Inventing India - Second Factory of the World
Inventing
India
- Second Factory of the World (C)
Ravinder Singh*, May01, 2012
When I visited USA in 1986 – India’s
first $Billionaire Dr. Sirjang Lal Tandon’s Tandon Corporaton Inc was undergoing Crisis when IBM stopped buying Floppy
Drives from his company and Japanese Companies replaced Tandon
Corporation Inc. Founded in 1975 like
Microsoft but its rise was very steep, in 1982 was supplying hardware to
Computer Manufacturers World Wide and later in 1987 developed ‘Hard
Drive’ also in spite of troubles. This
is decades before Infosys or Satyam and other Software Companies were founded. Similarly
Sabir Bhatia pioneered ‘Free
e.Mail Services - Hotmail’ that alone
are worth $Trillions. But India didn’t
support them.
Most Shocking: - India doesn’t have a ‘Hard Drive Unit’ even today and
over 95% of computer hardware is imported when India potentially had the
Resources and Opportunities to be world leaders in $Multi Trillion ICT
industries and other sectors also. Tandon
Corporations Floppy
Drive technical specifications are
in above pdf.
India Could Have Been Factory of
The World Ahead of China??
1. India threw out IBM and Coca Cola in 1977-78 adopted anti US Policies.
2. India promoted
‘Under Wear Technologies’ – This
is the term I coined as a rejoinder to Arun Shourie at IITD where he termed IITians as ‘Second Grade’
and told him in 6 yrs NDA government provided $150b subsidies for ‘Under Wear Technologies’ to mean Outdated
& Bogus technologies like Urine
Cola and didn’t protect Inventions of
Indian Engineers. Last year India
spent $100b on Under
Wear Technologies – practically nothing to Indian Inventors.
3. India
didn’t protect Inventions of Indians and slowed down ‘Patent Office’ during NDA
that patents were granted in 10 years. An inventor Mr. Mann regularly
complained at FICCI that his invention was granted patent after 10 years and
just signing of Letter of Patent took a year.
4. But most important lesson in above is that a Mechanical Engineer was
leading the World in ICT sector in Computer Hardware 1980 without GOI support that
wastes over $100b on Under Wear Technologies every year.
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India need to
promote few thousand INVENTORS WITH GLOBAL VISION to lead the world – there are
Millions Qualified to support them.
5. Both Bill Gates and SL Tandon started from a garage only difference
was Bill Gates had IPR protected – Tandon not – IMPORTANCE OF IPR.
6. Promotion of TRADERS to run
our Industries had let us down everywhere, every time they expand they IMPORT
new technology, Hardware & machines and have very low VALUE ADDITIONS – in
spite of spending $10b - many time over, yet in 12 years RIL couldn’t
efficiently develop Oil & Gas discoveries (made by foreign operators)
delays and bad operation cost India $500b production loss and $2T Well Failure respectively.
EVERY INDIAN COMPANY MUST HAVE R&D CAPABILITY.
Inventing India Can Be
Second (Clean) Factory of the World
No country shall catch up
with China in Manufacturing now
– India can give it
competition with US, EU and Japan
collaboration and investments. India
has rapidly growing large market matching China in numbers and larger young
work force. India
shall be much more CLEAN with
High-Tech manufacture, Software and Global Services, Nuclear, Hydro and
Renewable Energy, Green Buildings Overtaking Fossil Fuel burning Power
generation.
World is looking at India to
Open Up and create ‘Manufacturing Friendly’ industrial environment and Indians are investing
madly in ‘Graduating Close to A Million Engineers to International Syllabus a
year ready to serve Global Market’. But India is rated
among worst ‘Investor Friendly Destination.’
Worst India has not improved its ‘Patent
Office’ to protect all Inventions of
Tens of Millions of Indian Engineers, Scientists and SMEs. Indian Inventors
need ‘Utility Model Patent Urgently’
because Indians have to ‘Learn the Patenting Process’ – even Sam Pitroda files Bogus Patents – filed 2346 Claims but retained only 24 to get US Patent
(20070198432).
Some dubious and bogus
inventors had trivialized ‘Inventing as Jugad’
not appreciating all ‘Minor Ideas are FOUNDATION
of All Great Inventions.’ Floppy Drive progressed to Blue Ray to Micro
Storage Devices and Terabit Drives, small processor in a calculator to powerful
desktops, from inefficient Carbon Filament Lamps to LED Lights and from Radio
Phones to 4G Mobiles and from small Rockets in world war to Giant Rockets for
Exploration of the Universe.
A CSIR official close to ‘Brahamchari’ told me on IPR Day ‘We can
also say your inventions are BOGUS’ – my immediate response was – 1. CSIR in 60 years had not created a
single globally recognized invention in spite of $1billion annual budget and
$Billions worth equipments and facilities. 2. CSIR filed bogus Patents because World Wide ‘Products Are Patented’
but CSIR filed process patents that
are useless 3. It didn’t let Indian Scientists and Engineers use ‘CSIR Public Facilities.’ 4. CSIR and
Sam Pitroda don’t know how to file ‘Patents’ and 5. I represented India
at Expo’85 WIPO Exhibition – CSIR
didn’t.
Let me also clarify right
from my first invention – I used to ‘Carryout Extensive Study’ of all the relevant knowledge in books borrowed from
British Council Library/US Library, tracked Patent Gazette regularly. When I was not satisfied with the
drafting of patents I complained this to ‘Additional Controller of Patents and
asked him to recommend best Patent Attorney’ and Switched to the best even
though my expenses were up 200%. I never wanted ‘Weak and Useless Patents’ like CSIR
or Sam Pitroda.
Way back in 1975-78 I spent 50% of Inventing Time on ‘Maximizing Patent
Protection and Concealing Commercial Secrets.’
It is also important that
when I visited USA with $400
Allowance to explore the market – I found I was directly ‘Competing
with GE, Sears, Westinghouse, Black&Decker, Panasonic, Bosch, Siemens,
Maytag, Whirlpool and now LG, Samsung etc. who all held PATENTS for their
Inventions.’
Innovative Projects – Most Exclusive
‘Innovative Projects’ is my
most exclusive SERVICE – since I deeply understand technologies – I also
understand how to Effectively and Productively Deploy Them in
Projects – Extending ‘Inventing Skills Thousand Fold.’ I even offer
Technologies to Bill Gates.
1990 at a CIBC meet at Taj
Hotel, New Delhi
I observed as WIPO Awarded Inventor that –
India should target serving 98% global market outside India
Today due to negative
politics we are back to 1990 level of 2% of World GDP with the latest TOI
report that India is out of $T Market Cap club today – China has maintained its
growth trajectory. China
monthly exports averaging $170b last six months points to over $2T exports
level 2011 mainly manufactured goods. China would exceed $400T to $500T Cumulative Industrial Production from 2010 to 2050. India’s loss
could be at least $200trillion.
REMEDY: -
1. Introduce Fast Utility Model
Patents and fast grant of regular patents, stop pre-grant objections by NGOs.
2. At Least of 50% Tax
Concessions or $50b to ‘Inventing & R&D Based Companies.’ No Tax
Concession for companies spending less than 10% on Salary and Allowances.
3. RBI controlled banks to
Introduce ‘Special Branches With Engineers as Managers for Funding Tech and
R&D Based Companies.’ -
4. Fast Track ‘FDI’ in all
Manufacturing Units including Retail Sector that has high Exports Sourced from India.
5. All government projects should
invite bids for ‘Technically Most Sound & Economical Projects’ than
companies bid for Quantities and Items. For example – Companies are to bid for
constructing Lame Duck dams, Companies to bid for ‘Best Dam Projects at The
Site Instead.’
6. Companies to have ‘Sector Wise
Associations to Promote Innovations, Implement Global Quality Standards and
develop Global Outlook.’
*Ravinder Singh
Inventor & Consultant
INNOVATIVE
TECHNONLOGIES AND PROJECTS
Y-77, Hauz Khas, New
Delhi-110016, India.
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