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A Place to nurture Ideas!

Why do we need this?

All the Aspiring Researchers out there! This is posted by keeping all the undergrads in mind. 

Most of the Undergrads work in a project where PI drives the idea and we work mainly to execute them in the lab (Of Course, there is nothing wrong about it). Ever wondered how satisfying it is to execute your own idea? The ideas/interests that we might have accumulated over time are very vague or not concrete enough to execute them. I hope you can relate to this. I was thinking of a forum/platform where we can devote our time exclusively to build an idea (of someone) based on papers they might have read or the field that we are interested in. Building an idea takes time for anyone! If we try to put in cumulative efforts (different perspectives can help maybe!) solely to construct an idea of anyone, I think it would be great. This could also lead to the emergence of new ideas! The bottomline : Narrowing down to a specific idea and learn to frame hypothesis.

Strategy (maybe?)

  • Write up of things that excites them the most. (This can be Prerequisite to know the background of things they were excited about. We should think like a child)
  • Come up with a draft of any idea that they are interested to work to in. (Whatever it is they are deeply excited about-> For e.g Never ending Pen, Self driving Cars. 
  • We can walk through the following process
  • Dig in more papers related to idea -> 
  • At the end of each paper, think of how to formulate your own hypothesis related to our paper.
  • How to formulate hypothesis
  • Jot down Technicalities (All the Parameters -> Cost, Innovation, efficiency….)
  • Discussing existing news ideas can help us to connect the dots.
  • Find Sweet spots/drawbacks where you think you can work and build on it. (For e.g. Sequencing was a technique developed by Walter Gilbert with the help of single primer and this inspired Kary B Mullis to introduce another primer (Totally - two primers) which led to the discovery of PCR)


  • Once the idea is generated: 
    • Question everything
    • Generate many solutions for the question (no limitations)
    • Maybe reiterate the process



There are investors, incubators where they fund your idea and help you in scaling the idea ( The process of going from 1 to 100).  The process of going from 0 to 1 which is to generate a concrete idea is something difficult and this is where this kind of portal/forum can help. The reason behind citing this as difficult: There is nothing insufficient in our abilities I think we may not have worked as a team to gather different perspectives. The creative spark happens over several iterations! I think this will be exciting.

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