White House Offers $1 Million Innovation Prize The Department of Commerce’s i6 Challenge will award cash to entrepreneurs who find innovative ways to commercialize new technology. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek May 3, 2010 04:10 PM The Obama administration is offering up to $1 million in prize money to entrepreneurs that can come up with innovative ways…
Towards Inclusive growth: ‘The Gospel of Dirty Hand’ K M Munshi, well known writer and former Food and Agriculture minister while addressing the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in 1952 elaborated his concept of The Gospel of Dirty Hand. He felt that when we extend the ideas, services and inputs to farmers or other people at community…
Government contests offer different way to find solutions for problems By Joel Achenbach Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 30, 2010 The U.S. government is giving away prizes. In seeking solutions to problems, it has discovered the magic of contests, or challenges — also known as open grant-making or open innovation. Or crowd-sourcing. Whatever you…
Just for an acre of biodiversity With several trillion dollars being invested in the infrastructural development in the country in the coming few years, it is inevitable that huge land mass would come under urban and industrial use. While environmental clearance is mandatory for all such projects, the silent death of all the biodiversity in…
Many more models of this kind remain to be developed. I foresee many changes in the coming years in the way markets may be organized. (A) Modular design: More and more products will be developed in modular mole giving users the option to combine these in the manner they wanted and that too by sourcing…
Lessons for young learners: Today, when most young people are ready to embark upon their future career, they might think that the time to learn is over and to practice begins. But nothing could be farther from truth. Let me tell you a story of learner who went to his teacher requesting to be taught. The teacher asked…
today after meeting several artists including my favourite and most respected Hakku Bhai Shah, i was convinced that instead of celebrating 600 years of ahmedabad only in a gallery ( i must say, i liked the idea to begin with), why not we make Ellis bridge the cutural street where performers, artists and all creative…
A student went to a famous teacher and requested to be taught. After looking at him, the teacher asked him to come after sometime. The student went after a month requesting admission, the teacher again told him to come after sometime. Slowly and slowly, a year and a half passed without student succeeding in getting…
Gandhi, Mao, and Grassroots yearnings for change It might appear paradoxical to many that while China abandoned the path shown by Mao Tse Tung in 1978 and turned towards a mixed economic model, violence is ruling the method of articulating local aspirations in many parts of the country. There are many insurgents/activists in economically depressed…