why should start-ups suffer so much in decade of innovation During last two years, despite umpteen rounds of discussion, it was realized that the new India Inclusive Innovation Fund ( IIIF) would only invest in existing companies which were engaged in innovative products and services for serving poor people. No doubt, the poor…
First Published: Mon, Jul 01 2013. 11 41 PM IST MINT Natubhai, from Gujarat, has been trying to develop a machine to pick cotton from dryland varieties of the crop for more than 10 years. To maintain his experimental spirit and to find the right answer to various questions, he has had to go through…
‘Take the Rs2,000, keep quiet, and thank god your girl is alive’–this can not be India in which we want to live. It is obvious that whoever thought that by merely making laws we will solve these problems was not close to reality. Police needs to be trained differently and also their responses to social…
There are four levels at which we can learn from the innovations whether in formal or informal sector: [a] artefactual, [b] analogic, [c] heuristic and [d] gestalt or configurational.
Route of 31th Shodhyatra – Wardha Maharatsra 5th May to 12th May 2013 Rout – Sewagram – Wardha to heti Kundi – Karnja Block the participation is by prior consent please, send mail to shodhyatra@sristi.org since numbers have to be kept in limit to ensure that local logistics dont go out of hand. we appreciate…
The demand for greater accountability of public systems is becoming more and more eloquent all over the country. Strangely and may be not so strangely, in a state with a political instability, some of the most interesting reforms have taken place. I am not suggesting that political stability reduces the incentives for bureaucracy to experiment…
Excellence, relevance, frugality and empathy: Young Gandhian Innovators While appreciating the contributions of young technology students invited to showcase their innovations at the second Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards recently at IIMA, Ms. Ela Bhatt, Founder of SEWA expected the youth to spread the Gandhian philosophy through their action. A large number of innovations recognised on…
we will have a workshop on grassroots Innovation tomorrow at IIMA in which a senior colleague and doctoral student Ms Riya sinha chokkakula will share findings of her research with the providers of knowledge and various other stakeholders, scientist, users, derivative innovators and others involved in scouting or diffusion of those innovations. Every research study…
Making horses drink water: Let corporations learn There is an old saying that you can take the horse to water but you can\’t make it drink. In the context of linkages between formal and informal sector, corporations and communities and even the state and society, it is not always easy that the larger and…
“Is race for generics shunning out innovation from Indian pharma sector?” well, It is true that many big R and D based Pharma companies have folded back their special purpose research vehicles, have reduced number of patents they maintain, reduced number of PhDs they had for the internal R and D and have gone aggressively in pursuit of profits from generics. At the same time, it…