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…
Seducing the Scientists: what can grassroots innovators do? There is worldwide indifference among the formal and institutional scientists about people’s knowledge and it ability to solve local problems. This indifference has only increased after short cut methods of learning from people, such as RRA/PRA gained currency worldwide ( thanks to donor agencies and world bank) and…
it was fascinating to see at a meeting organised by areca research foundation, vivekanand engg collge, campco -farmers\\\’ cooperatives which markets about ten per cent of the produce worth 700 crores; a variety of areca peeling machiens develoepd by individual innovators without any formal training buta lso some with such backgrounds. key learnings: a) if…
visited warangal, Andhrapradesh and talked to more than 500 students and faculty form Kakatiya university affiliated colleges. One of the new ideas which emerged was setting up of a Warangal District social venture fund. Prakash, an eminent educationalist and some other friends including the president of the asia’s one of the largest rural markets ( 1500 crores turnover) agreed to take initiative in this regard, thanks or…
Kindling/killing creativity of children: how to reform our school educational system Recently, we announced the Ignite 09 awards on the eve of Oct 15, 2009, the birth Day of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, celebrated as Children Creativity and Innovation day by the Honey Bee Network. Having received more than thousand ideas and innovations…