vision & mission

Vision Document for BettRe:

Research is a type of study that focuses on a specific problem and aims to solve it using scientific methods. Research is a highly systematic process that involves both describing, explaining, and predicting something.

“two obligations – to relentlessly deliver what customers desire and to observe the law.”

Various countries economies will have to innovate enough in order to raise the standard of products that are being built in those countries.

Innovative products and services, defined by products and services which have intellectual property associated with them, will require highly educated personnel.

Encouraging students to publish original research papers in peer-reviewed journals, and to file patents, we give discounts on educational loans and scholarships for their research output.

“This is our differentiator.”

A world leading, competitive economy in India means that companies with better profitablity numbers would be essential. This implies that they will have to make products and services which are desired by the rest of the world. Superior, competitive, better products will need more research and development work to be done and that will need Indian students to chase their core subject for longer periods of time and they will need to commercialize their research for longer periods of time as well.

Support needs to be given to Indian students to build products in India which are needed by the Global market and not just the Indian market. The Indian market is simpler in nature and it’s focused on roti,kapdaa,makaan, padhayi.

US industry – academia – student collaboration is quite enormous. Industry encouragement to students and to universities is very high.

The government might be required to sponsor companies which are new. Non dilutive grants need to be enumerated and channeled to startups. Funding to companies needs to be channeled which is essential for the government to support.

The government will have to learn to trust Indian startups with grant funds such that they are able to drive

Students need to understand that inventiveness has its rewards. And it needs to be ingrained into the education system from ground upwards that this is how it works. This is how the world works. Inventing stuff has to be given the presitge that it has in the US.

Revenues:

One part of the revenue will be crypto sales.

One part of the revenue will be corporate sensitization of Intellectual Property. This is an IP service to the corporate sector.

One part of the revenue will be from students who want to go abroad

Students who go abroad will be given concessionary rates.

Total product encouragement for R&D will be done in the theme of the product.

Cryptocurrency reward for publications and patents.

If you publish in impact factor journal you get so many crypto.

If you patent then this is what you get in terms of crypto.

If you commercialize your research then you get this N number of crypto.

Counselling for students to access study abroad programs.

Financial access to loans.

Indian students are spending

According to industry body ASSOCHAM, over USD 13 billion is spent per annum by about 450,000 Indian students for higher education abroad. Over 90% of students who sit the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) entrance examinations are rejected due to mere capacity constraints. 40% of these opt (and pay) for studies abroad. To get a better understanding of the financial implications, one must compare tuition fees for both options: An IIT student pays an average fee of USD 120 per month, while students opting for studies in Australia, Canada, Singapore, the US and UK spend as much as USD 5 000 in monthly fees.

“Over 150 000 students every year go overseas for university education, which costs India a foreign exchange outflow of USD 10 billion. This amount is sufficient to build more IIMs and IITs,” as ASSOCHAM President Venugopal Dhoot explained. Study abroad, according to the report, is clearly not the first choice for many Indian students. The compelling reason is the lack of capacity in Indian institutions. Dhoot’s formula for reversing the trend is simple: India must build a series of quality institutes with public-private partnerships and deregulate higher education.

Additionally:

Ideas – intention to register this in SFO, intention to drive “cognitive discipline” (i.e the drive to get better at specific lines of thinking, by avoiding social media ), intention to drive “hey – have you looked at *open source * knowledge” – for example my driver’s kids in Bihar needed guidance to 1. Learn Python and 2. Look at Khan Academy which is a wonderful source of knowledge in Hindi — so “hey – have you looked at this open source knowledge”

Intention to make videos of interviews of scientists in their laboratories in US/ India / EU and take those to the masses in simple English

ideas – mentorship platform (there are a LOT of them)

Intention to drive mentorship for SMB’s tech upgradation needs + capital for tech upgrade

Intention to drive R&D commercialization – which means that Indian hardware and software products need to be “encouraged” to hit global markets — creating the SBIR and STTR programs for India – Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs

Intention to enable kids in villages to access content from top scientists globally

Intention to “market” inventing /patenting and make it a “thing-to-do” in India

In India as of now – unlike in the US / China – tech adoption is much slower (market is poorer) and also Inventing is not a popular activity as it is in the US. So – how does one popularize inventing as an activity to do? Patenting is not an activity in the popular imagination of things.