Technical institutes in India churn out around six lakh students every year but none of their innovative projects are considered worthy of patent. Projects like the ‘black box’ system installed in cars in U.S. and UK to detect a genuine accident is also done by a group of students from Latur-based Women Polytechnic Institute in Maharashtra but was not recognized, reports Times of India.

“Did these Latur students not deserve recognition for their idea? This project was not considered worthy enough for an auto show here,” said Anil Gupta, IIM-A professor and founder of National Innovation Foundation (NIF) and Sristi.

Technical member of intellectual property appellate board (IPAB) S Chandrashekhar, added, “We have managed to upload almost two lakh innovations on our website for access for the public. Today one of our prime concerns is the process of ‘evergreening’ where major pharmaceutical companies by making minor changes in their present products apply for patents.”

To trigger innovation spirit of students in India, SiliconIndia has launched All India Engineering Project Innovation Contest (AIEPIC, pronounced as eye-pic) which aims to identify, promote and reward outstanding engineering talent across India. 30 thousand students have already registered for AIEPIC. This contest is expected to bring together more than six lakh students from 3000+ colleges across India to showcase their projects. Next week onwards we will bring you one innovative project every day as we start a new series to recognize various innovation project done by Indian students.

You can check more information about this unique platform at http://www.siliconindia.com/aiepic/   Read more ……

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TATA-Nano Car | Image Source : Theautochannel.com

The Nano is one of the most talked about cars in the automotive universe. You may recall stories over the last couple years about this Indian company building the cheapest real car in the world to sell for $2,500 – the same Indian company, by the way, that bought Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.

The story goes that the fourth generation leader of the Tata Group, Mr. Ratan Tata, was appalled at seeing masses of Indians packing onto motorcycles and scooters and wildly dashing through traffic risking life and limb – Mom, Dad and kids all teetering on old two-wheelers. He decided there must be a way to make a low-cost, all-weather conveyance – not even necessarily a car – that the average Indian could afford and one that would mitigate the risks of the every-man-for-himself driving environment. So he issued the challenge to his people to build such a conveyance, keeping the price to an arbitrary $2,500.

Indian buyers get a 4-passenger (5 if you squeeze three small people in the back) little humpy 4-door, steel-bodied sedan with a tiny rear-mounted, 2-cylinder, 27-horsepower engine and 4-speed manual transmission managing to get 50-mpg. After all, what more do you really need when you’re replacing a motor scooter?

The Nano looks like what we think of as a “city car.” Little 12-inch wheels are pushed out to the corners and spread wide for good balance. Interestingly, the front and rear tires are a little different in size, perhaps to accommodate the heavier rear where the drive train resides. Side impact beams are integrated into the think doors. Read more ……

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The story goes that the fourth generation leader of the Tata Group, Mr. Ratan Tata, was appalled at seeing masses of Indians packing onto motorcycles and scooters

and wildly dashing through traffic risking life and limb – Mom, Dad and kids all teetering on old two-wheelers. He decided there must be a way to make a low-cost, all-weather conveyance – not even necessarily a car – that the average Indian could afford and one that would mitigate the risks of the every-man-for-himself driving environment. So he issued the challenge to his people to build such a conveyance, keeping the price to an arbitrary $2,500.