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Title: South-South Cooperation for Technology Transfer and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises: VIT Experiences


1
South-South Cooperation for Technology Transfer
and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises
VIT Experiences
  • Prof. D.P. Kothari, FNAE, FNASc
  • Vice Chancellor, VIT University, Vellore
  • Former Director (I/C), IIT DELHI
  • Former Principal, VRCE, Nagpur

2
VIT A brief history
  • Founded in 1984 as Vellore Engineering College
    (VEC), a Private college affiliated to the
    University of Madras, with three undergraduate
    programmes and an intake of 180 students
  • Blossomed into a Postgraduate institution in 1995
  • Conferred Deemed University status by Ministry of
    Human Resource Development, Government of India
    and renamed Vellore Institute of Technology in
    2001
  • Renamed as VIT University (u/s 3 of UGC Act) in
    2006

3
Accreditation
  • Accredited by the National Board of Accreditation
    (NBA) in 1998 and 1999 with highest grade (A
    Grade)
  • First educational institution in India to be
    awarded ISO 9002 Certificate by the Det Norske
    Veritas (DNV) of the Netherlands in 1999
  • Accredited by the National Assessment and
    Accreditation Council (NAAC) in 2003

4
Accreditation
  • Programmes of VIT accredited by the Institution
    of Engineers, India IEI
  • First educational institution in India accredited
    by the Institution for Engineering and Technology
    (IET) and Energy Institute (EI) both from UK in
    2005 with our degrees equivalent to theirs up to
    2010
  • Tata Consultancy Services accredited VIT as an
    A-Grade Institution

5
Recognition
  • India Today-ACNielsen-ORG-MARG Survey
  • All India 14th rank in 2007
  • All India 10th rank in 2008
  • Both in 2007 and 2008, VIT University was ranked
    first among the Private Engineering Institutions
    in the country

6
Introduction
  • UN created special unit for SSC in late 1970s
    academic research and voluntary cooperative
    efforts between developing countries to promote
    S-S trade and investment
  • Refers cooperative activities between developing
    countries
  • Developing technologies, services and trading
    relationships
  • Micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
    engine of economic growth and for promoting
    equitable development

7
Introduction
  • SSC contributes to economic advances in Africa,
    Southern Asia and South America
  • SSC lacs the overtones of cultural, political and
    economic hegemony
  • Lot of differences within the group of developing
    countries think of cooperation among the
    developing countries giving rise to the concept
    of SSC

8
SSC for Technology Transfer
  • Authors association with SAARC countries
  • Personally visited SAARC countries - development
    of local engineering colleges like BUET in Dhaka,
    Kathmandu Engineering College, Nepal and
    University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore,
    Pakistan
  • VIT University also has mutually beneficial
    working association with several academic
    institutions / universities in SAARC countries

9
SSC for Technology Transfer
  • Necessity of Technology Transfer
  • Definite goal converting the laboratory
    information into a commercial product
  • Sharing of technical information
  • SSC to address wide range of issues
  • Need for concerted action natural disasters

10
SSC for Technology Transfer
  • Role of UN
  • Promote SSC policy support and capacity
    building
  • FAO, UNIDO, UNDP and WHO proper south-south
    policies and activities

11
SSC for Technology Transfer
  • Bandung Conference in 1955 pioneering major
    south-south conference of developing countries
  • Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Group of 77
    (Doha, 2005)
  • Working Group on Technical Cooperation among
    Developing Countries (TCDC) created in 1972 by
    UN General Assembly
  • SAARC formed in 1985
  • ASEAN in 1967
  • stepping stone towards bringing nations into a
    framework of cooperation
  • Bridge the economic gap between developed and
    developing countries

12
SSC for Technology Transfer
  • VIT Universitys contribution to the SAARC
    countries
  • Creation of knowledge hubs in the form of human
    resource and opening up the
  • avenues for SSC for exchange of technology
  • Separate International Office functioning since
    2002
  • Admitted students from various countries abroad
  • MoU with SINO-INDIA Education and Technology
    Alliance
  • Around 400 Chinese students to take education in
    disciplines like computer and management

13
SSC for Technology Transfer
  • Role of the Centre for Disaster Mitigation
    Management (CDMM)
  • Established on 9th January 2006 by VIT
    University
  • Quarterly e-Newsletter on Natural Disaster
    Development the first of its kind in Asia,
  • with an international circulation of 6000,
    published under the aegis of Centre for Non-
  • Aligned and other Developing Countries
  • First Institution in India to produce
    Self-Education CD-ROMS on Earthquakes,
  • Cyclones, Landslides and Lightning
  • Major contribution to Planning Commission in
    drafting of Chapter on Disaster
  • Management for the XI Five Year Plan
  • Major contribution to NDMA Team for Drafting of
    National Guidelines
  • on Earthquakes and Landslides
  • CDMM is the only Centre in India to have so far
    contributed papers to every issue of
  • National Journal on Disasters and Development

14
SSC for Technology Transfer
  • CDMM participated in International Roundtable
    meeting on Lighting Protection
  • for Non-Aligned Nations in Sri Lanka in 2007
    SSC information exchange discussed
  • CDMM has authored Peer-Reviewed Book on
    Retrofitting of Structure-
  • Foundation Systems
  • CDMM is among the ten institutions in India to
    be awarded a project by
  • Prevention Consortium of Geneva
  • conducted Roundtable meeting on landslides in
    2006 to discuss recurrent
  • problems on landslides in SAARC countries
    Vellore Declaration had been
  • brought out
  • conducted International Roundtable meeting in
    2007 for Non-Aligned and other
  • developing countries to discuss about the
    natural disasters among these countries
  • Vellore Resolution had been brought out and
    signed by the delegates of the
  • member countries

15
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • Prominent approach to sustainable development
  • Depending on imported technical skills
  • Dependency reduction using Universities /
    Institutions facilities
  • Awareness creation using institutional networks
  • IIT Delhi
  • BITS, Pilani
  • VNIT, Nagpur
  • NIT Kurukshetra
  • VIT University

16
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • Significance of SMEs contribution
  • Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs)
  • 90 of total enterprises in most of the
    economies
  • generating the highest rates of employment
    growth
  • major share of industrial production and
    exports
  • 33 of the total export of the country and 39
    of the manufacturing output
  • MSE sector employs 31 million persons spread
    over 12.8 million enterprises
  • MSE sector almost 4 times higher than the large
    enterprises

17
Establishing and Managing Entrepreneurship Clubs
(E-Clubs) in Southern India
  • Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium
    Enterprises (MSME), Government of
  • India sanctioned Rs. 2.5 crores for
    establishing this E-Clubs.
  • VIT University has become the first University
    in Southern India to undertake
  • this project
  • MSME Development Institute, Chennai and VIT
    signed MoU on July 2007
  • MSME and VIT University establishing around
    200 E-Clubs in all the five
  • Southern States of India
  • First of such clubs are already working at
    Vellore and Coimbatore

18
Establishing and Managing Entrepreneurship Clubs
(E-Clubs) in Southern India
  • Expected outcomes
  • Provide solutions for common problems
  • Enhancing the productivity and competitiveness
    of entrepreneurs
  • Capacity building of micro and small
    enterprises
  • Facilitate substantial economic of scale
  • Provide management training
  • Provide incubator services
  • Representation to industry associations / other
    agencies

19
Support to SMEs through Business Incubation at
VIT Technology Business Incubator (VIT-TBI)
  • Pre-incubation Services
  • Established three product innovation centre
    with the support from Department
  • of Science Technology (DST), Government of
    India
  • Grant from the infoDev (the World Bank Group)
    of USD 0.15 million
  • Entrepreneurs access to the VIT University
    facilities through VIT-TBI
  • Midcourse correction support is available

20
Support to SMEs through Business Incubation at
VIT Technology Business Incubator (VIT-TBI)
  • VIT-TBI provided structured training named
    Accelerated Business Coaching
  • Program (www.knowledgebiz.org)
  • Close working relationship with over 60
    corporate and industry clients
  • Conduced Capacity Building Program for Business
    Incubation Managers under
  • SSC in May 2007. Over 19 participants from
    China, Mauritius, Mozambique,
  • Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam
    attended

21
Failure Issues
  • Common causes of SMEs Failures
  • Lack of will and perseverance on the part of
    the entrepreneurs
  • Peer and family pressure
  • Fear of failure
  • Lack of a failure tolerant eco-system

22
The Challenges in Technology Transfer in Medium
and Small Scale Industries
  • Conversion of kerosene stove to increase
    efficiency
  • Conversion of motorcycle to tilling machine to
    replace tractor
  • Low-cost drip irrigation system
  • A manual milking device inventor J.S. Milker
  • Interacting with academic institutions for
    developing new process
  • BITS, Pilani Practical School model extremely
    successful

23
Failures in Technology Transfer in Medium and
Small Scale Industries
  • Possible reasons of Failures
  • Lack of funds to establish sophisticated and
    advanced facilities for
  • the technology development and transfer
  • Interdisciplinary work. Number of experts
    available are fewer
  • which are required to scale-up the process
  • Lack of funds and interest by the funding
    agency result in half
  • backed process know-how causing failure
  • Lack of a failure tolerant eco-system

24
Failures in Technology Transfer in Medium and
Small Scale Industries
  • Suggestions
  • Adequate funding should be provided
  • Joint work, better cooperation and coordination
    among different
  • interest groups such as academic institutions,
    research departments
  • and entrepreneurs

25
Conclusions
  • This paper has dealt with South-South
    Cooperation for
  • Technology Transfer and also discussed at
    length the
  • experience obtained dealing with SMEs at VIT
    University,
  • Vellore
  • Along with numerous success stories, some
    failures are also
  • discussed along with the reasons and means to
    avoid them
  • in future
  • The interest groups in dealing with the topics
    of technology
  • transfer small and medium enterprises will be
    immensely
  • benefitted by the VIT experience

26
  • Besides these academic activities involving
    exchange of students and faculty from various
    universities abroad, IR is actively involved in
    assisting in the International accreditation of
    the VIT university.
  • It helped earlier in achieving the IET EI
    accreditation from UK and now currently helping
    in securing the American Accreditations ABET and
    AACSB for our Engineering and Management
    programmes.
  • It is also assisting in monitoring the Asia-Link
    programme on Energy and Environment with UAS
    Aachen and Masters programme in Automobile
    Engineering with UAS Esslingen and ARAI, Pune.

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