2. New strategies, concepts, ideas (products, Services and models) and
organizations that meet social needs and create new social relationships
or collaborations
Innovations that are not only good for society but also work to
enhance individual‟s capacity
It is not about introducing new types of production method or exploiting
new markets in themselves, but creating a necessarily shared value, and
deals with mission to improve the welfare of individuals and communities
through employment, consumption and/or participation

3. Social Demand
Innovations
•Innovations responding to social demands that are traditionally not addressed
by the market or existing institutions and are directed towards vulnerable
Groups in society
•They have undertaken development of new approaches to tackle problems
affecting Youth, elderly, migrants, socially excluded etc
Societal
Challenge
Innovation
•Social challenge perspective focuses on innovations for society as a whole
through the integration of the 3 verticals of social, the economic and the
environmental changes.
Systemic
Change
Innovation
•Work towards changes in power, beliefs, etc
•This is achieved through a process of organisational Development and
changes in relations between institutions and stakeholders.

5. • Large number of people shifting from villages to cities
• Majority of migrants, unskilled labour, with no means of
sustenance
Innovations
• There is a gap of services offered to migrants such as
package food, cheap shelters which can be
addressed by social innovation.
• Training of such migrants, so as to accommodate the
growing demand of industries
Migration
• Poor Workforce quality, funding and infrastructure in
education sector
• Role Learning V/s Problem Solving
• Conflict in curriculum of state & central board
Innovations:
• Practical education
• innovation in Mid-day meal schemes
Education

6. •Water supply and sanitation in India continue to be inadequate
•114 cities dump untreated sewage and partially cremated bodies
directly into the Ganges River
•Many villagers in Rajasthan have to travel 5 KM to get drinking water for
day.
Innovations:
•Water conservation techniques such as water level indicators, sewage
treatment and bio waste electricity are some areas for social innovation
Water
•Lack of awareness about renewable & alternate source of energy
•Inferior and outdated technology a roadblock in adoption of new
technologies
•Annually about 55 million tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) and 38
billion litres of sewage are generated in the urban areas of India
Innovations: There is a gap in awareness and availability of waste
managers who can manage and utilize the waste to generate
electricity efficiently
Renewable
energy

7. •Poor management of information between markets and producer(rural)
leading to high costs
•Large number of middlemen, leading to decreased benefits
•Low linkage of remote villages & farmers to the buyers, leading to low
payments for produce
Innovations:
•Social innovation may occur to generate rural specific web contents and
provide intermediaries (Computer kiosks) to handle information request from
rural population
•e-chaupal
Information
system
•Innovations
• Developing mobile apps which can significantly benefit rural India through
social innovation.
• Mobile phone updates on diseases via SMS.
•Advance warning of a natural disaster/weather forecast through mobile
phones
•Nano- Ganesh: Use mobile phones to remotely control irrigation pump sets
located in far-off location
Mobile
Services

8. Life Conditions Trends
•India ranked 66 out of 88 countries in Global Hunger Index ,2008
•270 million people below poverty line in 2011-12
•As per a World Bank 2010 report, 400 million people in India with an income less
than $1.25 per day
Innovations
• There exist a gap where consultation for complete nourishment according to
age can be provided at individual level/Community level at cheaper costs
Poverty:
•Industrial employment is a major concern
•Lack of skilled labour
•Specific needs of industry/company unmet and a need to develop a
specialized workforce
Innovations:
•Gaps exist at skill development level which has to be bridged by social
innovation at minimum cost and widespread implications.
Employment:
•According to a 2005 report, 42% of India‟s children below the age of three were
malnourished
•Although India‟s economy grew 50% from 2001–2006, its child-malnutrition rate
only dropped
Innovations:
•Social innovation problem is to develop a programme so as to keep child
nutrition in check at the under-3 age group.
Child
Malnutrition

9. •Adverse geographic location, absenteeism and inadequate training
of health workers
•Low perceived need for immunization
•Shortages of healthcare providers, poor intra-partum and new-born
care, diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections
•Lack of availability of basic medical infrastructure to majority of
population
Innovations:
•The gap is to provide infrastructure at low cost so as to cover wider
population range through limited set of resources
Health
•70% of Indian population engaged in agriculture
•Dependence on monsoon for irrigation needs
•Most farmers still focusing on subsistence farming
•High fragmentation of lands
Innovations:
•Availability of micro-finance through Grameen Banks
•Global Easy Water Products (GEWP) an affordable micro-irrigation
and water storage format for small-plot farmers in India.
•Solar Powered Irrigation Pumps
Agriculture

10. Gap Indicator
Nasscom - Mckinsey Report
Social Need :
Education Area
Role Learning =>
Problem Solving
Gyan Lab USP:
• Research Driven Curriculum
• Connect of Class room theory to Real world Applications
• 100% Tolerance Policy  Freedom and Liberty
• Constructive & Cognitive Pedagogies
• Curriculum Benchmarked with globally Acclaimed standards
• Social values, national pride and moral skills along with regular
education.
• Programmes Available for students up to K-12 Level
PISA+ Test
Currently (2005) only 25%
of technical graduates
and 10-15% of general
college graduates are
suitable for employment in
the offshore IT & BPO
industry

11. FORTIUS (Stronger)
Fortius is dedicated program
covering fields of science,
technology and pre-vocational
practices aimed at providing a spark
to future Research Scholars and
Scientists by actively turning them
towards Research & Development
right at the school level.
Grades/Classes: 3rd – 9th (7 Levels)
CITIUS (Faster)
Citius is a dedicated program
covering the curriculum of
mathematics including additional
exercises on speed mathematics
and trick mathematics aimed at
helping them throughout their life
especially in competitive exams such
as ISEET, CAT, etc.
Grades/Classes: 3rd – 9th
Long Term Programme (Year Long)

12. ALTIUS I (Higher)
Altius I Program is aimed at creating sharp
minds with proportional exposure in the
fields of Technological Electronics,
Mechanics, Robotics and much more.
Grades/Classes: 4th – 6th
ALTIUS II (Higher Still)
Altius II, with its focus on Robot building
activities, takes up innovative and
challenging ideas to the school kids and
converts them in to solutions in the form
of working robots or engaging science
experiments.
Grades/Classes: 4th – 9th
Long Term Programme (Year Long) Contd.

13. Week Long Programmes  Customized
Workshops
Kidprenerus:
• To sensitize the entrepreneurship skills
in kids
• Market Structure, Company Details,
Product and Services, Marketing, Sales
& Distribution, Operations,Organization
and Personnel
• VC pitching
One Day Programmes
• Model Development
• Team Work
• Peer to Peer learning
CSR Commitment
• Free Labs for Socially & Economically Backward Classes
• Fee Waivers for the kids belonging to EWS
• CSR Activities financed by part of profits of Gyan Lab
Short Term Programmes

14.  Any social innovation takes six stages that take ideas from
inception to impact.
 These stages are not always sequential (some innovations
jump straight into „practice‟ or even „scaling‟), and there
are feedback loops between them.
 They can also be thought of as overlapping spaces, with
distinct cultures and skills.

15.  All innovations start with a central idea, often prompted
by an experience or event or new evidence which brings
to light a social need or injustice
 Some basic triggers of innovation are:
› Crisis
› Efficiency saving
› Poor performance
› New Technologies
› New evidence
› Urban Acupuncture
 For Gyan Lab these trigger were the theory oriented
perspective, with lack of focus on problem solving in
Indian Public Education System.

16.  This step consists of framing the right question and using a series of
methods for searching out and suggesting solutions
 These ideas can be generated through:
› Specifically designed platforms to encourage creativity and new ideas,
which includes public presentation platforms – such as competitions and
prizes, online platforms and idea banks.
› Others methods are to search solution from neighbouring fields, such as
the arts and product design.
 Gyan Lab chose the first mode, and participated in multiple
competition, and kept integrating the feedbacks in initial solution
 Other Methods in this area Used by Gyan lab were:
› User-led design.
› Re-designing services with users and producers
› Engagement of ex-users.
› Creative thinking methods
› Continuous improvement methods
› Quality circles
› Engaging citizens through media.

17.  The next stage involves concept testing through multiple stages
of rapid prototyping and related challenges:
› Feasibility of making the product
› Delivering the service
› How to deal with particular issues or pinch-points
› What the economics look like and how it could be cheapened.
 The driving principles at this stage are speed, keeping costs low,
tangibility and feedback loops from users and specialists
 General Activities Performed at this step are:
› Prototyping
› Public Pilots/ Beta Testing
› Grant and Support for early ideas
› Challenge Funds/ Prizes
› Incubation
 Gyan Lab was incubated under Manipal University, with focus on
scanning elements of existing model; design, development &
pilot testing.

18.  Sustaining an innovation based venture for a long term involves six
key things:
› A business model that runs parallel to the core idea
› A governance model that provides a clear map of control and accountability
› Sources of finance, both start-up capital and income streams
› A network and communications model – “Venture’s Relational Capital”
› A development plan for operational systems.- MIS, IT, Finance etc
 There is also a high probability of virtual feud between maximising
the spread of an innovation and the venture‟s own financial interest
 Gyan Lab on its part have been able to generate a viable financial
model by conscious efforts to balance financial viability with social
concerns.
 Some of the Key areas focussed upon by Gyan Lab to make the
venture sustainable are
› Business Model
› Business Strategy
› Ownership pattern
› Organization structure
› Relationship Capital

19. Scaling & Diffusion
 Organisations within the social economy have less compulsion to
organisational growth and more towards collaborative networking as a
means of sharing innovation
 The promotion of social innovation has tended to focus on the supply side
and how innovations can be diffused among service providers through
experts, intermediaries and collaboration
 Drivers of scaling and diffusion in social ventures include:
› Inspiration
› User Led Marketing
› Endorsement by regulators
› Distributed diffusion through public policy
› Global Diffusion
› Developing new markets
› E-Services
› Growth through people
› Diffusion through events
› Diffusion through Media/Web
› Growth through collaboration
› Social franchising
 Near term goal of Gyan lab is to reach out to 100,000 students by 5 years
and in a decade, they target 1 million students

20. Systemic Change
 Systemic Innovation involves changes to concepts and mind-sets as well as
to economic flows: systems only change when people think and see in new
ways.
 Mostly systemic changes are the result of slow but cumulative processes
entailing changing infrastructures, behaviours and cultures
 Systemic Innovation usually involves all four sectors – business, government,
civil society and the household.
 It can be suddenly pushed forward by a crisis, or a disruptive technology
 Gyan lab have its task cut out as it have entered the market at right time, a
time when Indian education system is going through a major overhaul with
possibilities of central curriculum for STEM.

21. Gyan Lab
Other educational
institutes

22.  Gyan lab should try to develop solution in regional language so as to
increase its reach in regional boards
 To maximize the reach of the innovation, prices have to be decreased by
continuous improvement in process and purchase
 It might benefit if it operates from some central location such as Delhi or
Mumbai so as to expand its reach
 Gyan lab should also focus on expanding their offering for all age groups in
K-12 school segment to cover complete schooling cycle in Indian education
system

23. Thank You