Monday, September 30, 2019

Kerala Tops NITI Aayog's School Education Quality Ranking, Uttar Pradesh At The Bottom


Kerala Tops NITI Aayog's School Education Quality Ranking, Uttar Pradesh At The Bottom

All seven union territories have shown an improvement in their overall performance scores.

The government think tank, NITI Aayog, has released the School Education Quality Index (SEQI) which evaluates the performance of states and union territories in the school education sector. With this index, the government identifies the strength and weakness in school education and takes required correction measures like policy interventions to rectify them.Kerala has emerged on top among 20 large states in terms of quality of school education, followed by Rajasthan and Karnataka, while the most-populous Uttar Pradesh was ranked at the bottom position during 2016-17.

For ease in comparability, the states have been categorized as small and large states. The union territories have been categorized separately.

Ranking | http://social.niti.gov.in/edu-new-ranking
 
Report | https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2019-09/seqi_document.pdf
 
Presentation | https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2019-09/SEQI-Presentation-for-Website_1.pptx
 
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Friday, September 27, 2019

AICTE tells institutes to share patent rights with students for on-campus inventions


AICTE tells institutes to share patent rights with students for on-campus inventions

In case of a dispute, a five-member panel will take a final call on the patent ownership.

New Delhi: In a significant move, the AICTE has made it mandatory for academic bodies to share patent rights with a researcher if the facilities of the institution are used while developing a product or a technology.

The Intellectual Property Right (IPR) norm is outlined by the All India Council of Technical Education's it its new policy --National Innovation and Start-Up policy for Students and Faculty of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)--issued recently.

The policy by the AICTE, the technical education regulator under the HRD Ministry, has been developed for the first time and is aimed at facilitating the ministry in bringing uniformity across HEIs in terms of intellectual property ownership management, technology licensing and institutional startup policy.

Seen as an inventor-friendly policy, it also entitles students/researchers/ faculty members to sole ownership of patent rights if the product is developed without using any of institution's facilities and funds and work has been conducted outside work hours.

In case of a dispute, a five-member panel will take a final call on the patent ownership.

"When institute's facilities or funds are used substantially or when product or technology is developed as a part of a curriculum or an academic activity, IPR is to be jointly owned by inventor and the institute. They could together license the product or IPR to any commercial organisation, with inventors having the primary say," the policy said.

"However, an institute may not be allowed to hold any equity as per the current statute, so SPV may be requested to hold equity on their behalf," it added.

A special purpose vehicle, also called a special purpose entity (SPE), is a subsidiary created by a parent company to isolate financial risk.

"If one or more of the inventors wish to incubate a company and license the product to this company, the royalties would be no more than 4 per cent of sale price, preferably 1 to 2 per cent, unless it is pure software product, the policy said.

"If it is shares in the company, shares will again be 1 pc to 4 pc. For a pure software product licensing, there may be a revenue sharing to be mutually decided between the institute and the incubated company," it added.

On the other hand, if product is developed by innovators not using any institute facilities, outside office hours (for staff and faculty) or not as a part of curriculum, then product IPR will be entirely owned by inventors in proportion to the contributions made by them.

"In this case, inventors can decide to license the technology to third parties or use the technology the way they deem fit. If there is a dispute in ownership, a minimum five membered committee consisting of two faculty members, two of the institute's alumni or industry experts and one legal advisor with experience in IPR, will examine the issue," it said.

According to the policy, the institution's IPR cell or incubation centre will only be a coordinator and facilitator for providing services to faculty, staff and students and will have no say on how the invention is carried out, how it is patented or how it is to be licensed. 


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Thursday, September 26, 2019

India has advances four places of the 44th position in terms of Digital Competitiveness in the World


India has advances four places of the 44th position in terms of Digital Competitiveness in the World

IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2019



Now in its third year, the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking measures the capacity and readiness of 63 economies to adopt and explore digital technologies as a key driver for economic transformation in business, government and wider society.


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