A Srinivasa Bhat, Chief Consultant, B u s i n e s s   R e s e a r c h, India  

Can we build an Innovations Factory? Well, if research is the business - - innovations ought to be rolling out as products do from assembly lines. The assembly lines are in place if I may call the Innovation Consulting Modules as such. I have put some innovation prospects on the shelf as well. And there are quite a few subjects under research.

Authoritative subject knowledge and skill-set to research happen to be the critical factors required to evolve innovation prospects. While knowledge is acquired and happens to be subject specific, innovation-abilities required vary from project to project and can come from persons unfamiliar with the subject as well. As such, Business Research would need specific knowledge experts and also experienced persons with exceptional research abilities. The approach is to aggregate the skill-set as required for each project.

An association that compliments your pre-occupation: Typically, a Business Research 'Associate Innovator' is pre-occupied with his own occupation. He/she may be an independent consultant, academician, entrepreneur or even a professional senior executive (with necessary approvals).

Work with Business Research complements the Associate’s pre-occupations. The kind of work can only be expected to add to the experience & expertise of the associate. That, I believe should be a big motivation factor for any professional with requisite expertise to associate with Business Research apart from other considerations.

For an innovation to happen right set of people are required to work in synergy. In facilitating that we adopt and extensively use internet and associated technologies for carrying out research work and consulting services.

An ideal Business Research Associate Innovator -- is a person; with an urge to challenge the very knowledge he/she has learnt, with a mind that belittles research, with an experience of successful experiments, and with an attitude that says -- it is possible.