Avoiding the OEM Vs OED Conundrum in ‘Make In India’ Through Science-Fiction Prototyping

Abstract

This paper addresses a scenario that can unravel for the ‘Make in India’ program as a consequence of vulnerabilities seen in manufacturing-based economies in a globalized world, especially when a transition from the Fourth Industrial Revolution to Fifth Industrial Revolution is taking place. Subsequently, it proposes a Science-Fiction Prototyping-based pedagogy to be deployed in NEP’s flipped classroom as a risk-management strategy. The authors believe that such a strategy would help Indian manufacturing-sector to mature early, as well as assuage the emotional anxieties of its young workforce that is eager to find its place in the supply chains of the world.