{"id":309,"date":"2019-12-15T11:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T05:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/?p=309"},"modified":"2019-12-15T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T05:49:53","slug":"15-dec-2019-my-wish-list-for-a-pune-knowledge-driven-innovation-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"(15 Dec 2019) My wish list for a Pune Knowledge-driven Innovation Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my opinion on what we need to do to build a truly world-class Knowledge-driven Innovation Cluster in Pune:<\/p>\n<p>1) Focus on a few areas <strong><em>where we can synergise Knowledge creation activity, Innovation activity and Industry activity<\/em><\/strong>. I would bet on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health: Biopharma | \u00a0Medical devices and diagnostics<\/li>\n<li>Agro: Farm Inputs &amp; Productivity | Post harvest value addition<\/li>\n<li>Energy: Clean energy | Renewable energy | Engineering for Energy Optimisation<\/li>\n<li>Computation, modeling, data analytics: Niche services and tools | Analytics, optimisation and control<\/li>\n<li>Social and rural innovation: Rural agro | animal | affordable health | assistive tech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(There will be other areas of innovation including B2B SAAS etc where Pune might do well, but I am not sure we will draw upon the city&#8217;s knowledge strengths there. Pune wishes to be in IOT\/AI\/ML etc but again I am not sure we have the new knowledge strength there.)<\/p>\n<p>2) Pune city needs to invest in the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An institute of engineering and technology to rival IIT-Bombay<\/li>\n<li>An institute of business management to rival IIM-Ahmedabad<\/li>\n<li>A teaching and research hospital to rival Tata Memorial or AIIMS-Delhi<\/li>\n<li>Attract R&amp;D centres of global majors to rival GE-JFWTC that attract high quality talent<\/li>\n<li>Attract and nurture technical consulting firms (similar to erstwhile Cambridge Consultants in UK or Arthur D Little in US) that attract high quality talent<\/li>\n<li>Attract investors and funders (in complementing domains) \u00a0set up base in Pune<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that the City can attract, provide adequate options for and retain multiple career families where multiple members of the family (especially spouses) are highly trained.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure basic infrastructure, services, supplies and environment of the city are of a high quality (&#8220;a big ask?&#8221;) even as the City grows<\/li>\n<li>A dedicated effort to strengthen Brand Pune and present its identity and potential to the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3) The following are key stone elements of the innovation ecosystem and need to be strengthened\/nurtured by the City and community:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Networking platforms for leaders like Pune International Center or MCCIA or PuneTech.com<\/li>\n<li>Innovation ecosystem builders and incubators like Venture Center<\/li>\n<li>An intellectually stimulating and vibrant environment &#8212; this has always been Pune&#8217;s great strength!!!<\/li>\n<li>Recognising and welcoming talent from all parts of the world &#8212; this also has been a strength of Pune.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my opinion on what we need to do to build a truly world-class Knowledge-driven Innovation Cluster in Pune: 1) Focus on a few areas where we can synergise Knowledge creation activity, Innovation activity and Industry activity. I would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/?p=309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-age-above-25-young-professionals","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.premnath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}