Sun Microsystems launches 'Open Innovation Portal' at IIT Delhi
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 19 February 2009, 01:07 IST
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New Delhi: Sun Microsystems has launched an 'Open Innovation Portal' at the Centre for Excellence in E-governance, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi with JNU and Knowledge Commons as collaborators. The portal (www.innovationcommons.org) was launched by Joe Hartley, VP of Global Education, Government, and Healthcare, Sun Microsystems and Prof S. S. Yadav, Head of Department, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. The objective behind the launch of this 'Open Innovation Portal' is to foster the development of participative innovation in society and to help transition the economy into an innovation economy. Speaking at the inauguration, Joe Hartley, VP of Global Education, Government, and Healthcare, Sun Microsystems said, "The innovation portal allows for collaboration between members of a society to foster innovation. The growth in the network economy is fueled by sharing and collaboration among communities interconnected by technology and driven by purpose. Sun also believes that sharing and collaboration in the Participation Age will stimulate innovation to help all participants from across the world grow and prosper." The 'Open Innovation Portal' will allow innovators from the scientific community, student community and from all walks of life to publish their innovations with no IPR encumbrances, for the whole world to benefit. It will also help others to add to an open innovation that has been published online, thus enabling the process of participative innovation. The Centre for Excellence in e-governance is an outcome of the MoU signed by Sun Microsystems and IIT Delhi in September 2006. One of the primary objectives behind setting up this Centre of E-Governance is to promote technology usage in the society.

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