tried to convince many Vice Chancellors and other senior scientists to start having courses on entrepreneurship for students from various scientific streams. among variosu ideas discussed were: a) if value addition in agriculture sector continues to be so poor as it is, then how will we help our farmers get better prices and income b)…
At a snail’s pace: pathways to the ‘other’ side While dealing with children we have often observed how to make them do some thing, we have to ask them to do the opposite. The rebel in fact resides in all of us. Most of us tame it as we grow, some don’t. I saw an…
a) key linkages are: —student to student -we want to increase what i call as innovation quotient of the country, so that no student just duplicates what has been done already, every young person odes some thing new, -kho kho, that i san idea germinated in one eng college may be taken up to next stage at another college and in a few…
SPEECH BY HER EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA, SHRIMATI PRATIBHA DEVISINGH PATIL, AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE FIFTH NATIONAL GRASSROOTS INNOVATION AWARDS New Delhi, 18th November, 2009 Speech Ladies and Gentlemen, I am really very glad to be here at this function where the work of grassroots innovators, young creative children and traditional knowledge holders…
Creating a National Innovation Foundation Economic Prosperity Rests on Diverse Technology Innovation SOURCE: SP The new administration should create a National Innovation Foundation—a new, federally funded organization whose sole responsibility would be to promote innovation. By Robert D Atkinson and Howard Wial | Monday, January 12th, 2009 | Share This | Print The problem of…
Paving the road for pursuing uncharted paths If you ask a young child whether she likes to hear good songs, see pictures or paintings or play sports, depending upon individual interest, you will find many who will say yes. But when you ask them, as to whether they would like to become a singer, an…
like ever in past, this time i am not sitting in NIF office day and night and working on ward book or other documents. I am working from home, teaching classes alternate day and trying to coordinate with colleagues remotely/virtually. I am not sure if the colleagues find it relaxing when i am away or…
Do we answer questions posed by our children? DNAHM25212 | 11/8/2009 | Author : Anil Gupta | WC :528 Every child in every school needs to understand how great ideas and innovations are born Reforming education is a task meant not only for school teachers and the education minister; it is something towards which we…
Anil Gupta speaks on behalf of those in villages and slums who have solved their local problems, ingeniously, without outside help. “I realized I am an exploiter,” he says: His own success is based on knowledge he learned from many people — people who remain anonymous and unacknowledged. If India wants to be a knowledge society,…
Mind on the margins are not marginal minds: Betting on green grassroots innovations or learning from Honey Bee network Ideas for talk: Why is that there so little content on web on green grassroots innovations all around the world except what honey bee network has done so far? Is it because finding unaided innovations by…