Innovation begins by unbiased thinking and asking questions, that's what was believed by nineteenth century economist JA Schumpeter.

Schumpeter's ideas of creative destruction as the basis of innovation of copy the innovation of many economists over the years. He believed that the purpose of innovation was to create a new insight, new vision and solutions to problems and that to replaces his million solutions with better one's can stay free from ideal weight and excel through competitive challenges.

Individual, systems and organizations that continue to renew themselves stay flexible, dynamic and resistance against weakness and decay. Will similar principles of innovation help India re-invent its economy?

The true success of innovation can only come about if it results in a paradigm shift. To introduce new ideas in a system requires government, academia, industry and a common citizen to work together. In a country of a billion people, how can such cohesive mindset shift take place, how can a million ideas in deep be implemented to uplift the entire country.

To create an ecosystem for innovation, the National Innovation Council has created a structure that should help implement innovative ideas through out the country. The framework of the council will consist of- State level councils, Sectoral Innovation councils, Inclusion Innovation Fund, Innovation Clusters, Innovation centers in Universities, National Innovation Portal, Awards and Competitions and International Collaborations.

Sam Pitroda comments, "We are recommending Innovation councils at State level, Innovation councils at Sectoral level, on textile, diabetes, transportation, nanotechnology, bio-tech, genetics, all of these verticals will have domain experts because they know their subject, we don't, you know these things are very complex, someone who has spend 30 years in bio-tech has a different perspective of the world than I have. I have a very narrow view of world based on IT that's all. So we need to get all these domain experts to help us in preparing road map for the future, so we going to set up lots of councils. Ultimately my goal is to make sure that thousands and thousands are involved in this movement. I see this as a movement; I see this as an opportunity to change our mindset. We will see what happens."

A country of nearly six hundred million women, India even 60 years after independence is battling with issues of illiteracy and health when it comes to women and the girl child. Can innovation alleviate these largest social problems? We put these questions to our experts.

Anil Gupta adds: "The first was we need to empower women and children with knowledge through better technology. It is not just about educating children and through better technology to make education accessible but also women, the great change agents in any societies. We must empower our women too."

To empower people and create massive change that permeates through our society is what the decade of innovation is all about, but to bring about some change we need inspired ideas and inspired action. But how difficult is it to spread fresh thoughts through our complex social matrix and what could be the possible solutions.

Sam Pitroda says, "Lets take the scenario from two perspectives; one from government and my perspective which is to say connect two hundred and fifty thousand panchayats to broadband, connect 2500 municipalities to broadband, give everybody UID, get GIS map out through out the country, computerize all our court cases, connect all over universities, schools, libraries, hospitals to broadband network, develop lots of applications, provide secure network and provide this infrastructure. Second perspective is a young hot-shot software guy, what can he do with this platform and what does it mean to consumer/citizen."

Examples of people finding simple solutions as per their convenience is indicative of the fact that India’s larger issues like health care can also be improved through innovation. It now remains to be seen of bio-technology, another medical innovation can actually address the needs India has.

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw adds: There are wonderful ways to innovate, when it comes to even developing a basic health care system in our country I do believe that we can avail of modern technologies, IT and many many other very exciting new technologies like the telecom revolution that has brought about the huge mushrooming of tele-connectivity through mobile phones, you know we can just do so many things and I believe that mobile health is one such innovation that we should really be focused on to really plugged this huge deficit that we have in providing health care and basic health care to our citizens.

In our own space of bio pharmaceuticals, drug discovery is today a global challenge and I think again India take what it requires in terms of the diversity, in terms of our genomic database, the kind of diversity we face in terms of our diseases and what have you. And I think here is where drug discovery is something that India must embark on and we must embark on affordable drug innovation because this is what is going to help us to address this enormous health challenge."

India is pool of talented young students and professionals their entrepreneurial zeal and innovative ideas, these are some of our biggest assets as a country but how can these resources be harnessed? The National Innovation Foundation seems to be working on mapping these talented young people to that end.

Anil Gupta suggests, "We will map the creative mind of this country in next few years and keep on updating our knowledge. Can you imagine no where in the world has it happened, in the history of civilization it has not happened, that somebody would have tried to map the creative mind of the entire civilization society like India but it is possible."

Mapping creative mind and making use of those ideas for society, these are new suggestions and new methods. Yet the key to implementing these ideas will be to keep an open mind and take calculating risk, Sam Pitroda seems to be inspired to take on the challenge.

Sam says, "There are lots of challenges, there are too many challenges but you can't worry about it, you to be conscious of it, but if you want to do something big , you got to think big, if you don't think big, it doesn't interest me and my little things don’t interest me, I am too old for it. This is a big idea, nobody in the world has done this and to do this for billion people is romantic, to do this for million people it’s ok. So I think you got to be passionate about it, you got to believe in it, you got to drive, we have lots of talent in the country, there are lot of young talent so how do we put all these pieces together. We do not have all the answers, we don’t know how its going to unfold but we have a vision. I know exactly how it is going to look like three years from now,is very similar to what I had visualized in telecomm."

From the telecomm revolution to the Innovation movement, Sam Pitroda’s journey is being full of hope and dreams for tomorrow’s India. How far does the decade of innovation really takes us we need to wait and see.

Interviews & Script: Sharmila Bhowmick, CNBC TV18

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