Technical Education Interventions for

Make in India and Digital India

Initiatives
Some thoughts
Prof. Vedavyas MG
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Management
PES University

Technology leads to Wealth

creation

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Example
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Productivity Tools over centuries

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Next great productivity

tool?
INTERNET OF THINGS

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Imperatives based on
history
Technical education (imparted the right
way) is key to innovation and
development
Innovation should result in value-added
exports and not resources exports
Both formal and informal education
help in innovation
Exposure to problems is critical
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DIGITAL INDIA
National connectivity, Access, Empowerment

Multifold increase in market size, Level playing field

(opportunities),
Huge talent pool availability, Reduction in migration
Technical education penetration, Connected universities,
Education delivery at a distance, Virtual universities with wide
geographic coverage
Awareness of local problems, large data analytics, solution scaling

Global access, Local jobs, Local prosperity

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MAKE IN INDIA, MAKE

FOR INDIA
Mega manufacturing hubs away from cities, Mega industrial parks

Large ecosystems around industries, Technical/engineering skill

requirement
Technical education for demographic dividend, Scale, Factory
approach, Leverage ICT and IoT

Global access, Local jobs, Local prosperity

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START-UP INDIA
Many challenges in country = Many opportunities

Frugal innovation solve local problems, take the solutions to rest

of the world
ICT will enable solutions in unorganized sector
Bring non-formal skills into technical education ecosystem; many
entrepreneurs are failures at formal education
Give need-based technical education to potential entrepreneurs
to help them start-up and scale there is a lot of talent out there
Problems out there have to be understood before solutions can be
found being in touch with society, Let Universities become
Venture Capitalists
Involve young successful entrepreneurs in creating
entrepreneurial ecosystem they have a Just Do It attitude
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What kind of technical

skills?
Digital India
ICT (through higher education)
Diffusion of ICT
Growth management for scale

Make in India
Process technologies
Domain knowledge (specialized higher education)
Vocational technical skills

Internet of Things
Cutting edge technical knowledge (through research)
Vocational technical skills (for accelerated diffusion)

Start-up India
Street smart skills (exposure to local problems)
Ability to apply technical skills to create innovative solutions
Ability to package solutions for export and scale them
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What should we
measure?
We should bother as much about how many
societal problems we have solved as the
number of PhDs produced
We should worry as much about how many
entrepreneurs we have created as how
many students got placed in Tier-1 companies
We should be proud about how much we are
reaching out to the rural areas as how many
top ranked students joined us
many more questions to ask and change
how we measure ourselves
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Frugal Innovation

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