Innovation Hubs: Spaces for Igniting Minds for Education and Beyond

To remain globally competitive in the emerging activities of the ‘Knowledge Societies’ and to facilitate growth of new products, processes, businesses and opportunities for national prosperity, innovative approaches for creating competent human resources must be put in action. Innovations in the engaging educational activities offered by Science Centers and Science Museums are important to kindle an innovative spirit in young minds right from their early school days. The role of Creative hobby centers, Innovation hubs or Tinkering labs established in major science centers over the last few years need to be highlighted and discussed in this context.

In this presentation, the policies, infrastructure, support structure, operational details and membership of ‘Innovation Hubs’ set up in different Science Centers in India will be discussed.

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Innovating to Reach : Marketing ‘Expertise’

The reach of a science centre or science museum may be primarily targeted to various sections of the society for achieving greater breadth and higher inclusivity. However, established science centres may consider extending this reach in another domain by marketing their own technical expertise to organisations like Museums, Corporate houses and Government departments in need of such expertise for developing their own exhibits, facilities, travelling exhibitions, industrial expositions and campaigns. This requires an innovative acumen in building new areas of expertise and marketing them efficiently.

This presentation will describe the experience of the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), India in this area and show how expertise in various functional areas has been developed and marketed as a part of the council’s business plan. This has resulted in added revenue income for the council whereas the user organisations have found a ready resource to support their own activities.

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