The Pattern Institute

Culture of Knowledge and Innovation

There was great amount of emphasis on culture of knowledge and innovation in the Indic period. Our region experimented with several methods of knowledge assimilation and transmission, intuitive methods of connecting with knowledge, as well as methods for retention, delivery, and applications.

Somewhere along the way we lost that inspiration. Without going into the reasons for such a decay, let us now be more focussed on how to bring back the glory of intellectual capital. There is no point in talking about the glories of the past or regrets, nor there is anything to be achieved in merely being anxious and hopeless of our future. There is also no point in being agitated, lethargic, and procrastinating in the current frame of things. What we need is a mindful engagement in the process of establishing an order of knowledge, thought processes, and strategic translation of the knowledge to tangible benefits for mankind and universe.

INNOVATION implies that which:
(uthbhavakara) = CREATES, STARTS A BEGINNING
(uthkarshakara) = ENRICHES, BRINGS IN PROSPERITY
(bhUtha-bhAvodhbhavakara) = BENEFITS, IN TANGIBLE WAYS
(visarga) = EXPURGATES, TO ELEVATE

This Indic age wisdom on innovation is an established process of research and development in the modern age too. A culture of knowledge and innovation implies getting involved in inquiry, ideation, incubation, and institutionalization of concepts that create a beginning. It must be an idea that enriches as many ‘others’ as possible by bringing in tangible benefits. The ideas and concepts that translate to tangible things must also be able to expurgate lower things to take us up forward and upward.

Economically advanced nations become so only through this process of knowledge and innovation. But it is also seen that mankind adopts the same process of innovation for negative and selfish goals. Selfish interests tend to enrich through destruction, directing benefits only to a select few, and often purging lofty ideals.