Introduction: Industrial Shodh Yatras by young and disruptive minds have created a new dynamics of innovation in the GTU system. This was evident during  a meeting of faculty members of Automobile Engineering on 24th December 2011 at GTU seminar room. While more than 500 auto component manufactures and Auto majors like General Motors, Asia Motor Works, Ceat and Tata Motors' Nano have invested nearly Rs 10,000 cores in Gujarat, the ecosystem has not tapped the innovations being developed by students, researchers, small garage workers  till now. The state is expecting some Rs 16,000 crores investment in auto and ancillary domain by 2017. Only 500,000 IT Engineers at NASSCOM with average age of 28 year, contribute 10 % India’s export. Can we develop a frugal ecosystem of innovation management by involving people within auto industries, students and faculty members in Engineering Colleges and polytechnics and the mechanics in garages.  World leaders and   believers in open innovation pedagogy like P& G expect tha of the driver innovations are going to come from  the contributors outside their organizations. The academia and road side garages posses a great latent capacity to foster such need based innovation models. 

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