Research Methodology:
Introduction, Meaning of Research, Objectives of Research, Motivation in Research, Types of Research, Research Approaches, Significance of Research, Research Methods versus Methodology, Research and Scientific Method, Importance of Knowing How Research is Done, Research Process, Criteria of Good Research, and Problems Encountered by Researchers in India.
Defining the Research Problem:
Research Problem, Selecting the Problem, Necessity of Defining the Problem, Technique Involved in Defining a Problem, An Illustration.
Reviewing the literature:
Place of the literature review in research, Bringing clarity and focus to your research problem, Improving research methodology, Broadening knowledge base in research area, Enabling contextual findings, How to review the literature, searching the existing literature, reviewing the selected literature, Developing a theoretical framework, Developing a conceptual framework, Writing about the literature reviewed.
Research Design:
Meaning of Research Design, Need for Research Design, Features of a Good Design, Important Concepts Relating to Research Design, Different Research Designs, Basic Principles of Experimental Designs, Important Experimental Designs. Design of Sample Surveys: Introduction, Sample Design, Sampling and Non-sampling Errors, Sample Survey versus Census Survey, Types of Sampling Designs
Data Collection:
Experimental and Surveys, Collection of Primary Data, Collection of Secondary Data, Selection of Appropriate Method for Data Collection, Case Study Method.
Interpretation and Report Writing:
Meaning of Interpretation, Technique of Interpretation, Precaution in Interpretation, Significance of Report Writing, Different Steps in Writing Report, Layout. Types of Reports, Oral Presentation, Mechanics of Writing a Research Report, Precautions for Writing Research Reports.
Intellectual Property (IP) Acts:
Introduction to IP: Introduction to Intellectual Property (IP), different types of IPs and its importance in the present scenario, Patent Acts: Indian patent acts 1970.Design Act: Industrial Design act 2000. Copy right acts: Copyright Act 1957. Trade Mark Act, 1999
Question Paper Pattern:
• The Question paper will have TEN questions
• Each full question will be for 20 marks
• There will be 02 full questions (with maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
• Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer FIVE full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text books
1. Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques, C.R. Kothari, Gaurav Garg New Age International 4th Edition, 2018.
2. Research Methodology a step-by- step guide for beginners. (For the topic Reviewing the literature under module 2) Ranjit Kumar SAGE Publications Ltd 3rd Edition, 2011 Study Material.
3. Intelectual property, Debirag E. Bouchoux, Cengage learning, 2013.
References
1. 1.Research Methods: the concise knowledge base Trochim, Atomic Dog Publishing, 2005.
2. 2.Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper Fink A Sage Publications, 2009.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course students will be able to
1. CO1: Identify the suitable research methods and articulate the research steps in a proper sequence for the given problem.
2. CO2: Carry out literature survey, define the problem statement and suggest suitable solution for the given problem and present in the format of the research paper (IEEE).
3. CO3: Analyse the problem and conduct experimental design with the samplings.
4. CO4:Perform the data collection from various sources segregate the primary and secondary data
5. CO5: Apply some concepts/section of Copy Right Act /Patent Act /Cyber Law/ Trademark to the given case and develop –conclusions