ms-94 mba assignment july dec 2010 Question 5

5. Explain in brief the various sources of procuring technology information. Discuss the advantages of any two of the information sources.

Technology information dissemination through:

• Selling CD-ROM
• Intranet
• Internet
• Hard Copies
• Publicity

·         Seminars & Workshops

Technology Information Services

The TIFACLINE Services has been reviewed in the context of Data Information Service available on INTERNET and it has been decided to provide technological services concentrating on customer services rather than database generation.

TIFAC Library

To facilitate and foster the flow of scientific and technical information through the formal channel, TIFAC Library continued to support the enhanced requirement of scientists and users. In addition, 56 journals including specialised serials have been subscribed.

TIFAC News

With a view to disseminate information on the various activities of TIFAC, three issues of newsletter have been broughtout. The circulation of the newsletter is about 5000 amongst R&D institutions, academic and industrial sectors.

IPR Bulletin

These bulletins interalia covered WTO’s third Ministerial Conference, patent laws of Norway, litigation in patents, different case laws, Indian universities in patent filings, patenting of display devices and few case studies based on patents awarded in different areas. A case study based on US patent granted to an anti-diabetic herbal drug based on karela, jamun and brinjal was published in the bulletin. This attracted a lot of media attention and public interest and resulted in healthy debates at various forums.

Patent Awareness Workshops

Conducted IPR/patent workshops during the period through which more than 900 scientists and technologists were sensitized.

Patent Searches

PFC has provided patent search services to a large number of users from university, R&D institutions, government departments and private industry ever since the activity was started in the middle of 1996.

The Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), New Delhi, is a registered society under Department of Science & Technology. The main objectives of TIFAC include generation of Technology Forecasting / Technology Assessment Techno Market Survey documents, developing on-line nationally accessible information system, promotion of technologies and evolving suitable mechanism for testing of technology and enabling technology transfer as well as commercialization. TIFAC has so far produced more than 200 reports including the 25 document series on Technology Vision up to 2020 and 16 document series on S&T in different sectors.

Three major Technology Missions are being implemented by TIFAC in addition to promotion of about 50 Home Grown Technologies. Technology Forecasting (TF), Technology Assessment (TA) and Techno Market Survey (TMS) Studies After covering all the major sectors, which are of relevance to Indian in the earlier TMS Reports at aggregate levels, the current series of TMS Reports have a narrower and sharper focus. The new focus is on specific products, processes, and their applications and related services. The aim is to target technology linked business opportunities for products, processes etc. for which earlier TMS Reports projected very high demand. In keeping with the technologies of the information age, TIFAC has taken up the task of putting its wealth of more than 200 informative reports (Techno-Market surveys, TF/ TA, Vision 2020, Industrial Safety, Comprehensive picture of Science & Technology reports) in an electronic form and making them available on interactive sector wise CDROMs. The CDs are designed to have good interactive features, user friendly navigation, fast access to information, a powerful search mechanism, on line help, flexible switching between screens and a printing facility for reports. For industries these TIFAC CDs give competitive technologies and business opportunities, for R&D Institutions they give the areas of great demand and for the Strategic Planners they provide a roadmap.