The
Department of International Studies and History organized a guest lecture on “Innovation
and International Business” by Professor Buckley from Sheffield University, UK.
His interests lie in International Comparative Management and on International
Business and Strategy.
Professor
Buckley stated that in this advanced age it is necessary to understand the need
to innovate. The countries of the world play to showcase their best
entrepreneurial drive and showcases their creativity via such credible and
noteworthy inventions. The main challenge for innovation lies in the fact of
lack of external and internal financial funding.
He
made the students to actively participate and ponder over what does it mean to
be innovative. He states that innovation is a key to improvement in quality of
life and stressed on its vital reason on the non-availability of infinite
resources and hence we must move towards sustainability. This would now
differentiate from the existing technology and increases efficiency in both the
product and process innovation. By virtue of this, one can observe that the
economy improves both in terms of micro and macro developments.
Further,
the idea was deconstructed by adding in three dimensions namely: Research and
Development, Invention ad Innovation. Finally, he attempts to define and informs
the audience that a critical element in Innovation is competition and it
highlights the newness. Steve Jobs states that it is when in a competitive
environment, can innovation distinguish between the leaders and the followers.
This implies that the leader is one who has the madness and craze to explore
and fill in the gaps by inventing and has to be bonded with a legal force by
the government which needs to monitor and promote it. Since the advent of
globalisation and nationalism, each nation attempts to spur its economic growth
and accelerate it. This might also lead to capitalist tendencies. The last
issue that was addressed was that of patent rights. This can be done by formal
dialogues on sharing of innovative practices and one needs to be bound by
ethical binaries and moral concerns.
The
lecture was followed by an engaging Q&A session. Professor Buckley was
presented with a token of appreciation by Dr Madhumati Deshpande followed by a
vote of thanks.
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