Park mooted for Hubli's development into IT hub
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Dr Nagaraj L Hiregoudar, management professor and coordinator of Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park (STEP) of BVB College , has proposed a model for Software park called 'Z Software Park Model for Hubli' based on the Tsinghua Software Park , to attract software investments in Hubli.
Hiregoudar's Z Park draws inspiration from the International Conference on Management of Technology (IAMOT) he attended at Beijing , China .
It has all infrastructure to house 200 companies with office buildings, residential quarters and amenities like swimming pool, exhibition centers, internal transportation system.
At IAMOT it was resolved that technology management, innovation management, strategic management should be introduced as subjects at undergraduate courses, Hiregoudar said.
It was high time that technology was managed properly and strategies were developed to cope with technological advancements. Unless people at middle management and workers accepted quality standards, in government as well as private organisations, the desired results of total quality for the benefit of producers and consumers cannot be achieved.
The professor said that India had gained a reputation world wide as the largest provider of technical manpower and a number one in software development.
To encourage foreign investment, India should concentrate on excellent infrastructure in terms of land and air connectivity, clean and wide roads and flyovers, he opined.
Faster and pollution free modes of transport within and between cities were necessary, he said.
Taking on China
China had developed in Hardware Technology such as semiconductors, microchips. The Chinese were considered to be sincere, hardworking and service minded. Indians had to build such a reputation.
Another factor in China 's favour with regard to attracting foreign investment was that its law enforcing agencies performed their duties diligently and sincerely
The Indian government and people should work to strengthen the enforcement agencies, he explained. "Our advantage is that we have better English speaking and writing skills than the Chinese."
Hiregoudar said that a mechanism should be developed to commercialise research output from industry institution partnership.
Most of the product design and development in manufacturing was the fruit of strong ties between academic institutions and industries.
Market research
The output from institute-industry partnership could be sold to any entrepreneurs who intend to buy product technology.
The conference at Beijing concluded that there would be no point in technology developments and paper publications that do not have strong market research support.
At the conference, Hiregoudar, a management consultant for Malaysian Companies, presented the paper entitled "Employee Issues in the Implementation of ISO 9000 Quality System in Manufacturing Companies in Malaysia ".
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