Over 700 Sri Lankan Inventions on display at National exhibition at BMICH today
Over 700 Sri Lankan inventions would be on display from September 30 (today) to October 2 at the ‘SahasakNimevum’ national exhibition at the BMICH Colombo, organized by the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC).
“I am extremely delighted by the enthusiastic participation of leading private sector organizations to support our inventors by way of active sponsorships given to the SahasakNimevum – the first ever National Exhibition for inventions and innovations,” noted Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Minister of Research and Technology. SLIC comes under her ministry.
She said, in comments released by the SLIC, that this would be a good opportunity for the private sector to identify potential business ideas for investment, encouraging them to visit the exhibition and also find time to meet with the inventors.
This exhibition will be an equally good opportunity to spot talent, for companies who can think out of the box and who can solve technical problems in novel ways, the SLIC said.
In addition to the technical fields there are seven fields of national significance that will be considered for presentation of special awards. They are inventions that help make the differently abled independent, and inventions in the fields of Food, Energy, Environment, Teaching Aids, Human Safety, and Import substitution. The prizes and the trophies for these categories have been provided by the Brandix Group.
Explaining the rationale for partnering with the SahasakNimevum Exhibition, Brandix CEO Ashroff Omar said: “Empowering people is a corporate credo at Brandix. Supporting inventors is part of that commitment. We are looking at the possibility of supporting inventors with commercially viable ideas to take their inventions to the next level, because we are a Group whose success owes much to innovation and invention.”
The overall winners of each participating categories, School, University and Technical Colleges, Open and best commercialized will be presented with the prestigious DASIS award sponsored by Dialog Axiata. “We found a very strong strategic fit between our brand and the SahasakNimevum Exhibition. We are keen to see that the winners of the Dasis awards move forward with their inventions,” noted Dr Hans Wijesuriya, CEO of Dialog Axiata.
John Keells are presenting an award to inventions in the fields of Food and Energy, the Automobile field is sponsored by Associated Motorways while Watawala Tea is sponsoring the Teaching Methods and tools.
United Motors and Tokyo Cement have confirmed their interest to support a suitable invention to commercialize.
Student entries have been pre selected at provincial levels where over 1500 student had made presentations. All nine provinces of the country took part in the exhibition. According to a government circular almost all the schools must have an inventors club and encourage student inventions. It is not the quality of the invention that is important when looking at student inventions, but how the student has observed a problem in the environment, defined it and come up with a technical solution. This is a critical capability that needs to be developed in this exam oriented education system, SLIC said.
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