Importance of Research at End User Level: Case Studies

Abstract

Innovative ideas cannot be explored without research and experiments. However most research end up at laboratory level with some presentations and publications. Although we see a growth in computer based research at local universities only a small fraction of them had actually reached the end users due to some gaps that exists between research and commercialization. In this paper few examples of successfully research outcome that had reached the end users in Sri Lanka would be presented highlighting the importance of the beneficiaries than the research itself. Also how to bridge this gap to take the implementations of important innovative ideas to end-users would be looked at. Selected case studies in agriculture sector, dengue alerts, simulators, finger printing etc. would be presented.