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Invitation in Discourse

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Apart from the core laboratory works involved in innovations, there are many strategic aspects which seriously impact success of an innovation. The strategic decisions often involve dealing with several external factors as well, like funding agencies, regulatory bodies, incubation sectors, market forces, and so on. Of late it has been realised that Irrespective of the technical success of an innovation, these learning experiences have their independent value. But unfortunately, these valuable learnings are not documented and don’t get transmitted to other innovators , innovation ecosystem builders, and the policy makers. Additionally, there are multiple factors in the innovation ecosystem, which need some amount of consensus and some multilateral approach. There is a need for raising public discourse in these matters. Keeping above in mind, the Council of Innovation Management initiates a community discourse, on its online platform. Original articles are invited for the CIM-Discourse, which will be published with due credits to the author, after review by the relevant experts.

Scope of the articles

The CIM-Discourse is open to accept articles in a wide range of topics, and in various formats. The articles may be related with the following matters -

  1. Lab2market research practices, such as need-gap analysis, project formulation, IPR protection, Technology scaling-up, Regulatory clearances, Technology transfer, etc.
  2. IPR and Technology Transfer
  3. Governance & Operation of incubation centers
  4. Innovation driven entrepreneurship
  5. Business Innovation
  6. Funding for innovation and incubation centers
  7. Industry academia interactions
  8. Logical analysis of any current or future trends in innovations and startups.
  9. Policy matters affecting innovations or entrepreneurship.
  10. Other related matters

Following are the basic guidelines for submission of the articles –

  1. The articles may be submitted by email to cim-discourse@innovationmanagement.in
  2. Each article must be original and free from copyright infringements.
  3. The articles may be in format of study-report, experience sharing / case studies, insights, or hybrid thereof.
  4. The articles may be based on observed experience, or include logical derivations from the known facts.
  5. Following are the character limits of the articles –
    1. Title: Maximum 50 words
    2. Abstract: Maximum 100 words
    3. Main contents: 500-1500 words
  6. The authors may be flexibile with format to convey their message in a convincing manner. However it is expected that the articles will carry a concluding message, derived from the contents.
  7. We encourage the authors to identify by name any person or organisation in a positive manner. However naming any person or organisation in a disparaging manner has to be avoided.
  8. The Articles on policy matters must be written with a paradigm of ‘ I am Ok, You are Ok’. Care must be made that criticism of any policy or practice doesn’t sound like the criticism of a person.
  9. The message of the articles must be aimed at some public good. The CIM-Discourse will not be a platform for venting grievances against any particular person.
  10. The articles must provide valid citations & references for presenting any matter which is not subject of common knowledge.
  11. The authors sharing their personal experience are encouraged to provide the traceable details of some witnesses, from whom the contents may be validated, if found necessary. The witness details may be given either at the end of the articles, or separately ( if the witness doesn’t want his/ her name to be made public ).
  12. The CIM-Discourse encourages divergent views on any subject and also welcomes articles iwth counter-views on its published articles
  13. All the views presented in the CIM-Discourse will be considered to be those of the authors in their individual capacity.
  14. The articles must be submitted as attachment to a submission mail , as PDF documents, along with a word file.
  15. Tables / flowcharts/ photographs etc must be embedded as images at the positions of their intended display.
  16. Tables / flowcharts/ photographs etc must be embedded as images at the positions of their intended display.
  17. Authorship declaration rules –
    1. The articles will go through a double-blinded review process. Hence, the authorship declaration must be done only at the beginning of the submitted article, and authors's name must not appear anywhere else in the article.
    2. There is no maximum limit on the number of authors.
    3. The authors must be mentioned in the desired serial for publication.
    4. The name of corresponding author should be followed by marking as 'corresponding author'.
    5. All correspondence with CIM will be done by corresponding author, while the first submission has to be emailed to all authors in CC.
    6. The authorship-declaration is to be done in the following format -
    1Name (1st Author)Email-idcontact number
    Affiliation (if any)
    relevant work experience
    2Name (Author-2)Email-idcontact number
    Affiliation (if any)
    relevant work experience
  18. The Council of Innovation Management shall reserve the rights to accept or reject any article, without assigning any reason thereof.
  19. The copyright transfer will be taken from the authors, after clearance in the review process.

Publishing in the discourse is now absolutely free of of any charges

  • Article submission charge : Nil
  • Article processing fees : Nil
  • Article publishing fees : Nil

Each article must be submitted along with a declaration of originality. The main body of the email for submitting the discourse article must contain the following-

Originality Declaration

Hereby I/we declare that the contents of the material being attached with this email for publishing in the discourse of the Council of Innovation Management is my/ our original work, and doesn't infringe the copyrights of anyone. We indemnify , and shall keep indemnified the Council of Innovation Management, its reviewers and its staff from any consequences arising out of any possible infringement of anyone's intellectual property rights.