Grassroots Innovations to Techno-Entrepreneurship through GIAN – Technology Business Incubator in India: A Case Study of Nature Technocrats

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is the solution to solve a problem of unemployment in any economy. Normally, we think of Technology innovations, we think of Engineers from top Technology Institutions. But innovations may also come from Grassroots people. This paper gives the Case study of Nature Technocrats – small business firm of Arvindbhai who has been supported by GIAN (Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network), Technology Business Incubator for Grassroots Innovations in India. In India, there are many Technology Business Incubation centers but approach of GIAN is unique as it supports Grassroots innovators. This paper has come out of a larger study with Research design: Multiple Embedded Descriptive Case Study. The process of GIAN with unique mechanism of commercializing the Grassroots innovations is described. The problems in this area are also described. This case study may inspire other agencies in India or other countries too for working in the area of Grassroots innovations to Techno-entrepreneurship. Keywords: Grassroots innovations; Technology innovations; Techno-Entrepreneurship; GIAN; Technology Transfer.

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“…The secondary data uses the information, namely (1) Kesehatan, 1990). (5) The government policy to campaign the National Healthy with Jamu Movement. The information is used as a basis to create a quality management instrument which will be expounded in the form of questionnaire.…”

“…The information is used as a basis to create a quality management instrument which will be expounded in the form of questionnaire. To test the instrument, jamu sellers are asked to fill the questionnaire with consecutive choices from never (1) to always (5).…”

“…Therefore, the commercial activities of jamu peddlers are categorized as the grassroots enterprises. The innovation is necessary to increase the bargaining power of the communities similar to the implementation of technological innovation in India (Bulsara, Gandhi and Porey, 2013), the Indian people (Pansera and Sarkar, 2016), or using the gender empowerment and equality approach in rural India (Torri and Martinez, 2011).…”

New and Nascent Enterprises: Analysis of Incubation Support in India

“…Although there has been recent research on VCPE investments (e.g., Thillairajan [2010]; Thillairajan and Deshmukh [2011]; and Thillairajan and Kamat [2012]), research on incubation support has been limited. Previous work on incubation support and funding in India has largely been descriptive-either tracing the historical evolution of the incubators (e.g., Santoshkumar and Vinay [2011]), providing a comparative analysis of incubators in other countries (e.g., Manimala and Vijay [2012]), or providing a comparative analysis of different models of incubators with other segments of VCPE (Bulsara et al [2009]; Sahay [2008]). …”

Commercialising Technical Innovation: Role of Business Incubators in Kerala

“…This article discusses the institutional history of these technology parks in India. Bulsara et al [14] emphasize support activities to convert Techno-innovation to Techno Entrepreneurship by keeping main focus on Technology Business Incubation approach in India. A conceptual model to establish relationship between Techno Innovation and Techno Entrepreneurship is developed.…”