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in Scientist’s Laboratory or anyone’s place of work while
accomplishing a Task.
A student’s task at trying to go through a learning process (not
conditioned by the assured income and the consequential strings
attached to it) must stand as distinctly different from an
employee’s job requirements, stipulated service conditions and
terms and conditions of employment to ensure a regular payment
assuring adequate earning power. Most of the time the academic
learning pursuits cannot be simultaneously part of an individual’s
activity to combine with the routinely carried out work schedules
under an employment.
Whether it is an employment by an employer or a self-
employment (which in the most general sense a preoccupation on
one’s own initiative) what is required is a compatibility of Job
requirement and job satisfaction. The required reconciliation
can come about as follows. If it is an employment by an
employer, the satisfaction of the employer must also be taken into
account by the employ if the employment must be tenable
durably. Unless the employee is exceptionally good, the employer
has the possibility of choosing among the several competitors to
the job. If one is dependent on the emoluments then on this score
the employee might be compelled to compromise on job
satisfaction. In the domain of education – a teaching learning
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the teacher –taught disparity builds up and widens. To start to be
an entrepreneur in this situation calls for innovation.

At whatever level an individual can stand up competitively as
a Resource Person, correspondingly an employment would be
possible.
This would be the reconciliatory stand possible in a
competitive world.
This requirement of having to develop human resources while
seeking the efficient management of the material resources is
itself beset with a complicated entanglement. It is so because the
very same people, who would be consumers, should be improving
themselves with the techniques of securing the resources for the
people.
Innovation would be the attribute for the strategy people device to
overcome any such entangled situation. Sometimes, humorously
stated it is a question of doing slightly differently, out of
necessity. One might find that a “break though” is claimed
precisely by doing slightly differently, and this might provide a
totally different insight than what one could have acquired by
following the line of well trained beaten track. A person who is
trying to be innovative proceeds only by the stage wise success
which can be sensed, and never carried away by over enthusiasm
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Research Development related to industrial production and
manufacture for the public market is a profit oriented enterprise.
And the learning pursuits of academic nature are mostly no-profit-
no-loss but individuals improve themselves to be resourceful in
the society. To distinguish the R & D activity from the later
academic activities, the description of “win-win” case is
appropriate, and for the later it is appropriately described as “no-
gain-no-loss” case.

DrChidamabaram.flv 28th minute through to29th --- 29:10
Research-Developments – Delivery Chain and the Per capita
Electricity Consumption

Surprisingly, the chemists did not consider it a possibility when
the research findings indicated that certain percentage of the
general public was much informed about the special subject
chemistry. This seems to point out a paradox that all the time that
the concern has been that public would not know much about
individual science subject so much; but the situation turned out to
be that chemists could not know how much the public knew about
chemistry, although the percentage of such people was marginal!
Apparently this lack of mutual understanding of the Scientists and
the Common Public at large, seems to be a kind of rapport that is
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importantly this does not seem to be much to do with poverty
alleviation and health improvement, but more viewed and
reconciled as non interference in the most positive sense.
However this communication gap seemingly not much of
consequence can be related to the more vital factors in the long
term and with much better insight as much as in the video clip to
follow, all the ills in the society were related to one single factor:
Per Capita Electricity Consumption. The situation that
warranted three parameters to be assigned as the reason by
UN could be logically reduced to a question of two parameter
dependence and with special reference to Indian scenario this
could be further simplified to just one parameter. This is an
innovative correlation and interpretation of statistical data, all
to do with science and technology for the context of
macroeconomic patterns. It should be obvious for economists
how much the macro economics and micro level economics are
interdependent and thus innovation in the Laboratories of
scientists and the process and product innovation efforts at
the R and D level are all resulting cumulatively in the gross
domestic indices of the Nation.
video-drch.ppt [Video Clip : duration 1 min 39secs]
From the original Video file Dr. Chidambaram.wmv [23th
minute to 24min 39secs]

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Talk on “Research and Innovation: Many Dimensions” at ISC
Session.
Chidambaram, 2012: DrChidambaram.wmv

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Annexure

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