Thursday, February 22, 2007

Indian Special Export Zones - SEZ

One of the really brilliant unpatented ideas on development, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Job Creation Potential (JCP) is one that has come to senior Indian bureaucrats.
Get some sense of this brilliant idea here - http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/feb/21sez.htm

These suave, silent, often faceless, but immensely powerful shadowy figures, supposedly working on behalf of one sixth of the global human population, who only rarely pop out for selected media interviews, in a changing world where politicians are a bit bewildered, when faced with disapproval towards traditional ways of governing sections of society, and uncharitable, upstart voters.
Some cynical people may call it Land Grab Acts (LGA).
I am always amazed that while some of the most brilliant European and American inventors, when confronted with the enormity of their own brilliant ideas and the fruits of painstaking research, begin to reach out for the address and website, contact details of patent lawyers, of the Patenting Offices in Europe and USA.
But, somehow, the Indian bureaucrats have a different attitude, altogether.
They do not like to take any shortcuts to success.
Instead of seeking ways to patent their Economics Nobel Prize nomination potential idea, in cloak and dagger secrecy, before the competitor comes to get even a whiff of it, Indian senior bureaucrats, have an attitude of going straight for the jugular vein of the Indian legal system.
The attempt is of course, to ferret out and flourish, some old and forgotten colonial period legal acts to build as the foundation for their brilliant ideas.

The training years of Mussoorie, the colonial history of administrative expediency and the hours of study on the Indian legal and judicial system, on the checks and balances between Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, are then pressed to good use.
And yes, they do not bother about dumb stuff like patenting.
These smart people have a different business model.
A business model that brilliant European and Americans inventors have never heard of.
How to make money from the air.

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