1. DIMENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGIES AND SRI MATA VAISHNO DEVI UNIVERSITY
KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
INAUGURAL LECTURE BY
Prof. APJ ABDUL KALAM AT
SRI MATA VAISHNO DEVI UNIVERSITY
JAMMU
19 AUGUST 2004

2. EVOLUTION OF SOCIETIES Innovative knowledge- Intensive
Raw material and
Agricultural Products
Industrial
Products
Information
Products
Knowledge
Products
Innovative knowledge- Intensive
Products/Services
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Intelligence
Explicit Knowledge through networks
Productivity
Explicit Knowledge (Technology) added Products
Natural Products
Value Addition
CEO Conference
SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION
Agriculture Society
Industrial Society
Information Society
Knowledge Society

3. TECHNOLOGY : INTERFACES
Technology is a NON-LINEAR Tool
Technology can effect the most fundamental changes in the ground rules of economic competitiveness and is disruptive
Science is linked to Technology through Applications
Technology is linked to Economy and Environment through Manufacture
Economy and Environment link Technology to Societal prosperity
Economy
Societal
Prosperity
Manufacture
TECHNOLOGY
Application
SCIENCE
GN Ramachandran
Environment

4. DIMENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGY NEED FOR INDIGENOUS R&D
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION
PRODUCTION
TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE
QUALITY
COST EFFECTIVENESS
QUALITY
HUMAN
RESOURCE
Route ‘A’ KNOW-HOW
(?)
Fabricator Drawings
Production Process
Route ‘B’ KNOW – Why through Indigenous R&D
Designer Design
EFFECT OF R&D
% PROGESS IN TECHNOLOGY B
WORLD A
R&D
TIME