobel Laureates In new century
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Research Units in Japanese Universities

• There are well-planned and systematic research
  units (Laboratories) in Japanese Universities.
• Each Unit Consists of
• one professor,
• one or two associate professors,
• two to four research associates and
• around 20 senior undergraduate
• and graduate students.

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Research Units in Japanese Universities

• Regular weekly seminars and discussions on
  research problems in the research units.
• Every activity is laboratory based.
• Senior students supervise research of junior
  students.

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Japanese Policy for Research Success

• Population of age group 20-35 are encouraged to
  do innovative research.
• Foreign research workforce of age group 20-35 are
  invited to Japan by various lucrative programs
  like Scholarships, COE and JSPS programmes to
  work under senior Japanese professors.
• Reputed foreign researchers are invited for
  encouraging and supervising junior Japanese
  researchers by JSPS programs.

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Academia-Industry Collaboration in Japan

• Surplus funds from the industry to universities
  for doing research even merely doing theoretical
  research.
• Many universities have developed industry
  creation hatcheries where research on innovation
  of new industrial products, training of manpower
  are done jointly by industry and university
  people.

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Outline

• What are Innovation Processes?
• Innovation Processes in Islamic Countries
• Proposed Capacity Model
• Research Experience in Japan
• Innovation Processes in Bangladesh
• Summary and Conclusion

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Innovation Processes in Bangladesh

• Grameen Bank an example of successful
  innovation in Bangladesh.
• The Grameen Bank Project came into operation with
  the following objectives
• extend banking facilities to poor men and women
• eliminate the exploitation of the poor by money
  lenders
• create opportunities for self-employment for the
  vast multitude of unemployed people in rural
  Bangladesh
• bring the disadvantaged, mostly the women from
  the poorest households, within the fold of an
  organizational format which they can understand
  and manage by themselves
• The bank and Dr. Md. Yunus, the founder were
  jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their
  efforts to create economic and social
  development in 2006.

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Innovation Processes in Bangladesh

• Encouraging young generation in productive works
  by creating festive competitive environment might
  be an ingredient for successful innovative
  process.

Programming Contests
Math Olympiad
Informatics Olympiad
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Comparison Of ACM ICPC World Final Ranks
Year BUET IIT MIT Stanford
1998 24 X 5 24
1999 HM X X HM
2000 11 HM 15 15
2001 29 29 7 14
2002 HM HM 2 5
2003 HM 43 1 X
2004 27 HM 5 13
2005 29 29 29 X
2006 39 HM 8 X
2007 HM 44 4 26
HMHonourable MentionX Not in Ranklist
BUET outperformed IIT in most world finals In
2000, BUET outperformed MIT, Stanford and IIT
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BUET in ACM ICPC World Finals 2009

• Team Members
• Md. Mahbubul Hasan
• Shahriar Rouf
• Sabbir Yousuf Sunny
• Dr. M. Kaykobad (Coach)

3 teams from Bangladesh has qualified for the
world finals whereas from India only 2 teams have
qualified
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Graph Drawing Research Group

• Our aim is to develop and deploy graph drawing
  algorithms for the purpose of information
  visualization.

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Graphs and Graph Drawings
A diagram of a computer network
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Objectives of Graph Drawings
Nice drawing
structure of the graph is difficult to understand
structure of the graph is easy to understand
To obtain a nice representation of a graph so
that the structure of the graph is easily
understandable.
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Objectives of Graph Drawings
Diagram of an electronic circuit
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Wire crossings
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not suitable for single layered PCB
suitable for single layered PCB
The drawing should satisfy some criterion arising
from the application point of view.
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VLSI Floorplanning
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VLSI floorplan
Interconnection graph
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VLSI Floorplanning
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VLSI Floorplanning
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VLSI Floorplanning
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VLSI Floorplanning
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VLSI Floorplanning
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Rectangular drawing
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VLSI floorplan
Interconnection graph
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UML Diagram
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Project and Process Management
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Representation of Data Structure
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Chemical and Organic Structure
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Large Graphs
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Network Layout
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Other Important Applications
Bioinformatics
VLSI Layout
Software Engineering
Architectural Floorplanning
Social Network Analysis
Medical Science
Civil Engineering
Cartography
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Contribution of the Research Group
Degree Awarded
1 Ph.D.
12 M.Sc. Engg.
27 B.Sc. Engg.
Publications
3 Books
Several Journal and Conference Papers
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Outline

• What are Innovation Processes?
• Innovation Processes in Islamic Countries
• Proposed Capacity Model
• Research Experience in Japan
• Innovation Processes in Bangladesh
• Summary and Conclusion

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Summary and Conclusion

• Followings are some recommendations for making
  innovation processes successful.
• Study and analyze the local needs and problems.
• Give strength on research and development.
• Establish effective research units in
  universities of Islamic countries and create
  Center of Excellence as an umbrella body to
  monitor the activities of research units.
• Establish strong industry-academia relationship
  and motivate industries to provide financial
  assistance for supporting research projects.
• Create facilities to encourage and motivate young
  generation for doing research.

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Summary and Conclusion

• Followings are some recommendations for making
  innovation processes successful.
• Invite prominent Muslim researchers working in
  the developed countries to work in their own
  countries. (Note that Korea and China have
  already started this strategy. )
• Establish technology access centers throughout
  the cuntry to disseminate the research findings,
  so that the end users can avail new technologies
  from the nearby assess centers.
• Conduct a country wide campaign to popularize new
  technologies.
• Three days notice is not enough to prepare an
  effective prescription for successful innovative
  processes !!!

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Acknowledgements

• Muhammad Abdullah Adnan
• Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid
• Muhammad Jawaherul Alam

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• Thank You!