Innovation Acquisition Services - IAS

• History
• Objectives
• Plan of actions
• Timeline
• Goals
• Staff
• Further Information

History

Innovation is the ability to use knowledge, creativity and experience in technology or management to develop new products, processes or services to cater the market's need and to increase economic value. Furthermore, it includes improving technology, using of technology and technology transfer, and designing industrial and engineering products to create innovation.
National Innovation Agency (NIA) was created as an autonomous organization under the supervision of Ministry of Science and Technology, operation under the policy guidance of a National Innovation Board.

Over the past year, NIA activities have intended to provide fully-efficient innovation management system to promote both technical and financial supports for the development toward innovation-based business. Facing with the globalization of the economy and technology and international change, solely inbounding knowledge from R&D, inventions, and patents is insufficient for NIA to manage innovation at commercial level. As a result, NIA sees the need to ally with outside resources to speed up innovation development. This will in turn increase development of innovation at industrial level.

Objectives

To develop innovation projects through partnership with organizations and institutions in several countries and network with organizations and institutions in Thailand with an aim to promote technology transfer and use of existing knowledge from research and development to develop innovation at business level in the quickest and most efficient way.

Plan of actions

1. Establish IAS Board to supervise the management of innovation acquisition
2. Indicate industries to develop innovation project
3. Develop innovation projects based on existing technology and expertise from other countries in combination with inbound experts
   

Timeline

1 March 2005- 28 February 2006

Expected results

• Strong partnership with experts, institutions, enterprises, or organizations from several countries (at least 10 partners)
• Strong Networking with researches, inventions, and patents both in and outside the country
• Collaboration R&D, inventions and patents both in and out side the country at commercial level
• Creation of at least 20 innovation project proposals
  

Staff

Further Information
Dr. Atthawit Techawiboonwong
IAS Assistant Secretary
National Innovation Agency
Tel. 02-644 6000 ext 108
Fax 02-644 8444
email : atthawit@nia.or.th