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how to learn from creative communities and innovators

welcome beginning, i only wish that this quest will build upon 25 year old quest #honey #bee #network pioneered through #shodhyatras, shodh sankals, survey of innovations through summer search through young students, patent reviews etc., Later National innovation Foundation Chaired by Dr R A Mashelkar has given a much wider platform to such nascent ideas.  The www.techpedia.in by SRISTI has…

Excellence, relevance, frugality and empathy: Young Gandhian Innovators

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…

india needs new models of drug development

“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…