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The members of our Technology Innovation Center identify/ observe problems, develop concept story boards, rapid prototypes, prepare feasibility reports and conduct initial market studies for understanding the business viability of an idea. The primary objective of Uniken’s Innovation Center is to ensure a healthy pipeline of marketable innovations. We work closely with the academia and business partners to exchange ideas and are responsible for showcasing and promoting the research in various platforms and forums. We firmly believe in open and collaborative innovation and work with various external innovators as well.
At UNIKEN we follow a simple strategy – build an ecosystem around the innovator, give him/her enough mind-space to work on the ideas, and work on multiple marketable concepts, so that a few of them may be commercialized.
We continuously strive to identify and solve problems that have a larger impact, and significant benefits to society. We not only reward successes but also failures, since we firmly believe that a sincere, creative attempt is worth rewarding irrespective of its end result. Besides, it is failures that impart the biggest learnings and teach us what NOT to do.
We strongly believe in collective innovation, where every member of the Innovation Center assists other innovators and works on their ideas/ solutions in addition to their own. Such collaboration helps in removing the redundancies, and creates a collective ownership culture – a critical component for any R&D organization. |
“All humans have the innate ability to innovate. However, first our education system and then the society, systematically destroys this ability over time. Those who survive are categorized as 'innovators', the struggle for whom continues to be to first unlearn most of what they have learned over the years, and look for an environment where their identity and ideas are protected and nurtured. 'Innovation’ has come to be considered fashionable today, but one does not need large (so-called) Research Centers to be truly innovative. One simply needs to have a problem solving attitude to start innovating. And the society at large should nurture and promote the culture of solving fundamental problems that impact human lives, and generate opportunities and wealth for those who are not endowed with the critical survival skills.”
- Sanjay Deshpande, Chief Innovation Officer |
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Today’s computing environment cannot differentiate between the executable binaries that are authorized to run on the computer and those that are not (malicious). Can we build a computing framework that (just like the human body) will detect foreign executables (unauthorized binary codes) and eliminate them? Why don’t we develop a unified communicating peer to peer technology/ application that can integrate the browsers, emails, chat, voice, etc. without the need for any central server, using a distributed computing/peer-to-peer information model? Home appliances today consume a lot of energy due to their sheer size and leave a huge carbon foot-print. Can we miniaturize these appliances (e.g. micro-air-conditioners, micro-refrigerators, micro-fans, etc.) such that instead of using one single large appliance, we create numerous small appliances which provide the same result (say in a grid layout)? Can our idle-time during travel be effectively used to generate power through effective use of human energy? For example, can aircrafts have paddle-powered seats that can be used by flyers to power their laptops, electronic systems or the in-flight entertainment system? Software applications are increasingly using more and more memory to deliver rich features. Most memory available today is linear in nature – residing on the same host as that of the application. Can we instead create a distributed memory application, by using the memory available across various devices/ computers that can participate in the computing environment?
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