GDC Baramulla Organizes Talk on ‘Innovation: How to Overcome Classroom Creative Deficit’


Srinagar, Sep 17 (KNS): As part of an ongoing ‘Teacher Enrichment Program’ (TEP) sponsored under a flagship programme of UGC/CPE, Government Degree College, Baramulla organized a lecture on “Innovation: How to Overcome Classroom Creative Deficit” on September 16, 2020. The invited speaker for the occasion was Dr. Sheikh Fayaz, Innovation Researcher, Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy, School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hanzou, China.
At the outset, Prof. Mohammad Maqbool Rather, Principal, Government Degree College, Baramulla formally welcomed and felicitated the guest and tabled a concise account of the standing and position of the host college at state and national level. Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Rather emphasized on the significance and importance of establishing incubation and innovation centres in educational institutions. “The zeitgeist warrants teachers be flexible cognitively in order to allow and increment divergent thinking, creativity, and innovation”, said, Prof. Rather.
Dr. Sheikh Fayaz presented a detailed and scholarly overview of countries across the globe in terms of their position and standing vis a vis the innovation and creativity. He flagged and lucidly elucidated certain conditions, such as geographical conditions, cultural and institutional variations, shared mental models, system vibrancy, inclusive institutions, curiosity deficit, creative insecurity/risk investment, ignorance/arrogance, and knowledge gap that may increment or hamper the growth of innovation of countries and continents. He also asserted that a supportive ecosystem is a necessary condition for scaling up technology and diversity of ideas or thought processes. Dr. Fayaz while deliberating on the fundamentals of innovation emphasized that the most prominent feature of innovative enterprise is its economic value and marketability. He also stressed that technology and innovation may cause some countries be privileged and affluent while countries that do not show any tendency or taste for technology and innovation could potentially be at disadvantage given the changing spirit of the times. In addition, Dr. Fayaz tabled a set of characteristics to identify the innovation as well as an innovator(s) besides highlighting the enemies of innovation. He also enumerated the role and responsibility of different stakeholders including the state apparatus, intellectuals, technocrats, bureaucrats, etc., in the process of germinating, maintaining, and scaling up technology that eventually translates into creativity and innovation.
The lecture was followed by a healthy question-answer session in which queries/doubts raised by the faculty of the host college were satisfactorily answered/cleared by the invited guest.
Prof. Zafar Shadad, Convener, Incubation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Research Centre, Government Degree College, Baramulla introduced the guest and moderated the proceeding of the session. The session reasoned out with a vote of thanks offered by Prof. Parvez Majeed of Media Studies Department of the host college.
 

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